The Ramblings of a Strange Little Pixie

Seriously. I am so ready for this year to be over with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My weekend has been busy because family as been in town. They leave tomorrow but I don’t think I’ll be able to see them much today. I have a million and one things to do because I have to work tomorrow and Wed. FUN. The party was nice Saturday. Of course the birthday boy could of cared less. We all know that the first birthday is never remembered.:) But at least he can look back at the pictures and know how much we love him!

My mil had a get together yesterday. It was suppose to be small but when my MIL says small I should know better. I just think it would have been nice to have a small family gathering but apparently that’s impossible in this family.:/

So I made resolutions this year. I’m going to try my damnedest to stick to them!!!!!!!!! Here they are….

1. Plan our wedding. We have decided to have the reception in Jan. 10. We met in January so why not have the wedding then? I am now more positive about the whole thing and ready to start planning.
2. MOVE!!!! I really want out of this apartment. 
3. Lose 10lbs. I really need to do this. I hate this weight that I have put on.
4. Save money. I really want to have enough in my savings to be able to live for 6 months in case anything happened.
5. Plane more trips. I would like to go to New York and Indy this summer. I would also like to plan a couple of small get aways with DH. And of course I need the yearly vacation with mom!
6. Stay in better touch with friends and family. I have been so bad about this. I need to call or at least email people more. I need to get out of my cloud of gloom and start being sociable again.
7. Be a better Muslim. I have really been slacking lately. I need to stick to praying on time and learning more.
8. Scrap more. I am so behind on my photos. I am buying the 365 Project from Creating Keepsakes when it comes out. I’m not doing the picture a day because that’s not really my style but I think the album itself will help me. I’m setting a least one night a week where I will print and put my pictures into the album starting this week. I need to catch up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I am not stressing myself out today. I have a small list and it will get done today!!!!!

• Straighten up the apartment. I just need to put some stuff away and vacuum.
• Do three loads of laundry:sheets, towels, whites and iron some uniforms
• Go to Publix
• Finish up competencies for work. I’m such a slacker.
• Organize my coupon binder and menu folder

Ciao!!!!!!!!!!!

I worked Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and it was two of the roughest days. It was just emotionally draining. I love my job but sometimes I really hate it. How is that even possible?

I got some nice things this year. From my momma I got….

• a new purse
• a new soft, pink blanket
• a Grimmerie of Wicked
• a leather bound copy of Wicked and a Witch’s Son
• an Epson picture maker Zoom, which is just way too awesome!!!!!!!!!
• Season 4 of Grey’s Anatomy
• Dvd of A&E’s version of Pride and Prejudice. It’s the best remake ever.

My secret Santa gave me a Miracle on the 34th St. and I got a Starbucks gift card and Vanilla bean body spray from Bath and bodyworks from co-workers. My MIL bought me and DH a really nice Waterford crystal bowl for our anniversary.

On today’s to-do list….

1. Attend birthday party
2. Clean living room, laundry room, bedroom and computer room
3. Do a load of towels and sheets
4. Go through some files and label new file folders
5. wrap my gifts for nieces and nephews
6. Work out
7. Call and make hair appointment
8. Make a list of resolutions and goals for 2009
9. Write out Thank you cards
10. Make menu

I hopefully can get motivated. Yesterday was horrible because I slept most of the day.

I have none!!!! I went to the mall and the whole purpose was to get a pedicure and pick up gift cards from Macy’s. Well, the pedicure I pulled off but I forgot the friggin’ gift cards!!! But did manage to pick up some gifts for myself, hahaha. Trade Secrets I picked up Shampoo and Conditioner. I also found OPI’s Jewel of India! I adore that shade. W00-hoo! I stopped in at Ann Taylors and picked up a pair of Capri’s and a cute white top. It was buy one get one free. So one outfit cost $40. I stopped in at New York and Company and picked up Yoga pants, a wallet and earrings for $26. So I’m heading back Monday to pick up the gift cards and I need to stop at Bath and Bodyworks. The line was way to long yesterday.

Things I accomplished yesterday besides my shopping binge….

• I cleaned most of my bedroom. I vacuumed every crevice, under the bed, under the dressers and rearranged some things. I also washed all my pillows!!! The only thing left in there is to get some stains up with my new steam cleaner. Oh, how I am in love with that steam cleaner….
• I guess I wasn’t too productive:/

On my list today….

1. Clean apartment
2. Do 3-4 loads of laundry
3. Drop off mail at Post office
4. Make list of Christmas things I need to pick up
5. Make my menu for the week
6. Go thru some paperwork
7. brush the kitties
8. Iron my uniforms for next week. I wouldn’t have to do this if I got them out of the dryer when they were done.

