What I don't want for Christmas...

I apologize in advance, because it is not in the spirit of Christmas to be ungrateful. However, there are some things that I just DON'T want for Christmas. I thought about doing a quirky offshoot of "12 Days of Christmas" by naming one thing per day 12 days prior to Christmas that I don't want. But then I realized that I have so many things on my list that I really could start now. I can't promise that I will post one thing per day, but it may end up being two or three things per week til Christmas. Here's what's on my "Don't Bother" list:

1) A festive candy/nut/cheese tower from Costco(or any other place).
2) A holiday snow globe or figurine.
3) A microwaveable rice/grain filled neck pillow.
4) Anything from those discount fragrance stores(that includes those box sets from Department stores too...J. Lo, Britney, Beyonce "Heat", or any other celebrity fragrance set).
5) Anything with your job logo on it(though I will take those any other time of year except my Bday and Valentine's Day)

Steppin

I've been taking a Chicago Step class. It's fun. What's more interesting is that there are alot of similarities between Steppin and relationships. With regard to the dance, the instructor frequently says things that can easily be applied to relationships. One night he said as he looked at my dance partner, "Just know that anytime you mess up, you can fix it." Most of the time the teacher is stressing the importance of allowing the man to lead and paying attention to the various signals/direction that the man wants to take you in. There are also constant reminders to the female students to just "relax" and not to fight the man's efforts to lead. I would say that it is more to this than meets the eye.

Baby and me makes....

I had a great conversation with one of my long time male buddies, Mike. As he was talking about how well his kids dance, he stopped and asked me if I intended to have kids. It's funny because I contacted my doctor a couple of weeks ago and asked what the unobvious steps were to getting pregnant, since I'm giving it some thought. My doctor advised me accordingly and I felt accomplished in that I took one step in the direction of having a baby by initiating the conversation with my doctor. Now, I've since moved onto other things(should I get a puppy?), but it's on my to do list.

Mike framed it so well for me and he really has me thinking about having a baby...I mean I was already thinking about it but it slipped down the list of priorities in the last couple of weeks. Mike said that this would be a great time for me to have a kid(s)...he recollected that when he had his first child at the age of 23 that he felt as if he would be raising kids his entire adult life. That gave me hope. Now that I'm ready to "sit it down", so to speak, I have all the time, energy, love and resources to devote to my baby(ies). Wow, you just don't know what day to day blessings are in store when you wake up each day and this conversation was one of them.

Vacation

Ive been gone for a while but I'm back. I read this page tonight and laughed out loud. I have to get back to this...