Birthday!

My birthday is coming up this Saturday on January 14th! I can't believe it's already my birthday again. This year seemed to go by so fast! I guess that's what happens when you're having fun.
This year's events will be a party at my house with the theme of You Are What You Drink. We were originally going to go to Las Vegas to celebrate but some unexpected expenses came up so we picked this theme because we figured it was relatively cheap and easy to throw together in a week's notice. I'm super excited, although I still don't know what drink I'm going to be. I was thinking Sex on the Beach but realized I don't have a cute swimsuit. I'll have to look into rush shipping if I can actually find one I like online. I still need to figure out how to decorate the house too.

If anyone wants to get me something for my birthday but you're lost on what to get, here is my Amazon Wishlist. I'm still kind of updating as I think of things, but these are what I can think of off the top of my head. I also want to mention that I love gift cards and I don't think its impersonal or tacky to give them.

I'll be half way to 50 in 3 days! Daaaaang.

Eat Healthy 2012!

Anyone's New Year Resolution getting healthy and losing weight? I seriously suggest watching the movie Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. This documentary changed the way I look at a lot of things and really showed me the importance of fruits and veggies in our diets. Not to mention it was one of the few documentaries that really held my interest and motivated me to be healthier!

2011

Here are some of my favorite pictures from each month in 2011

January


February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Hopefully 2012 is just as much fun, if not more! :)

NYE Hot Pants!

Just got them in the mail!!! I'm so excited!

Christmas Goods!

So my Christmas was absolutely amazing. I was definitely spoiled and did, probably too much, spoiling myself. This Christmas has definitely changed my perspective on the Holiday. After this year, I can definitely look forward to next December 25th. These are some of the gifts I got this year:
A Pinkish-Orange Kindle case [and Kindle]
A Tetris coffee mug
A Snake Ring [reptile club]
Gone With The Wind on Blueray [my favorite movie]
The most amazing vacuum I've ever seen [after I used it, I cried a little]
Flower Bomb perfume
Octopus candle and matching matches
Funny nerd magnets
A necklace with a mini hand-held mirror on it.

I got a few other things I can't currently take a picture of including a really awesome lotion set my sister gave me and an incredible vanity that Trev is currently setting up right now so, pics soon.


I am mostly thankful that I got to spend Christmas with my family & second family this year. I am so thankful to have such caring, fun, lively people surround me. I am a lucky, lucky woman.


[Update] Here's the vanity! I know its really cramped in that spot but my apartment is just to small for such fabulous things.. But I love it, and sorry I look like a weirdo.. I'm trying to hide Trev's messy bedside table behind me.

Pumped for Christmas?

This weekend we set up most of our Christmas stuff. We had to go to Target and get a new tree because after getting last year's tree out of my moms basement and home, we realized that the bottom part was missing. But we got some new lights and took out all of the xmas decorations we have and put them up. [including Trev's cheesy nutcracker collection.. but this year, I have a cute nutcracker as well. Pic soon] So our house pretty much looks the same, except instead of all of our Star Wars toys everywhere, they were replaced with Christmas Star Wars toys. Nerd family much?
Last year for Christmas, Aiden got an origami calendar which had one origami paper for every day, with instructions on the back on how to fold it. He did 3 or 4 every weekend this year, and this weekend, we poked a tiny hole in each one and put them all on a fishing wire and strung them around the tree. There were around 180 pieces of origami, which includes cute little ones he made up himself. He's getting so good at them! I think he's going to be getting more origami stuff this year so I can't wait to add to our collection! We might have to get a bigger tree next year to hold them all.
I still need to do loads of Christmas shopping. I've only bought presents for Trev, Aiden and 2 of my 3 sisters. I hope I can get it all done in the next week, maybe sooner if I'm getting stuff online.
For those of you interested [and I know you are] in getting me a Christmas present, I have an Amazon wishlist here. <3

I will update pictures of my nutcracker and the origami tree when I get home from work today [hopefully, if I have time. If not, than sometime soon]


Happy Christmas FF's!

I'm back!

I decided that I wanted to blog again. I love Tumblr, so I'll definitely be keeping that, but as far as descriptive blogging goes, I prefer to do it here.

I wish I could say I had a lot of new and interesting things happen to me since last updating this blog, but that's just not the case. I still live in the same apartment, I still have the same amazing boyfriend, I still have a serious shoe addiction and I'm still the same semi-bad-attituded Alex D. I stopped blogging because I was uncomfortable with so many strangers knowing so much about my life, but after being absent in the blog world, I decided that I missed the outlet of writing (and I'm just too lazy to hand write events in my life).  Not to mention I was looking back through this blog and noticed some very important dates I would otherwise have no record of if I hadn't kept up.

I'll probably have an up to date or a 'catch up' blog soon. I can't post as much about missing time right now because I'm blogging from work. But to write about the basics, I've had a few awesome vacations, an incredible 1 year anniversary with the love of my life, an uncountable amount of shoe purchases, a new job, and I'm sure a few more memorable & notable events I'll have to think about.

 I'm not as interested or dedicated to updating my blog every day, as I have been in the past, but if I have something interesting and worth sharing, I will.