The best Christmas present ever....

So, I just received the gift I bought Michael for Christmas. It's an inversion table. I kick so much ass I can hardley stand it. He's gonna flip his lizzy and no I cannot wait so I am giving it to him tonight. I am horrible about waiting until birthdays or Christmas, if I know you're gonna love it and it's perfect... I absolutely without question will give it to you the moment I get it. It's just the way the cookie crumbles.

And no, that's not me on the inversion table. Thanks to all who may have been confused! :)

Not having kids anytime soon....

I was drifting off into sweet slumber last night when suddenly I felt my nose being pinched shut. I opened my eyes to find Michael staring at me. "I can't take it anymore," he says. "Your nose whistle sounds like screaming babies."

Kite flying -- not as easy as it looks

I had a wonderful 5 day weekend. For thanksgiving I went with my sister to her friend's house to eat the feast. There were 3 of us that did the actual cooking and man.... so not easy. Her friend, Jackie is friends with the entire central coast of California I realized. So, the people just kept walking in the door. We cooked and prepared a whole lot of food and appetizers, plenty for all... so that was a relief. At the end we all sat around a fire and rubbed our full bellies... bliss! I got to listen in on some interesting conversations about electric cars and solar panels. Man, there are a ton of hippies here.

A couple of Saturdays ago, I totally scored and found a really fancy new kite at a garage sale. !1 dollar! And it wasn't made out of plastic garbage bag, it was cloth. YAY! So, Michael and I went to the beach on Saturday to fly this awesome kite. Yeah, all the way to the beach it was windy outside, then BAM..... got to the beach.... no wind. Which is usually the opposite actually... hmmm weird. But we didn't give up that easy, we ran to create wind but the longest the kite stayed up was like 30 seconds. It just kinda fell, nose first, into the sand... over and over. Then Lily, our dog, would attack it. It wasn't happenin for us so we just laid out on a blanket and ate oranges and read magazines. All together a fun afternoon even though we couldn't get the kite action on. Next time.... :)

On Sunday we went to an outside free showing of "It's a Wonderful Life." This was so much fun! Everyone just brought their camp chairs and blankets and sat out on the lawn next to a building. They projected the movie onto the side of a building. It was so nice, cuddling up to my boyfriend and watching the movie outside. I loved it, being there with all those strangers and everyone with their families and loved ones.... ahhhhh.... I'm so cheesy like that. Even though there is so much to stress about right now, that moment was just so perfect and I felt so peaceful in the middle of all those strangers with the arms of the man I love around me.