Xanga

Did anyone else have a xanga account in high school? (for those of you who don't know what Xanga is, it used to be a popular site for bloggers, mainly teenage bloggers.) For some reason I just started thinking about it and decided to see if my account was still active. I remembered my user name and password and batta-bing there it was! I thought I'd share some of my favorite posts.

Tuesday, April 19, 2005
I'm getting married! It still doesn't sound real to me. August:)

And here is a post from my freshman year in college out in Utah. Made me laugh!

Wednesday, January 29, 2003
teriaki chicken yummmm......my new favorite food. They have a lot of that out here....and a lot of mexican food, which i love.....but there is taco time.....and that my friends is dirty.

I just love reminiscing:)

Christmas

Christmas is over and now all we have to look forward to is January. Bleh. Jk there is lots to look forward to, like MLK weekend, Valentines Day, Easter, and then summer!

We had such a good time in PA. We arrived around 7:30pm Wednesday night. My family was so gracious to wait and eat with us. We had our traditional sushi dinner with shrimp cocktail, Cesar salad and taquitos. Then we watched Scrooge and went to bed.

Santa was very good to me this year. I got an 8GB memory stick with all of the data from our deceased laptop on it! Our last laptop was destroyed by the Queens flood 1.5 years ago. I am so happy to have all of my college pictures, journal entries and music back! I also got this most wonderful pearl necklace with gemstones. I had been eyeing this necklace for a few weeks and Matt tricked me into thinking I was getting a new can opener, so I was super surprised. I got gift cards, necklaces, clothes, hair straightener and a 1 lb. sugar daddy.

Matt was happy with his new gun case, bowie knife (which he cut his finger on the first day he got it), angels beanie hat, Death Valley book, golf shoes, gift card, CD, bottle of sparkling cider (Lauren!), multi tool, and money. We both got money from family and some gift cards. Thanks to everyone!

We had a fun four day trip to PA. Christmas morning we had our traditional Christmas breakfast where we host all of our friends for, you got it, breakfast!

On Friday we all went to Target and spent our gift cards. I had to hit up the bath and body works sale. I go every year and get their body creams for $3 each and then I am set until the next December. We went and saw "Marley and Me". I bawled. And we played a whole lot of Guitar Hero.

Now back to work and the biggest loser moffitt style which starts Jan. 2nd

First few guests for the breakfast

Matt in charge of the pancakes

Kyra rocking guitar hero

My new favorite necklace from my wonderful hubs!

Best Christmas Card Ever

My sister apparently has a stash of these cards and only gives out one each December. Our family was the lucky recipient this year.

Merry Christmas!

Shortest Day of The Year

Today, December 21st, is the first day of winter and also the shortest day of the year. Oh and it's Matt's half b-day! Only 6 months to go until the big 30!

Here in Greenwich, the sun rose at 7:17am and will set at 4:29pm. I cannot wait for the days to start getting longer. Summer here we come!! I know I am a little too eager. We had the first major snowstorm of the season on Friday. It snowed about 5 inches. And it's supposed to snow again on Christmas Eve. We'll have a white Christmas and Matt and I will be driving to PA in it. Wish us luck!!

Tree Time

It wouldn't be Christmas in CT if we didn't go see the tree at Rockefeller Center. Thanks to the Jones' for inviting us along.

The tree was beautiful this year as always. It was freezing cold and crowded of course, but well worth it. My Aunt Lezlie from DC happened to be there the same time as us! We didn't know it at the time, but afterwards she called me and we realized we had missed each other by minutes. It would have been fun to see her and my cousin.....there's always next year.

Some of My Favorite Things

Life has been a little crazy and exhausting lately so I have been indulging in some new favorite things. Over the last month I have come across some awesome products. I will now share.

1. Netflix-The Stokes introduced us to the awesomeness of Netflix. You get one DVD in the mail at a time and you can also watch unlimited movies online. Yes I have heard of Netflix before and yes I do receive daily pop up ads for it, but I never experienced its greatness until that fateful Friday night at the Stokes. We have watched way too many movies already. I think I could start my own movie critic blog. Here is my first critique: 'In the Land of Women' worst movie EVER.

2. RGB Cable-This wonderful cable hooks our computer up to our brand new 32 inch TV so we are able to use the TV as a monitor. We can also watch our online movies on the TV. I love technology!

3. Skype-So my uncle has been bugging me to get Skype for a long time but I never felt the need to. Well it's awesome! We bought a web-cam and are able to see and talk to most of our family over the Internet for free! It's a must have. I talk to my sister every night and mainly just fool around watching video clips and gossiping.....in a good way:)

4. Mint Chocolate M&M's-To die for. Seriously. The other night I wanted chocolate anything so I bought this bag of M&M's. It was the only thing at the checkout and it was on sale. They are regular chocolate M&M's but twice the size and minty-delicious.

Ok well I'm going to go Skype, watch Netflix and eat my M&M's.

A Week of Fun

Our week of fun started with a trip out with my girlz to see 'Twilight'. No Matt did not see it and he says he never will. I have other plans.......Any who, I LOVED it. I thought it stuck very closely to the book and the actors were awesome. I am going to see it again at Christmas time with my sisters and Marmie.
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The next day we headed out to Cali via Virgin America which is an awesome airline. We landed around 11am and when we emerged from the LAX airport we were greeted with 70 degree weather. I was already at home. We saw Matt's bro Mike and fam and then drove to Ridgecrest where we had a delicious prime rib dinner at The Lodge. Matt used to be the manager of The Lodge.
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Sunday night we drove to the OC and stayed at the Hyatt courtesy of Matt and his awesome benefits. I got to see my old roomie, Julie. It was SO good to see her and her hubs, Asi. Monday we did the Disneyland thing all day. It was so much fun. Then we drove back to Ridgecrest, stopping to see Matt's grandma on the way.
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Tuesday we went shooting in the back country! Wed. we woke up stinking early and headed out to tour the rugged landscape and take engagement pics for Matt's sister Amy and her fiance Tim. We had a lot of fun hiking the falls and meeting Potlicker, the infamous dog of Ballarat, CA.
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Thursday of course was Thanksgiving, which was delicious and full of family and fun. Friday we went shopping, didn't buy anything but had to go anyways!! Then we took the red eye back to JFK and got in around 6am.
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Desert Rain


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All of you LOST fans out there will appreciate this. Michael from Lost was on our flight back and I totally stood behind him when we boarded! I was too afraid to talk to him or take a pic. Didn't want to seem like a creepy 'regular' person. But I finally saw my celebrity! Oh and Matt felt a little uneasy having him on our flight. I mean he obviously has bad karma because of Lost. Now that I think about it the turbulence was hideous. No kidding 10 minutes of hard core shaking and bumpiness. I pretty much started to cry and promised that I would never complain or be horrible again! That lasted about 2 minutes!
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We miss CA and can't wait to go back. XOXO.