New Toys, Black Friday/Cyber Monday, Interviews, and Witty Wednesday

I have so many new things to play with!!! On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I upgraded my phone to the LG Lucid and on Thanksgiving afternoon, I bought a Kindle Fire! They both got to me on the same day! I didn't know where to start. I just keep switching back and forth between the two and my poor ipod touch is lying neglected on the coffee table, begging to be played with. Sorry ipod, you will be on the back burner for a while I get to know my new electronics. I'm not very tech savvy so it takes me much longer than it should to figure out the simplest things. Any other person can pick up my phone and do things that I never would have known were possible. Luckily, I mostly want the phone for texting and email and I mostly want the Kindle for reading. I have that stuff all figured out and if all else fails, that will be enough for me!

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have both come and gone for another year. I'm happy and sad about it. I'm happy that I can stop scouring for deals and spending all of my money. I'm sad that that I can't have all those good deals all the time. I'm happy to get on with the rest of the holiday season. I'm sad that tacky Christmas music will be full blast until New Years. I had some success on the shopping front. I got a down comforter that has had me sleeping like a rock, a lot of movies, every season of Bones, clothes, a ring, and some headphones. The wonderful thing about it is that I didn't have to pay much for any of it. The other good news is that it will be like Christmas before Christmas while I get all of my packages in the mail. Even though I bought it all, who doesn't love presents!?

I've been interviewing for open department manager positions at work and I'm anxious to see how it all turns out. I had one interview a few days ago and I have a second one this Saturday. Wish me luck!!

WITTY WEDNESDAY!!!!

"Black Friday: because only in america do people trample each other for cheap goods, hours after being thankful for what they already have."

Personally, that's what I love about Amurika! Check ya' later!

Cold, Insanity, and Argo

It is starting to be winter outside! I love winter and I like the cold but I'm sick...as usual. I started getting that tell-tale tickle in my throat last night and this morning it was on fire. I'm medicating like crazy and I want to drown my illness in drugs. Wish me luck! Another way that I can tell its winter is when Samcat gets cuddly. A cold kitty is an unhappy kitty so she gets all up in my junk as often as possible. I can't sit or lay down or sleep without her becoming a vital part of my anatomy. It's adorable...but it also makes it hard to do things like seeing and moving and functioning. On the bright side, she doesn't wake me up every morning anymore. Baby steps.

Erin and I have started doing Insanity. It is very truly insane! When I look back on all of the sports I've played, I can't remember a workout so intense. I'm on day eight and I've lost 6 lbs and have dropped a pants size. I love that the movement is so accessible. I don't need weights, I don't need to be insanely flexible, they encourage you to work on form over speed and to work at your own pace. I'm even to the point where I can move without my muscles screaming at me all day. I had a pretty rough first few days. Walking up and down the stairs seemed like torture and climbing the ladder at work was hell on earth. My muscles have finally adjusted and I can walk without looking like a freak again. :D

Yesterday, Adrian and I went to see Argo. I was on the edge of my seat the ENTIRE time! I don't think I've ever been that stressed out during a movie before. My palms sweat and I almost couldn't handle it. Because I know how to read, I knew what was going to happen, but that didn't stop me from NEEDING to know what happened next. The casting was amazing, everything was stimulating, we got a pretty amazing flashback to the late 70's/early 80's, and we got to see Ben Affleck with the most atrocious of facial hair. I think this movie is Oscar gold and I can't wait to see how it does during award season. I would leave my token hottie pictures at the bottom but there isn't one attractive thing about that time period. I'll leave the trailer for the movie instead. Deuces!

Samcat, Disney, and Movie Monday

Samcat is back! My mom brought her to me about three weeks ago and I couldn't be happier. Our first couple of days were rough because she was so set in my mom's routine. She had developed a habit of waking up and being fed at 5:00 am. So at 5:00 am on the nose, that silly girl woke me up to feed her. I immediately searched for a solution to our problem because if she didn't knock it off, she was going to end up homeless. I love that cat, but I'm not capable of feeling anything but rage at 5 in the morning. I've employed some pretty entertaining behavior modification techniques but it's still a work in progress. At the end of the extraordinarily long day, I'm glad that she's here and will be even more excited to be re-united with Lily and Lola. Once my crazy cat lady status is restored, I will be complete!

I getting so excited to go to Disney World!! December 27th can't come soon enough. I just want to jump ahead to being in the happiest place on earth. Erin, Adrian, Phil, and I are going to live it up for 12 days in Orlando. We're going to check out Universal and wizard around in Harry Potter Land. I can't think of a better vacation for a group of nerds like us. :D

MOVIE MONDAY!!!

I saw a movie a while back that I loved but I haven't blogged about it yet. I realized my oversight today and immediately sought to correct that issue. Pitch Perfect was, by far, the most entertaining thing I've seen in a very long time. From beginning to end I was enthralled. I laughed, I gagged, I tapped my toes to some rocking tunes. It was ACAMAZING!! If that college existed, I'd most certainly be going there. Anna Kendrick was a breath of fresh air. She is my favorite thing about Twilight and she might just be my favorite thing about the movies this year. Between What to Expect When You're Expecting and Pitch Perfect, she has had a really great 2012 at the movies. I'm putting my favorite clip from the movie below. It is of a Riff Off which is about the nerdiest most amazing thing that I've ever wanted to be a part of. Enjoy it and I'll check you later! Deuces.