• I’m exhausted. I worked Tues. and Wed. and man did I run my bum off. Needy, needy patients. Decided to go out last night. Big mistake. Ugh.
• Saw a really, really bad crash last night. Luckily there wasn’t a passenger in the car because they would have been dead. A Mustang pulled out in front of an ambulance responding to a call. CRAZY. That is such a big problem down here. People don’t give cars that are moving really fast with lights the right of way. I see it all the time and just dumbfounded by the stupidity I see in it.
• We had a fab Christmas party yesterday. I ate way too much.
• We didn’t meet our customer satisfaction for gainsharing. Big surprise there. Seriously there is no pleasing these people. EVER. I actually had a family member accuse me of their father not eating breakfast because he couldn’t get to it. Um,yeah. We sat him in the chair, placed the tray in front of him and he ate everything. So, whatevs.
• But on the bright side I did get a $50 American Express Card (only 50 because I was there half a year, others got a 100) and a $20 Target card from the Sisters. Better than what I got from the other hospital!
• So today I will spend cleaning my apartment because it is crazy messy up in this place.
• Oh, and I got a  search hit for “I hate Pixie”. So, not right. Not right at all……

• Floated for the first time yesterday. Med/Surg of all places. I survived. I really didn’t want to go but I didn’t have a bad day at all. Well, things were different and I couldn’t find anything but it was a good day! Especially when my only discharge gave me a hug goodbye. The best thing about my job!!:)
• I’m done with my closet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s cleaned and organized! I need to buy a couple of things but I’m going to hold off on buying anything new until we move. I did get rid of lots of stuff. It’s so nice to be able to find stuff!!!!!
• After December I might start picking up some overtime. I want to plump up my savings. I really want to be able to have a nice emergency fund. I’m thinking about working per diem at a hospital down the road. I’m going to look into that in the spring. I also have to start looking into a BSN program.
• Boo, I have to work tomorrow. It’s not that I don’t want to work but I am freaking tired!!!!

That sums up my boring day….and this boring post……

I had a nice little low key Eid. Went to the masjid of course, had lunch at MIL’s house. Only her niece and family came by. It’s so lonely without our Aunite and uncle!!!! They are making hajj this year and I’m really missing them. We had curry chicken and goat, stew chicken, roti and dhall. And of course Sawine which is my fav. Our tradition  for the last couple of years is to watch an Indian movie. This year it was Kabhi Kabhie. I came home with the intention of doing a couple of things and returning to MIL’s but it ended up taking a really long nap. Oops.

I did manage to clean out my shirts and uniforms in my closet. I got rid of a lot of stuff. I am almost done with my closet!! I’m going to spend an hour on it tomorrow and hopefully finish it.

Things accomplished:

• Cleaned apartment
• Laundry is caught up so I can once again do a load a day and not be out of clothes
• I washed the kitty beds. Shakes is most grateful:)
• My purse is cleaned out and organized

On tomorrow’s list:

1. Errands: Target, Hallmark and Walgreens.
2. Gym
3. Mall for a pedi
4. Make Christmas card list and start on my cards
5. Make a couple of menus
6. Brush the kitties
7. do a load of laundry

I’m off to hit the gym!!! Got to burn off the calories from today!!!:)

The word of the day. I really wanted to sleep in today but I couldn’t. I have to much to do and I have to work Friday and Saturday. BLah!!! But, I have to be thankful that I have a job. Work was busy yesterday so I didn’t make it to the gym like I wanted to. But I think I walked/ran around enough at work to make up for it. But I did manage to get most of my to-do list done!

I was able to get motivated to make it to the gym this morning. I really was lazy and only burned 110 on the treadmill but I figure it’s better than sleeping in bed, right? Afterwards I met DH and some friends at Dunkin Doughnuts which is always nice!

On the list today:

• Two loads of laundry
• Manicure
• Make my menu for the week
• cook up some chicken so me and DH can have some for lunches
• Clean my kitchen and bathroom
• Go thru some mail
• Spend some time cleaning out my closet

I got two gifts from mom in the mail yesterday. Grey’s Anatomy Season 4, which is perfect timing because I just finished Season three and a book about Wicked. If you haven’t shad the chance to see Wicked you have you are really missing out!!! It’s an awesome show! So, now I’m off to tackle my to-do list….

For the last two years I have been quite lazy. My house use to be cleaned and very organized. I was organized. Not so much lately and it’s really starting to bug the hell out of me. So I made a list!! I figured for someone who only works three days a week I don’t get anything accomplished. So I broke it into categories. I don’t expect to get it all done but it’s a start!!!

So I here’s what I did….

• Workouts
• laundry
• cleaning, two rooms on my days off instead of the whole apartment on one day.
• cooking
• task like, menu making, errands and such.
• Then I picked a room and I’m going spend at least thirty minutes a day for a week organizing it. This week, it’s my bedroom closet.
• Then I made two other list for the week, List A and List B. List A is things that need to be accomplished and List B is things I would like to accomplish.

On my to do list for tomorrow.

1. work
2. make up my menu for the week
3. a load of whites
4. gym, if I don’t have a terrible day at work!

So I’m off to pick up my MIL from the airport.