Christmas Line-up

Thursday: go home to Oshkosh, WI.  Meet up with Alex and her friends and then hopefully some of LHS '05.
Friday (Christmas Eve): sleep in as long as possible, Alex and I will help Judes with the last of the decorations and make TONS of food including deviled eggs and the best red velvet cupcakes everrrr.  AND probably take a nap on my favorite couch in the whole world.  Then we make the treck to Neenah, WI to be with my mom's side of the family.  We have a Christmas exchange with 40 of us and eat a ton of food.  In the true Christmas Eve spirit, we'll come home and make one last Christmas drink and curl up on the couch to watch Step Mom or Elf.  Step Mom if we are looking for a feel good ending, or Elf if we can get Judes to sit down and watch a really dumb movie.

Saturday (Christmas Day): now we sleep in as long as possible, before I would wait outside of Alex's room for her to finally wake up and then we sit on top of the stairs while Judith takes a picture.  gag.  Now we make a huge breakfast spread and wait to open presents until everyone is ready.  We play Christmas music on repeat and finally sit down in the living room and open the loot.  After we get ready for 45 people to come and have Judes yell at us to help more.  Everyone comes over and we have the best FOOD EVERRRR.  Christmas Ham, num num num.  Then we go out and drink a ton and I'm always hungover on the 26th.  Merry Christmas, baby.

First Spin Class....

ok so Cathy and i tried our first spin class last night...i was a little bit scared, not going to lie.  you always see like 45-50 year old women just hauling ass during those classes so i've never really had the urge to try it.  i also really dont like the feeling that you get from sitting on a bike. hard to walk/sit the next day.  so anyways, cathy talked me into try it.  mind you, i have been running about 12 miles a week (well kind of, whatever its my goal and i normally make it but sometimes i dont run for a whole week) so i feel like i'm in decent shape but jokes on me, i apparently suck at everything.  i USED to have pretty strong quads due to countless wall-sits and lunges during vball and basketball but no, not any more.  i was absolutely dying.  i was sweating more than i do running 5 miles and i was seriously out of breath.  whaaaat.  as always there was a 50 yr old skinny woman that just annihilated cathy and i - she was sprinting the WHOLE time, kill her. i almost wanted to trip her as she got off her bike but she probably would have kicked my ass.  ugh.  it was a little bit embarrassing for me and then of course, i can't walk today because my quads hurt so bad.  worst part is that i have about 30 steps to get up to get onto the train platform, i almost had to stop and take a break after about 14 stairs!  give me a treadmill and headphones and i'll be fine, a bike and techno music to pedal to - NO THANKS.

 this is what i look like on a spin bike.  yaaaa right.

holiday party

last weekend was my holiday party for work.  it was pretty awesome and fancy.  it also was my first corporate party.  last year we just went to dinner with the people in the office and their spouses, a little bit awkward because i had to beg ted to go with me so that i wasn't the 8th wheel and THEN everyone started talking about how they met and their kids. well thats nice.  ANYWAYS, my company has about 180 employees and they flew everyone out to boston where are headquarters and put us up in a hotel room.   they even flew out spouses/sig others.  it was pretty intense.  a couple of us had the same flight and went to lunch right when we got in...followed by a couple too many beers.  of course i was a little bit messy and had to go back to the hotel to shower and get ready.  not easy when you can't see.  we finally get to the banquet hall and it is beautiful.  lights everywhere, beautiful tables of appetizers and desserts as well as a couple of open/top shelf bars.  hmm so we have some drinks and food and try to mingle.  its a pretty young crowd so of course we are all judging eachother and WOW some girls have no idea of what is appropriate.  no boobs and no ass!  cmon, pull yourselves together.  nobody wants to see you do the walk of shame the next morning.  they had some pretty sick awards given out and some ridiculous raffle prizes.  all in all, it was probably a $300k party.  whaaaat.  ugh, i wish i had a date that could have experienced this with me, aka gotten just as drunk as me so i would have had someone to make sure that i got to my hotel room ok! hahaha kidding.  i was completely fine. 

spent the weekend in boston with alanna and that was a blast too.  finally saw anuj after a 2 year break.  ugh. i miss that kid!  will post pictures soon.