facebook etiquette, moving plans, mother nature

• When I'm surfing the facebook, if I made all the comments that are actually going through my head as I look at other people's profiles, one of two things would happen: Some people would be completely weirded out by my affection for them and the others would hate me. You know what Thumper's father says, "If you can't say nothing nice, don't say nothing at all." Well, if you ever think I'm not saying much, now you know why. 

• Joe and I are moving. Nowhere exciting, just my parents's house. Okay, I guess my mom would think it's exciting, but for a girl who has recently gained her independence from her family, I can't help but feel like this is a step backward. However! There is a reason for it. During the summer I'm going to move up to GP with Joe where we will split the rent with another couple.

• Well I've officially had my first pregnancy scare. Aunt Flow was a couple days late this month and I was freaking out. With all our upcoming plans for the year, I wasn't sure how a baby would fit in. And I've still gotta graduate! Needless to say, even though Flow was late she came with a vengeance. Owie :(

Aaand, those are my thoughts and my worries. School starts up this week and it should be alright. I'm done class by 11 everyday. Boo yah.

What are your thoughts, folks? Leave a comment! Gimme some love! Or some constructive criticism. Whatever you're in the mood for.

Quiz: 2012 Review

1. Did you keep your New Year's Resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't make any last year, but we are trying something new with our theme for the year which I'm sure will be great. 

2. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Oh my word it seemed like everyone was having babies this year! My sister-in-law, Katee, had a baby boy in May and named him Hector. And then a bunch of couples who got married a year before Joe and I were all having their first kids, including our good friends Brent and Carol who had a baby girl in November and named her Ada. 

3. Did anyone close to you die?
No friends died, but our family did lose my grampa's brother, Neil, just after Christmas. 

4. What countries did you visit?
We just visited the States this year. We made it to Utah in May and then tried again in October, but we all know how that turned out :P

5. What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
A degree!  

6. What dates from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory and why?
October 5th, the car accident. 

7. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I got a 3.4 GPA this semester and I am pretty darn proud of myself for it. Let's hope I can do the same thing if not better next semester. 

8. What was your biggest failure?
Rugby. This season did not sit well with me at all.

9. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yes. 

10. What was the best thing someone bought you?
Joe bought me a new bra for Christmas and I love it. 

11. Where did most of your money go?
School, rugby, and the accident

12. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
My good friend Selina got married this year and I was reeeaaallllly excited when she told me.

13. What song will always remind you of 2012?
That stupid "Somebody that I used to Know" song. It'll take me a while before I like that song again.

14. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? happier.
b) fatter or skinnier? Fatter for sure. I haven't worked out in so long!
c) richer or poorer? Neither? I'd say we've stayed pretty steady. 

15. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Baking.

16. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Nothing.

17. Did you fall in love in 2012?
Please, I did that back in 2010, but I'm happy to report I'm still in love.

18. What was your favorite TV program?
Once Upon a Time! 

19. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No. 

20. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing. 

21. What was your favorite film of this year?
Rio. I know it didn't come out this year, but we became obsessed with it. I absolutely love the soundtrack!! and my honourable mentions are: The Avengers, Brave, The Amazing Spiderman and Les Miserables. 

22. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
I just had chocolate chip cake with my family. I turned 22.

23. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Not having a concussion for the last three months of the year would have been really nice.

24. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012?
Lacking. My staples are t shirts and jeans. Exciting, I know. 

25. What kept you sane?
Joe and my parents.

26. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I found the NieNie dialogues this year and fell in love with Stephanie Nielson and her little family. 

27. Who do you miss?
Amy. She moved back to Rosemary this year and it was a bummer not having her around.

28. Who was the best new person you met?
Joe and I made some new friends at church this year and we love them! They are the Hills and we think they are super cool.

29. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012:
When everything that could go wrong does go wrong, God is still watching out for us and has a plan.

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had some great New Year's Celebrations and they were safe in whatever they were doing.

Christmas was good too, nice and relaxing! We spent Christmas with my family this year and it was nice to spend a few days at my parent's house. I have to tell you about the gift I got for my mom because I am just so proud of myself. 

