This weekend my mom and my sisters are going to bake Christmas cookies and spend time together. The week after all my friends and me are having an ugly Christmas sweater party. We all bring all of our favorite dishes and one of us make a ham and we just spend time together. We also all bring a $10 gift and do a swap your neighbor.

I also love to listen to Christmas music. I commute so it’s nice to have a change in music. I will admit eventually this music will get old to me, but as of now I love it. I can also just not listen to it for a while and then go back to it.

My niece and nephew are what make my Christmas the best. This year I am going with them to Colorado on a snow skiing trip. They are so excited and that alone makes this Christmas season perfect.

I also love Thanksgiving dinner.  My family loves to cook so when we get together it is a feast.  We start with homemade cinnamon roles in the morning and all different breakfast casseroles. Then I have to get ready for the three more meals I have after that.

I have to go to my family on my mom’s side for lunch and my dad’s side for dinner. In between that I have to go to my fiancés house for his family meal that is also huge. Every meal is amazing is every meal my family makes sure I have more than enough to eat. It sounds miserable but somehow I keep up and enjoy every meal. I usually hate over eating like that but not on Thanksgiving. I am so excited and cannot wait!

The fall semester is the worst in my opinion. There are two major holidays right at the end of the semester that add more stress to that time. People are traveling and trying to get to their families during thanksgiving, which means leaving right when they need to be working on their projects. Also many people are trying to figure out how to accommodate people in their homes and cook a nice meal for their friends and family. This also adds more things to do when they need to be studying and consecrating on projects.

Then everyone has to consider that Christmas is right after school gets out. So people are trying to get all their presents for friends and family while still in classes. When you’re in school it is hard to get presents because you don’t have time to work as much. So at this time you are trying to work as much as you can, scrape up the money so get good presents, and making time to end the semester with great grades.

If I had to give anyone advice I would tell them to not try to control everything. Try to have fun and not worry about all the small things that really aren’t going to matter in the long run. I had to figure this out on my own. I was worried so much about making other people happy that they had to finally tell me to stop worrying about them and worry about making myself have fun.

You won’t look back on your wedding and thing about all the little problems. You will look back and see how much fun and how excited you were to marry your guy. Relax, have fun, and have a great time!!

Even though it was so crowded Curtis got reservations at this great restaurant right by the ocean. I couldn’t believe it since everywhere was booked. I didn’t know at the time that he booked it before we even got to San Diego. The restaurant was beautiful and had great food.

After the restaurant we went to a nude beach that was really hard to get there. I was skeptical because it was a nude beach and I thought there were going to be so many naked people walking around. When we got to the beach there was no one there. Every other beach was extremely crowded so this was the most romantic spot in San Diego.

We lay on a blanket down on the beach and got ready for the fireworks. He was being really sweet and I had no idea why but I was so nervous. He asked me if I wanted to go for a walk on the beach and I said yes.

After walking for a while he stopped and looked at me. He told me all the reasons why he wanted to be with me forever, he got on one knee, and asked me to marry him. I said yes!

After breakfast he asked me if I wanted to go site seeing and to the beach. That is a dangerous thing to do with me because I love to shop. I knew that he only wanted to do that because I wanted to, but I also knew he wasn’t ever going to ask me that again. So I said yes and tried to keep my shopping to a minimum. We went to so many cool places and saw so much.  Everywhere was so exciting and different!

It got to be around two in the afternoon and Curt said we had to go to the apartment so we could get ready for our night. It was the Fourth of July so I didn’t really think anything of leaving early. At that point I had no idea that it was going to be one of the most memorable nights of my life.

The next day we went on a hike that led to a waterfall. This place was amazing! At that time it was the most romantic place I had ever seen. The waterfall was hundreds of feet tall and there were so many things to do there. There was a rope swing, rocks you could jump off, and a very deep body of water.

Every night we made a nice dinner or went out to eat. Everything we did was very fun and romantic. This is nothing like us and I was thinking about that the whole time. I thought it was because my boyfriend at the time just wanted it to be a great vacation because it was our first vacation without my family but I was very wrong. 

