My Uterus Hurts

God, who knew going off birth control would be so painful?

Christmas First

I am a huge sucker for after Christmas sales on Christmas stuff.  Huge!  Just ask the hubster.  I refuse to buy Christmas stuff at full price unless it's super extra special*.  All my wrapping paper, tissue paper, ribbons, lights, decorations, all at 50% off or more!

So imagine the surprise at my own will power when I have only spent $20 on Christmas stuff.  It helps that I don't have a house to decorate anymore or a place to store anything I buy.  So far I've purchased

• One movie ticket stub ornament
• 3 rolls of wrapping paper
• 2 packages of gift tags
• 1 package of small boxes
• 1 package of slipper boxes
• 1 package of pill boxes
• 1 package of tissue paper
• peanut butter m&ms
• holiday mint m&ms

I walked away from two ornaments at Kohl's today too.  I've even perused the sale stuff online and have turned it all down.

* The hubster and I pick one ornament a year to purchase that kind of represents the year or something important to us.  We usually buy full price so it doesn't sell out when we do find "the one".  This year it was an Eiffel Tower ornament from Anthropologie.  Normally, we'd buy ornaments while we are on vacation, but apparently, Christmas ornament souvenirs are not popular in Europe as they are in the States.  One of my favorites is a snowboarding bear I bought in Vail over Fourth of July.

Chew toys

I bought a chew toy for the dogs for Christmas. It was so popular that they all fought over it. My mom and I bought three more so each dog would have their own. They have no interest in their individual toy, they just want the original.

*sigh*

Ticking Time Bomb

And so the countdown begins...

Not the countdown until the hubster arrives in San Diego (that has been going on for almost 6 months and it'll hit zero soon enough).  This countdown is a much more explosive one.  I'm not saying that things have been a breeze being separated from the hubster.  We were thrown back into our long distance relationship days and it has been tough.  Things were easier back then.  We had hardly spent more than a few long weekends together.  For this separation, we had been living together for over 7 years.

Now that the hubster arrives on Jan 1, the time bomb between him and I will have defused, but now the fuse has been lit for the time bomb between us (hubster and I) and my parents.  You can almost cut the tension with a knife and once the hubster is here permanently, you will be able to cut it with a knife.

What we need to have happen is:

1. hubster finds a job
2. we find a tenant to rent our place (hopefully, a good one who wants to stay forever *keeps fingers crossed*
3. Find a house to buy or a place to rent

All this needs to happen within the next few months or who knows what state my relationship with my parents will be once I leave their house for the second time in a decade.

Dog hater

Does this look like a man who hates dogs?

I think not.