{Currently} December

Loving how our Christmas cards turned out. I decided to use Minted this year and I’m so glad I did because their gold foil stamp cards are gorgeous. Plus, the turnaround time from when I ordered the cards to when I received them was pretty fast, AND they sent me extra envelopes and return address labels. I’m officially a fan of Minted and will use them for my Christmas cards always and forever.

Loathing the fact that my laptop is having issues. According to my husband, the Windows installation got corrupted somehow. He’s still working on fixing it, so I’m using my iPad to type up this post, which is kind of tedious. I love my iPad and all, but it’s way easier to blog from an actual laptop or desktop.

Watching Christmas movies whenever I have some free time. I tried watching Elf on Tuesday night, but fell asleep as soon as the movie started. (Exhausted much?) I’ll have to give that one another go this weekend.

Feeling stressed, but what else is new? I just have a lot going on right now with working a lot and trying to survive the holidays. There’s also a lot of unknown in my life right now, and I hate that feeling of not knowing what’s going on and not being able to plan my life.

Planning a weekend getaway with Chris in January. Too bad that weekend getaway isn’t happening this weekend. I could use it!

Working on getting some last minute Christmas stuff done. I got our cards sent out, now I need to buy 2-3 more gifts and then I’ll be ready. Also, Chris and I decided to host a last minute Holiday party this weekend, so I’ll be prepping for that all day Saturday.

Wishing I knew the status of a job I recently interviewed for. I’ve been playing phone tag with the hiring manager for a week now, so I still don’t know if I got the job or not. I just want to knooooow.

Looking forward to hosting a holiday shindig at our apartment on Saturday night, having a week and a half off from my office job starting Wednesday, and celebrating Christmas next week!

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{Currently} November

Loving that I am FINALLY making good money at my restaurant job again. I recently went from only working 3 nights a week to 5 nights a week. And not only am I working more, I’m working more dinner shifts rather than happy hour shifts. (Servers make way more money during dinner shifts.) You guys, I’M SO HAPPY I’M MAKING MONEY AGAIN. Summer was rough financially because of my drop in restaurant job income. I’ve really been looking forward to the holidays since August and now they’re here, which means more money in savings and bigger chunks of money to put toward my debt.

Loathing clique-y co-workers, people who spread rumors, gossip, and a toxic work environment.

Reading WordPress To Go and teaching myself how to move my domain from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. I’m planning on making the switch this weekend and I’m nervous! I’m worried I’m going to mess up my blog or something. I could probably just hire someone to help me do it, but that would cost money. Plus, I want to make myself do it on my own because I feel like this is general knowledge I should have as a blogger. Fellow bloggers: any tips on how to make the transition?

Feeling really good since I’ve been going to yoga again these past two weeks. I love that yoga not only makes me feel good physically, but it makes me feel good mentally, too. Now if I could only get back on track with running; I haven’t ran in almost two weeks! I blame the cold weather for deterring me from getting out of bed early in the morning.

Planning Thanksgiving dinner at my dad’s house. We are having our Thanksgiving dinner the Saturday after Thanksgiving because I, along with some of my other family members, have to work on Thanksgiving Day. Chris and I also thought about hosting a Friendsgiving dinner at our place again this year, but we decided against it. Since August-October were so busy, we’re trying to keep November pretty low-key, so that means only planning ONE Thanksgiving dinner instead of two. Less commitments = less stress.

Working on blogging more, reading more, job searching more, and exercising more. These are my main priorities whenever I get free time these days.

Wishing that I get an interview for a particular job I applied for recently, or even better, the job itself.

Looking forward to seeing the new Hunger Games movie this weekend, running a 10K on Thanksgiving, and Black Friday sales!

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