When we got to San Diego it was very late and we are the kind of people who need their sleep so we got to bed shortly after we arrived. The next day we had to take our friend to work early in the morning so we could take his jeep for the day. Then we started our adventure. We went on a hike that our friend told us would be good and it was amazing. We climbing all the way to the top and you could see Mexico it was so high up.

After we were done hiking we went into San Diego so explore. The entire day we walked on the beach and went different store that we don’t have in the Illinois. We were determined to eat as much authentic Mexican as possible so for lunch we had our first Mexican meal of the week, with many more to come. 

Planning a trip in a month is still hard because there are so many things you have to think about.  I had to make sure the flight was at a time that our friend could pick us up and was not at work. Then I had to make sure we could both get off work. Once I did all that I went online to book the tickets.

Usually we go to places in Mexico or Florida that are not as far away so I was surprised to see how much these tickets were. My boyfriend was paying for them but we were very serious so our money was already pretty much combined. So it was still hard to spend so much on tickets. We decided it was worth it and booked the tickets.  We were a week away from our vacation, I thought we had no plans, and surprisingly I was extremely excited!

Drinking and Driving by 3M Northallerton 24/7

I love the quotes you put into your post.  They really take all the stupid things that people say when they are about to drink and drive and show them why they are wrong. People that see this post might think twice next time before they decide to get behind the wheel after they have been drinking.

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Welcome to Miami

I have always heard that Miami is really neat. I just went to San Diego this summer and that is the first time I had ever been in California. The only thing that I didn’t like about California was the cost of living. I bought a box of cereal for around $7.00. I live in a small town so paying that much for cereal to me is crazy!

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A Little Bit of a Technology Rant

I think you are exactly right. If we don’t learn to use every aspect of the Internet we are going to be left in the dust. I don’t necessarily love to blog but I do know that it is important for my professional future. People that don’t know how to utilize these resources are going to be very far behind. I guess whether we like it or not were going to have to learn to love all this new technology.

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Grunge

I really love music too. I like all different types of music and don’t think of myself as bias. However, when you first said this type of music I thought that it would be something that I would not consider. Once I kept reading I realized I enjoyed a lot of the bands that you mentioned. A couple of them I was not aware of. I think that I would consider searching for this type of music to broaden my horizons.

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Europe’s Most Beautiful Wine Growing Region

Your post is very helpful to me. My fiancé and I are planning our honeymoon now and are try to decide where to go. We love to scuba dive so we always pick somewhere like Mexico or Belize to vacation. We also really enjoy wine also. This would be something that we have never done before. It seems romantic as well as very fun!

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Thursday Nights: The way you know you’ve become an adult by My Gears are Grinding

I’m absolutely with you! Last year I felt like I was always going out. Every Thursday I went out with my friends and had a three-day weekend. This year I’m lucky if I have one day in the weekend where I have nothing to do. Although, I don’t think I would change it either, its funny the things that become important.

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It’s a Milestone by J90Allen

I completely agree with you. When you turn 21 you really become an adult. It is not just that you get to drink you are also not held back in many other ways. Many hotels don’t let you book with them unless you are 21 years of age. When you turn 21 it is exciting but now the only thing you have to look forward to is your insurance getting cheaper.

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Thing I love about Fall by NicoleLGill

I love fall too! It’s the start of all the great holidays and most everyone is happy. It’s also so beautiful. I just got my engagement pictures taking and I made sure that I could get them taking in the fall because I though it would be the most beautiful time to take them.

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Happy Holidays by mariahpete

I love the holidays as well, its one of my favorite times of the year. Most everyone is so happy and in high spirits. I absolutely agree with you one the food. I am looking forward to that the most! I feel like during the holidays I eat more and more and never stop.

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What do we have to loose?….weight by Jared Long

I am definitely one of the many eat way too much during this Christmas season. I know it’s terrible but I will even eat more the days before so I won’t get so full to early. I have to go to 4 different places on Christmas alone and eat a meal at every one of them. So I’ll probably be calling you to lose the 10 pounds that I gained during Christmas.