The Great Christmas Tree Disaster

In case you don't know, I'm obsessed with Christmas and the holiday season in general. There's something about that time of year that I just love.

One of my favorite things about Christmas is putting up the tree. When we PCS'd from Polk, my tree didn't make it in our shipment and so it was left with friends. They never mailed it to me, so last year I went in search of a new tree. I found a perfect one at Hobby Lobby and told my parents just to ship it to me this year. Then I found out the cheapest shipping price for a box that size was $250. Um..no thanks!

So, after three years of not being able to put up my own tree, I am determined that I am going to get a tree and put it up.

I think I found the perfect tree! It's from Wal-Mart and the shipping is less than $10. It's the perfect height too- 7.5 feet and all the reviews have been great. It's also less than $80.00.



I'm so excited to put up my own tree this year!

Snapshot Saturday

Fall in Italy is gorgeous, here's a picture to prove it.

MilSpouse Friday Fill-In

Join in at Wife of a Sailor!



1.A different twist on last week’s question. This week, the first question is: what’s the nicest thing a MILSPOUSE has ever done for you?
Oh this is easy. There is a certain blogger, who I won't say her name because I'm not sure if she'd want me to or not, but she's been awesome to me. She and her husband generously let us use their extra car for over two months when we were waiting on car parts and for my car to be fixed. She dogsits Boomer for me and takes wonderful care of him. In short, she's great!

2.How often do you drive faster than the speed limit?
In Italy? All the time. The speed limits here are more like suggestions.

3.Did you have a nickname in school? If so, what was it?
Not really, I mean my friends called me by my last name, one guy in band called me Marshmallow and for awhile a few people called me "Cominasty" because they were in Spanish class with me when I conjugated "we eat" in Spanish to "cominasty". Yeah..it was embarassing.

4.If your life was a book, what would the title be and how would it end?
Oh, I've had the title picked out for awhile, "Me and You and a dog named Boomer" Playing off the Lobo song, "Me and You and a Dog named Boo". How would it end? I'm not sure, in a blaze of glory I guess!

5.Look back (in your planner if you have one) to September 14th… what did you do that day?
I don't have a planner, so I'm guessing that day I spent doing errands and blogging.

Back on the Bandwagon

The fitness bandwagon that is. Ever since I ran my 5K, I've been awful about working out. I just had no motivation. I'm not sure where it comes from, but I get in these fitness funks about once a year where I don't work out for about a month and just can't make myself do anything.

Thankfully the scale hasn't moved that much, but I feel like crap and I know it's because I haven't been working out, plus I've been eating badly.

So today I've designated Jump Back on the Fitness Bandwagon Day and I've stuck to it. I went and ran at the track and I haven't eaten anything terribly unhealthy today. I even made some pumpkin spice granola today. It smelled AMAZING.

Sean is gone for a week to Germany for some doctor's appointments so I've got lots of time on my hands. Hopefully that time will also include some working out and healthy meals. I have butternut squash soup, individual spinach lasagna roll-ups and coconut curry shrimp on the menu this coming week, so I think I should be good.

Other than that I plan on watching old movies like Casablanca, some Gilmore Girls and working on my college scrapbook. I'm beginning to wonder if I'm ever going to get it finished.

On the Radio

So living overseas means I'm not as exposed to pop culture that's hot right now in the States, but through iTunes and various other sources, I can get the drift of what's going on.

I'm about to the point where I'm going to start boycotting Top 40 radio. I hear a song sometimes and have to wonder two things:

1. What in the heck is the person who wrote this song thinking?
2. Can anybody get a record contract these days?

I have two songs to prove my point.

Exhibit A:

We R Who We R by Kesha



Have you heard the lyrics for this? Here are a few of my favorite snippets.

"We’re dancing like we’re dumb
Our bodies go numb
We’ll be forever young
You know we’re superstars
We are who we are!"

"I’m just talkin’ truth
I’m telling you ’bout the s— we do
We’re sellin’ our clothes, sleepin’ in cars
Dressin’ it down, hittin’ on dudes (HARD!)"

Um...selling' our clothes, sleepin' in cars? Sounds like a great life...

Exhibit B:

"I Whip My Hair" Willow Smith



Although Will Smith's daughter is adorable, I don't want to hear on constant repeat the words, "I Whip my Hair back and forth"

Question of the Day

Creating a gift registry when you move into a new house/buy your first home.



Is it a do or a don't?

Discuss!

(Let me just add that I'm not asking because I am thinking of doing this, I was just inspired to ask, by a debate on another website)

P.S. The rain has continued. Everything on post has been closed minus the shoppette. I shopped at the Italian grocery store today, but they don't have essentials like Dr.Pepper or Reeses, this could get ugly. I'm just grateful our home is not affected by the flooding. Thank god we live far away from the flooding.

Weekend Recap

Well, I'm sorry to say that the Halloween party wasn't really that great. Compared to last year I thought it was kind of ho-hum.

I didn't get any awesome pictures of me in my costume on my camera, but I think a few other people might have some, so I'll just have to post what I have.



This is me (minus my cop hat because it hurt my head) arresting my friend Brittni who was dressed as Justin Beiber.

There is some crazy weather going on here in Italy right now. It's majorly flooding in our area right now. In fact, post closed early today and most of the bridges around here are closed off because of the swollen rivers.

I borrowed a few pictures from some of my friends Facebook pages. Check it out. Crazyness!





The worst part is that it's not supposed to stop anytime soon. So I have no idea how much worse it's going to get.