After the holiday

The worse feeling after Christmas?
The fact that you know you ate way too much in just ONE day.  But the good part?  Knowing that it was 100% worth it because you ate a lot with family and friends. :)

Hope you all had a great Christmas!  We sure did.  Took the hour and half drive to CT to spend it with my family and boy did we have fun.  It was great to see all my little cousins who are all growing up so fast.  Food and dessert were sooooo good.  And we even had a light dusting of snow on Christmas morning.  

Looking forward to enjoy a new year.

So, how much food did you eat during Christmas?  :)

Dear Santa

Dear Santa,
Please drop these items at my house.  :)

• The Perfect Brownie pan.  I love making brownies and this would make my life MUCH MUCH easier
• The Nook. I commute to work so this would make reading wonderful while on the train.  Won't have to carry big bulky books and I can have access to all the books I want!
• The Snuggie . You might think this is ridiculous and tell me to just grab my robe and put it on backwards.  But a robe is for bathroom use.  I would actually use this as I am always freezing in the living room and I could just throw a blanket on, but the snuggie will allow me to use the control, blackberry, hold a cup because of the wonderful sleeve options.  :)
• a new work wardrobe!
• Some new boots would be real nice.
• Chocolate covered strawberries... yummo!
• some new wipers for my car.
• Michael Buble's cd collection.. I <3 him
• Wii game - Mario & Sonic Winter Olympics 
• My commute to magically be shorter than it is now.
• Not to be cold when walking the 10 minute walk to work in 15 degree weather.
• many many more things...

Now, I know I won't get any of this stuff, but I just wanted to give you a heads up. Just in case.  :)

Sincerely,
Mrs. Newlywed Giggles

Oh no... sick

So this past weekend we had a pretty good size snow storm that brought us about 5-6 inches of snow.  We did go out in this weekend, but I was bundled up as I usually am. 

This morning I wake barely able to swallow because my throat felt so dry. I thought it was because of how hot it was in our bedroom from the heat.  WRONG.

As I'm sitting at my desk at work, the body aches have started and it feels like I'm swallowing nails.  Not good. So, I'm waiting to leave work since I have to rely on the train schedule.  I have about another half hour to go.  I'm going to go home and drink some of this:

and go straight to bed to get warm under the covers.  My hands right now feel ice cold and my cheeks feel like they are on fire!

I have some antibiotics left from the last time I was sick (please don't yell at me, I know I am suppose to finish all of them but I forgot one day then the next so I just stopped.  But they sure will come in handy now to maybe make me feel a little better!) so I'll take those too.  Hopefully my body aches will go away and my head stop hurting and my cheeks will resume to normal body temperature! 

What a happy Monday to me huh?

NO fair

Mr. Newlywed Giggle's is officially on vacation from work till after the holidays. 

What does that mean to me?  That every morning I have to get up to work early and when I leave, he gets to continue to snore until whenever he feels like waking up.

grrrr....

Decorating for the Holidays

I didn't go out and buy a whole bunch of decorations.  Instead, I headed over to the craft store and had some fun making my own.  It was relaxing and I enjoyed myself!  I don't see the point in me spending money on decorations, but I always have craft stuff laying around so I just made a few extra purchases and got working!

It started out with craft supplies

I cleared the table and started to cut and glue away

 

By the way, glitter glue is AWESOME

The results!

 

There are a bunch of those snowflakes you see above all over the apartment.  I went a little nuts sticking them where ever I found a spot.

:)

Our Christmas decoration

So, last year for Xmas we didn't have any decorations because 1. we had nowhere to store the decorations in our tiny apt. 2. We just came back from our honeymoon the last week of November and things were too crazy.

This year I wasn't thinking of decorating either because 1. We have a bigger apt, but I refuse to store things and take up space for 11 months out of the year, 2. Don't have money to be spending on decorations, and 3. We are not having any Xmas parties at our apt or gatherings so I feel like we can do without.  BUT, I couldn't resist on buying the below:

On Monday I was sick and stayed home from work.  I was in bed all day until I had my doctor's appointment.  After the doctor's appointment I head over to Walgreen's to get my prescription.  I had some time to wait before it was done so I ventured down the Xmas aisle.  They had a lot of cute stuff that I would have loved to decorate our apartment with, but I contained myself.  UNTIL I saw this cute little very glittery Xmas decoration.  Since we don't have any Xmas decorations or a tree, I decided that I REALLY wanted to get this.  When I looked at the price, I realized that I couldn't walk out of there without it because it was only .99 CENTS!  So I purchased this little Xmas tree along with my prescription and made my way home.  I set it down in the middle of our coffee table and went straight to bed.  When the hubby came home, I knew he would notice it right away since it's the first thing you will see when you walk into our apartment.  When the hubby comes to the bedroom to see how I'm doing, I wake up and I immediately ask him "How do you like our Xmas tree?" (in a raspy nasally sickly voice).  He starts laughing and says he likes it. 

Cha Ching! Point for Mrs. Newlywed Giggles!

Now, people might think it's crazy that I haven't decorated and don't plan on it.  We won't be celebrating Xmas in our apt let alone in the state we live in as we will be traveling to CT to my grandmother's.  So, to me it wasn't a big deal.  But it did make me a little depressed that I had nothing of Xmas up, of course until I bought this little .99 cent tree that is about 4 inches tall.  Surprising how that little tree makes me smile every time I see it. 

To me, my itty bitty tree is all I need to make my apartment Christmas cheery.   :)

This is how much we love each other

We love each other sooo much that we have passed on our sickness to each other.

Mr. Newlywed Giggles was sick for almost two weeks until he finally went to the doctor and got some antibiotics.  I was so proud of myself not getting sick, then BAM. I get sick. Yesterday I spent most of it in bed.  Today I feel much better and hopefully by tomorrow I'll be back on track!  I already went to the doctor because I knew I most likely caught what the hubby had.

Our weekend was nice and relaxing.  It was nice to have one relaxing weekend because the next couple of weekends is going to be fun filled with events and holidays!