So I know it's been ages since I last wrote in this thing... but what do you expect? It was holiday season... and I was in full on holiday spirit, cooking meals, visiting friends, having parties, and generally being grateful. But alas... the holidays are over, and I was laying in the bath tonight, and picking my way through Jane Eyre, and I just really wanted to write... but I didn't know where to start... and then BAM! It hit me like a lead balloon, my Blog?!! Haha! So here I am... stumbling through yet another addition to my ever growing memoirs?
(((I am listening to this guy while I am writing to you guys! Brendan James, amazing, truly amazing!)))
So let's go back to November where I left off:
I still haven't found a job, so that's a bust. But its the new year, and I am determined to find something... ANYTHING! Alright so Thanksgiving... Husbands sponsor on his boat invited us to their family dinner, really fun... football, MTG, great food, and awesome people! ( I mean really, you gotta love Cowboy Fans!) But after that was the preparing for the Christmas time fun! I really felt like being fun this year, we found a 6ft Christmas tree, for 20 bucks at a vintage shop, they weren't even really selling it, just moving it from one location to another, but I just fell in LOVE and it was white!! So awesome, so husband and I made some inquires, smiled a lot, and jumped up and down, and we walked away with a White Christmas tree! Ornament shopping was harder... so am I the only one that realized that everything that Walmart, Target, or well anywhere for that matter was glitter sprayed??? Haha! But it turned out great... I meant to take a picture, but you know how that goes... I didn't, I forgot! Hah! Nothing new! We had a great time, I want to send out a special thanks to the husband's friend's wife (HFW) that lives across the way, she is really awesome and shopping with her is like shopping with me! Slow, tedious, and fun so much fun!!! Haha! Speaking of HFW , she put on this truly great spread with her brother for Christmas lunch! Mexican food, and Kinect for Xbox... cant go wrong huh? I had a blast!
So Christmas night I tried my hand at a Christmas dinner traditional style... a chicken, a turkey and all the sides that fit accordingly... and go figure for my third roasted chicken I failed and for my first ever roasted Turkey I succeeded! I loved it, infact it lasted a week in left overs... and I am pretty sure that the company liked it too, though I'm not sure because everyone was so stuffed from that awesome Mexican Lunch! :D
So it's after the new year... after the Husbands and my first year anniversary, after our first Christmas, our first Thanksgiving, and our second New Year together, and I am starting to truly understand the richness that comes with being married, the great feeling knowing that somebody is there. Not sometimes, not a call away, or a hug when you hurt. But the ALL the TIME feeling, that comes with the highs and lows the in betweens and the emotional rollercoaster that is marraige, he is amazing and in the new year I want to celebrate my Husband for everything he is and does, he is not my other half, but more like that inspiring force that gives me strength... I love you Husband, and if you ever read this, I know you will know that this is only words, That I hope I show you the amount of love I have for you, everyday! One year down darling, another eternity to go.
Now on a much stronger note I want to address something that has been a re-acurring theme the last few months, for those of my friends and family that know I am a strong President Obama supporter, and try to come at me or toward me with alligations or remarks regarding his term leading this country here is what I have to say, then that is it. If anyone feels the need to bring it up again to me again I will just send them here: okay! (I'm actually copy and pasting this from a comment I made earlier this evening) :
""Doesn't mean that the President is anything less, we all fall for the lies that people place in front of us on a daily basis, why should I hold my President to a standard that I know I cannot follow? So he chose wrong... so did Bush for most of the war, Clinton for his choice in bedmates, and the Sr. Bush for most of the Gulf War originally... we always vote for the person we see that best fits in the chair at the pentagon or the White House... but we forget a lot of the time that they are human... people just like you and me, but they have the decisions that out way anything I will ever have to face... am I giving President Obama any slack for what he's going through? Maybe a little, because honestly if anybody thought that he was going to fix Healthcare, the economy, world hunger and world peace, trade relations, the war and national security not to mention the national debt and housing crisis, in the first term or even his entire (maybe two terms) of his election... then they were blind and a little naive. No one can fix that, it isn;t an over night or even a year thing. It's something we are all going to have to work on, and so what if he tried to fix health care first? Maybe he thought that was the best course of action... he had his reasons... and maybe other people are starting to back slide on backing him up, but I'm not going too. He is trying his hardest... and I dont see him taking 13 week vacations to Crawford every 3 to 8 weeks.""
Alright, I think that's enough for now, being that this is my first blog back. You've all got enough to read... love you all, Happy New Year, and many blessings throughout your many traditions, and lives!
-Jude
