Giveaway Winner

After using the Random Integer generator I can now announce a winner!



Number 44 is Cheryl!

Cheryl please email me at newgirlonpost{at}live.com and give me your address so I can send this to you.

Thanks to everyone who participated in my giveaway!

Time for a New Girl Giveaway!

As promised yesterday...it's time for a giveaway! And I figured with this horrible Fort Hood situation going on, we could all use a pick-me-up.

I had originally ordered the Pioneer Woman cookbook a couple of months ago and just received it this week as it just became released.



Then I got an amazing early Christmas gift from my good friend Kebi. She got me a signed copy of the cookbook and a Pioneer woman shirt! So..because I now have two cookbooks you get one of them. Sorry..not the signed copy though. I'm keeping that one.




Here's how it works. Leave me a comment and you are entered. Contest ends Friday night at 11:59 p.m. Central Standard Time. I'll announce the winner on Saturday.

Four Thoughts

1. I love bagels with cream cheese that has chives in it.

2. I entered Pioneer Woman's latest photography giveaway. I really hope I win!

3. Speaking of giveaways I should be having one tomorrow. I just need to nail down a few details. If not, look for it on Monday!

4. I've been watching Samantha Who all day. My thoughts? A. Being unemployed has its perks and B. I really like Samantha Who. Why'd they have to cancel it?

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

I feel that way about food lately. It's like I can't stop eating and I'm never not hungry. I'm starting to feel like a fatty, because of the eating thing and also because I've been a total slacker when it comes to the gym.

I don't know what my problem is honestly. I think the eating may be coming from anxiety over Sean's deployment, but I don't feel that anxious about it when I stop and think about it. So...I really don't know what my problem is.

Sean asked me if I was pregnant. Which seems to be his question for everything when I'm tired, cranky, hungry or naseous. To that question I'm 99.9% sure the answer is a big no.

Anyone get in funks like this? Maybe I just have the winter blues since it's getting cold here, but I kind of doubt that as well, as I love this time of year.

I'll Be Home for Christmas

Well...it's official now. I will be "home" for Christmas. I bought my tickets last night. Talk about expensive! The cheapest I could find was about $940 and with taxes it came out to about $1400. Ridiculous! Good thing I only plan on going home about once a year.

I'm so excited about going home for Christmas. The only thing that would make it better is if Sean were going to, but obviously that's not in the cards. So it will just be me visiting friends and family and eating my weight in all the food I've been missing for the past year. Mazzios...Taco Bueno...Chilis...Starbucks. Then I plan on heading to the stores: Hobby Lobby...Ulta...Hallmark. You get the picture.

Has anyone started Christmas shopping? I like to do a lot of mine online and then ship it to my parents home, so I'm not stuck trying to cart a bunch of gifts home with me. Today I started buying Sean a couple of gifts, but he told me not to get him a lot, as I'll be sending him care packages quite regularly with goodies in them. So I think his main present from me will be a shockproof, dustproof and waterproof camera. Then a few movies to go with his PSP. All I want from him is a new laptop and the Twilight Zone complete collection.

I have a few ideas of what I'm getting other people, but I need to start making my usual list of what to get each person. That helps me out a lot.

What can I say? I'm one of those anal listmaking people.

Oh..and if you are so inclined, I should be posting a link to some photoshop actions on my photo blog (which I haven't used in forever) So look for that soon!

What's There to Say About Monday?

I've got a lot of things swirling around in my brain today...so I'm sure this post will be all over the place.

-Starting my new phase of unemployment today. I think I've been pretty productive, I've worked on laundry, washed dishes, cleaned out the fridge and swept the kitchen. Next up? Taco soup for dinner

-I'm really hoping to catch up with all the blogs I've missed reading.Things are going to be a little hectic the next couple of months, but should slow down when I get back from the States in January.

-Go time for Sean is quickly approaching. I never mention dates on my blog for obvious reasons, but I will say that we are combining our Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations.

-Because deployment time is approaching I've been mentally making a list of what goals I plan on accomplishing during this deployment. Soon I'll actually put them on paper.

-You know...there are days that I'm ready to leave Italy and days I really love it and don't want to go back to the States. Saturday morning was a time I loved it. Sean and I made our way to our favorite loose wine shop, bought two bottles of 2 liter wine and a bag of biscotti cookies for 12 euro. That is one of the things I'll miss when we leave here.

-I can't believe it's November! I've been here almost a year and feel like there's so many things I haven't even seen or done yet. Obviously I need to get on that.

- I met a friend of a friend the last week that was visiting from NYC. She told me this past Saturday that she had so much fun with all of us here that I was welcome to visit and stay with her in NYC anytime. I plan on taking her up on that. It's been 10 years since I've been too New York and I'd LOVE to go back.

Back to cleaning for me!

Halloween Aftermath

I'm supposed to be a schoolgirl and Sean is a bee. We didn't really put a lot of thought into our costumes obviously.



I loved this pumpkin!



How do you like my black hairdo? Is it me?