End of November Update

It's been a while since I've written. It's been a while well spent though.

November 11th, I took Becky to her first St. Louis Blues Hockey game. I scored some free tickets curtosey of my sister, Rebecca, who scored better seats for her and her boyfriend through her dad. It was a lot of fun. Becky and I are constantly busy these days and can't really find much time to spend together. It's unfortunate. Even more unfortunate, the Blues lost but! They did so in overtime, so at least we got a good game, a long shoot-out and a point in the end.

The weekend of November 12-14 I spent in Cape visiting my boyfriend who attends SEMO. I went down with Paul and Cody (mutual friends) but returned with Hailey. It was a nice trip over all. Tim's bed is not only completely uncomfortable but not fit for two people to sleep in and to top that off it was hiked up taller than I am! Obviously, I slept on the inside, closest to the wall for fear of falling out of the bed (a good five foot drop). Tim and celebrated our 1 year, 6 months early at Applebees were we got a yummy dish (which was unfortunately overcooked), watching Movies and snacking on junkfood. All in all, it was a good night. We also went to the Trail of Tears with tim's Roommate Ryan and his Girlfriend Caiti (which was wet and groggy), chucked a few rocks, found a picnic bench and ate lunch.

Caiti Rocks at Pudding Cups without Spoons

And Bollinger Park (which the weather cleared up for and was really nice), we played Frisbee (which I sucked at). Caiti and Ryan beat each other up with sticks, I annoyed Tim and as always Tim had to climb on everything.

Probably one of my favorite picturesof us :)

Ryan and Caiti fighting over a Frisbee

Last Week, Keri did my hair at her fancy-shmancy salon. It's all curly now. I've always always always wanted curly hair but never had the length or patience for it. Now that my hair is shoulder length I decided to try it again--so far, I'm fond of it. :)

Last weekend one of my sisters, Allison, and I went to her family's lake house out by Osage Beach. We spent the weekend watching Boy Meets World (we went through season 3) and scrapbooking (as well as shopping). It was a time very well spent and very relaxing. While the weather wasn't nice enough to go out on the lake it was nice enough to not require a jacket any time we went out of the house. It was also a nice treat to spend the entire weekend (friday-monday morning) just relaxin and having nothing else to worry about. We also shared the joy of homemade Fruity Pebbles Krispie Treats (highly reccomended)

Waiting at Walmart for Photos to Scrapbook

And with that Thanksgiving break began.

I only had a day and a half of my break by myself before Timmy came home. Most of which I spent feeling sick(ish). My apartment was a giant mess when he came home from the lack of motivation to unpack as well as the lack of caring.

Thanksgiving came and went. We did as we did last year, spending lunch with my family and then dinner with his. We played Monoply (deluxe edition) with his cousins who are very competitive. I'll have it known that of the five of us who played I did very well and was the third to go out, beat only by the two "tycoons" (as the O'keefe family has dubbed them).

 Tim agreed to go Black friday shopping with me. We didn't get up at the crazy hour and fight off all the professional shoppers but instead left the apartment at 8am. Still, we scored some sweet deals. One of which was a small Cricut for $60 (orginally about $180). This was something I'd been wanting since first discovering it during my weekend with Allison. This thing is basically amazing and an essential for any Scrapbooker.

Tim's feelings while at Michaels it reads: "help I'm a man in a craft store"

I also bought some DVD series that I'd been wanting since Target and Best Buy sell them for $10-14 a piece on this day. Tim bought a GPS for about $130 (extended warranty included) and with that our day was done. With that we spent the rest of that day watching Big Bang Theory.

I'm done with my Secret Santa gift for my best friend, my dad and my mother. I've also got Tim's gift mostly dealt with too. I've got a few ideas for the rest of it but most of them range out of what I can spend. All I have to get done is my Grandmother, really. I've got an idea for that though. (thanks to Allison introducing me to Archivers at the Mills Mall, I've gotten back into scrapbooking and crafts of all kinds).

As for putting a christmas tree up in my apartment, I'm not sure I'll be doing that. While I'm deciding, I drew a christmas tree on my sliding glass doors (to my balcony) with window crayons and markers and I'm going to encourage everyone to draw their own ornament on it whenever they come over.

All that being said, I've updated everyone quite a bit, I think.

So now I'm going to go drown myself in academics and hope for the best with my finals.