I found this software made by Roxio that converts old VHS movies to digital format so you can burn it onto a DVD. It's called Easy VHS to DVD3 Plus. Yeah, a mouthful, I know. So what I've been doing is converting our old family videos and putting them on DVDs for my mom. I just gave her one DVD to begin with, but now that the hubby is gone I've started up the process again so that I'll hopefully have all the videos converted before school starts up next week.

With the New Year I've come to a decision. I've decided that I am going to stop referring to my husband as Johnny on the blog because I've grown tired of it and feel ready to move on. His name is Joseph, and that is what I will call him here from now on. In case you didn't know, I introduced him on the blog by calling him Johnny Lingo because of the pineapples he brought over when we first started going out.  

Speaking of the New Year, have any of you made New Year's resolutions? Or do you even believe in them at all? I've made resolutions on and off before and I am always terrible with keeping them. However, starting this blog was part of a new year's resolution, so I guess I'm still doing alright with that. 

Joe (my husband, remember?) and I haven't made any resolutions this year, but we've decided to try something else instead. We decided to come up with a family theme for us to focus on for the year and maybe we'll throw in some monthly goals to work on later, but for January we're just focusing on the theme. I even got all gung ho and made a little picture using google docs. So here is our theme and goal for the year:

Calories

Here's a snippet of the conversation that happened on Johnny and I's most recent video chat

Johnny: "So I found out how many calories are in that soup I told you about."
Nani: "Oh? What's in it?"
J: "Just a cup has 1000 calories!"
N: "Well it's a good thing I'm not scared of calories."
J: "..."
N: "I eat calories for breakfast!"
J: "..."
N: "I eat calories for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!"
J: "..."
N: "And then you know what I do with them? I burn them! Hahahahahaha!"
J: "..."
N: "Baby, why aren't you laughing? I'm hilarious!"
J: "You are so sad."

I thought I was pretty funny, I was laughing my head of and Johnny just shook his head. After all my laughing that made me think of Happy Gilmore and one of my favourite lines...

*Warning, this scene contains mild language. But it's still pretty funny.

How to decorate a ghetto Christmas tree

There are three elements to creating a ghetto Christmas tree:

Laziness, stingy-ness with a dash of creativity.

Step 1. Be too lazy to buy a real tree and too stingy to buy a full-size tree. Heck, be too cheap to buy a tree, period. Just pick up a branch from your back alley. I stole mine from my mother and it was even missing one of the stand legs.

Step 2. Be too cheap to buy real decorations. I have two ornaments on my tree that are actual, real ornaments. Everything else is just made up. Don't have garland or lights? That's okay. Do you have long, necklaces? Those will do. Don't have a Christmas star? Do you have yellow construction paper? That'll work.

Voila! A Ghetto Christmas Tree!

This is my tree. I wish I had a proper camera that worked (hint, hint, Santa) so you could see it in its full, ghetto glory. But alas, this will have to do. Is that a candy necklace you spy? It certainly is! Who said your decorations couldn't be edible?

I love it when I laugh so hard I cry.

I'm supposed to be doing homework.

Instead I've been watching Ellen videos on youtube.

If you want to be productive, this is not the way to do it.  

Anyhow I found a video I just had to share.

Enjoy :)

It took several minutes after the video was done for me to stop laughing. And crying. 

It's about time!

Johnny and I just did a video chat for the first time tonight and OH MY GOSH WHAT WERE WE WAITING FOR????

We've been doing a semi-long distance relationship for almost 2 years now and we never got around to trying video chat. Honestly I can't remember what our justification was. I think I just might be too stubborn for my own good when it comes to keeping things old school.

What we used to do was just text each other all day and then have anywhere between a 15 minute to 3 hour phone call at the end of the day before we go to bed. Luckily we get free minutes for calls between our phones so it wasn't hurting the phone bill at all.

But now this has opened up a whole new world for us! One in which for me, it makes it 5 times harder to say goodbye at the end of the call. Tonight I tried talking Johnny into sleeping with our laptops open all night but he didn't go for it. I'll try again tomorrow...