one:
Even though I am foregoing gifts this year, I am obsessed with Christmas. I decorated my entire home the day before thanksgiving and have been blasting Christmas music nonstop recently. And while I'm touching on Christmas music... two things... Celine Dion (I will only listen to her Christmas cd, none of her others) and Alvin and the chipmunks. Celine's Christmas CD is beautiful and moving. Alvin and the chipmunks reminds me of the childhood fun of Christmas and frankly makes me laugh hysterically. Christmas has changed so much for my family now with how much it has changed. My sister and I have had a hard time coping with this the last 2 years. But it is still my favorite time of year, and I cannot wait to celebrate it with my own family I will someday have.
two:
Appropriate wedding attire does NOT include: jeans, hawaiian shirts (unless you're at a destination wedding and that does not include Arizona), or a skin tight super short dress that should only be worn at a nightclub... in Vegas. I have observed all these at recent Arizona weddings.
three:
I am afraid of sponges.
four:
The whole "don't wear white after labor day" can't really apply in Arizona. Its eighty degrees all the way into November! Cream or off white is appropriate until Thanksgiving I say!
five:
I may be 6 feet tall but I will wear heels and you better get over it.
six:
My love of baked goods and pizza will always bulldoze my attempts at being gluten free. I can never do it 100%. I don't mind brown rice bread for sandwiches and grilled cheese, but gluten free cake and cookies just don't work for me! Yes I've had gluten free pizza dough, but if you haven't had the wood fired pizza at Liberty Market, you are missing out.
seven:
Miranda Lambert's music and lyrics are so empowering. Especially with dealing with a broken heart and spirit, she will pump you up to push through the hard days. Plus she can definitely belt out a tune with a twang that makes it so much fun to sing along too.
eight:
One of my biggest pet peeves... people who are too lazy to put away their grocery or shopping carts in the proper place. That would not be a curb, the parking spot next to you, or the sidewalk. CART RETURN my friends is where they go. Now, when dealing with Costco, I will put some blame on them. At least for the Costco by my house that is. They did a horrible job a designing that parking lot and did not put a cart return in every aisle, and there it is a pain. However at the grocery store or Target, on multiple occasions someone is parked one measly space away from the cart return, and they travel the exact same distance to put it up on the curb in front of their car. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! How lazy (or dumb) are you? I actually have a picture of this from a few weeks ago. I pulled into a spot next to the cart return and there it was... in front of my space NEXT TO the cart return was a shopping cart on the curb. in this instance the person had to go FARTHER to put the cart on the curb than they would have gone to put it in the correct place.
nine:
I am beginning to love living in Arizona, especially Gilbert. Yeah I know, east coast city girl, but I am finding so much that I love here. And funny that when I go up towards places like Scottsdale that most would I assume I would enjoy more, I find more reasons why I like to stay in the east valley. Let's also be honest... I'm not rushing back to 300% higher cost of living in DC. But can we please build a Metro here? Not the dinky and badly planned light rail.
ten:
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 13
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