debt be gone

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Today is a special celebration day.

As of today we are credit card debt free.

We have been working on this goal for almost three years.

In April of this year it would have been three years.

We finished two months before my master budget plan.

Our only other debts are now Tyler's car and our house.

Tyler's car should be paid off by April. Meeting our goal of being debt free.

We don't count the house.

This weekend we're off to celebrate.

little letters

I guess I'm in a letter writing mood as of lately.

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Dear overstock.com,

Thank you for having such good prices on boots, but can you please perfect your product descriptions?

Thanks,
somewhat pleased customer

*****

Dear Ugg-look-alike boots,

You're so ugly, but I'm in love with you. Thank you for keeping my toes so warm.

Love,
cold feet person

*****

Dear husband,

I love you for buying me a snuggie as a surprise. It keeps me warm while I'm up all night on the computer.

Love,
no longer cold wife

*****

Dear mom,

Have I told you how psyched I am to be going to lovely Montreal with you? Well.. I am.

Love,
your favorite daughter

*****

Dear April,

Mommy would really appreciate if you stopped peeing when you get scared because daddy cornered you while he was playing chase with you.

Love,
sick of washing blankets mom

*****

Dear Oliver,

you're the sweetest, most cuddly doggie ever. Just make sure you share the fleece.

Love,
fleece loving mom

*****

Dear DVR,

I don't know what we did before we had you.

Love,
TV loving person

*****

Dear pita bread,

I love you. I could eat you everyday for every meal.

Love,
carb maniac

*****

Dear work,

Quit calling me and asking me to work on Sundays. No I won't come in. It's always no.

Love,
Sabbath keeping mormon girl

*****

Dear scale,

Thank you for letting me know I lost 12lbs... now stick to that trend.

Love,
smaller person

****

Dear bed,

I'm on my way to meet you right now.

Love,
your overly tired, should have been in bed 7 hours ago night RN

apology

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Dear Christmas,

I just needed to get something off of my chest.

I'm sorry I was such a grinch this year

I didn't do neighbor gifts

I didn't do Christmas cards

No carols were sung

No gingerbread houses were decorated

No cookies were baked

We barely even did Christmas day

I promise this year I'll plan better and do all the things mentioned above. The whole working thing threw me off.

Thanks,

Christmas lover

2010

Happy New Year!

Husband and I rang in the new year at my work.

We attempted to go to the top floor of the hospital, but no fireworks were seen.

He brought us all pizza, and I had brought sparkling cider.

The navy blue scrubs and the stethoscope hung around my neck was something I never thought I'd be wearing while ringing a new year.

He left shortly after midnight while I ran around trying to hang antibiotics, handing over hydrocodone and carafate, flushing IV lines, and giving insulin shots. Fun times.

Last night I took our Christmas decorations down.

It always makes me sad to not have twinkling lights all over the house, but it's always a reminder that a new year has really started.

I'm so excited about this year! There's so much planned, so much to be accomplished.

I'm hoping for peace, healing, and forgiving.
Excited about trips to Montreal, Europe, San Antonio, and Orlando.
Celebrating five years of wedded bliss.
Visiting all the temples close by to us.
Me turning 25. Tyler turning the big 3-0
Being debt free.
Going back to school for my Bachelors in Nursing.
Discovering Dallas/Fort Worth.

This year is bound to be full of excitement!

TSO

Yesterday Tyler and I went to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra at the American Airlines Center.

We had dinner at Avanti Ristorante for some good Italian food.

The concert was a bit strange to me, especially at first. There was just something weird about them singing about Christ with heavy rock to it. It's like I was like ACDC/Gun n' Roses meet Pentecostal church.

It was the heaviest light show I have ever seen. I actually think it was more of a lights/pyro/laser show as much as a music concert. Cool? Very much. Especially for this ex theater techie.

Nobody does what they do. They're very talented. heavy rock just isn't quite my cup o' tea. and I definitely could have done without all the hair flipping and immodest back up singers. Enjoy the videos (you'll see what I mean).

29th Birthday

The day after Christmas Tyler turned 29.

We started out the day by going to lunch to Costa Vida that is about 45 minutes from our house.

Burritos of happiness!

After the meal we went to the Grapevine mills outlet mall for a little after Christmas shopping. This was an event for me. :) I tried to be fast though.

We then went to what Tyler wanted to do for his birthday. We went to the Gaylord Texan at Grapevine for their ICE! exhibition.

We got our tickets (barely) for the last show. Everything else was sold out and we were there at 7:00pm, so we walked around the beautiful hotel to look at their lights and decorations.

I think it'd be so fun to stay at one of their hotels one of these times.

Gingerbread house

We were going to eat dinner, but neither one of us were hungry after Costa Vida. So we walked around the gift shop, took pictures, and got in line an hour early to get into the exhibit.

It was so full of people it was nuts.

I was freezing as soon as we got in there, in spite of them giving us nasty coats that get reused over and over without washing, germs much. yeah.

Tyler was determined to slide down the ice slide. I was ready to get out. But since it was his birthday and all I obliged and waited patiently for him to sit in line for thirty minutes and then slide down.

Now if I was thinking straight I would have waited in line with him, slided down first and then filmed him coming down... but no.. instead I just waited at the bottom the whole thirty minutes freezing my bum off.

At the end of it they had an ice nativity.

Was it pretty cool? Yes

Will we go again next year? Yes

But next year I'll dress appropriately so that my fingers don't hurt once they were defrosted. skinny jeans and boots just didn't cut it. We'll also go sometime during the week so it's not jammed packed full of people. bring hand warmers. and get online tickets.

Christmas

Christmas was so low key, it's like it didn't even happen.

It snowed in Dallas Christmas Eve and it stuck through morning. That was a Christmas miracle and brought me great joy.
Tyler took this picture on Christmas Eve.

I was scheduled to work Christmas Eve and day.

So when I got home on Christmas morning after having a rough night at work (manic bipolar patient does that to a nurse) I came home to a Christmas breakfast made by my loving husband.

Please excuse the exhausted face, crazy hair, and lovely scrubs.

This is the extent of our Christmas pictures. We filmed gifts and I showered and crashed shortly after that.

We got a Wii fit plus and some nick knacks, namely food.
The real gift was paying off another credit card on Christmas Eve. We are now down to only one card with a balance. And that is the reason of the low key Christmas. :-)

I ended up getting canceled on Christmas day. I got up, showered, and had every intention to do something with Tyler. However he had a baptism to attend, and I chose to stay behind. I got back into jammies, browsed the net, and went back to bed to read... and ended up sleeping again until the next morning which made for a total of 18 hours of sleep in 24 hours. Night shift is rough. Tyler watched some TV when he got home and attempted to get me up without success.