I'll Never Do That Again

It is surprisingly difficult to come up with 1 thing each day that you want, especially when everything you want can be solved with only one wish, on one day - lots of money!

So, I thought that maybe I would do this again next year. Unlikely! I will keep to my normal sporadic posts, and maybe instead of 1 a day I will just accumulate one list and get it all off my chest in one post.

I hope everyone's Christmas was wonderful and you got everything that you asked for.

The next holiday on our list, New Years! Yup, the biggest drinking holiday of the year (don't we say that about every holiday?).

What's your New Years Resolution?

All I Want For Christmas - Day 25

Welcome to the final edition of All I Want for Christmas.

Today all I want for Christmas is:


To be with my family.

I hope you all have a wonderful and happy Christmas!

Christie's Wish List:

All I Want For Christmas - Day 14

Now, I am going to get into some selfish, vein, and stereotypical stuff.

Last night, Lover and I went on a hunt for ice cream! We decided that A&W was going to be the best we get. Yumm, right? One better our A&W is an A&W AND a KFC, double yumm!

We pull up in the drive-thru, because like I was going to put on a bra to go inside at 10 at night! I knew EXACTLY what I wanted!

"Can I have the biggest root beer float you have, please?"

The voice spat back at me, "I'm sorry we no longer sell A&W products."

Me, "WHAT!?"

Lover, "Huh? Oh it's all changed!" points to the menu.

Me: "HUH? Ugh! What the fuck?"

Lover to the speaker lady, "Do you know where other A&W's are?"

The Bitch spat back out, "They're all on the west side. 75th ave and Dunlap or Thunderbird."

WOW! Like I am going to drive all the way over there!!!! That would be like a 60 minute drive for some ice cream! Ugh! we ended up going to Safeway and getting ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, and nuts. I had a BIG bowl.

This morning I didn't feel do hot! I felt ROUND and blubbery, and like I needed to lay off food for a month. Leading me to the 14th item on my wish list...

All I want for Christmas is...

To loose 20 pounds!

Christie's Wish List:

1. Paid off furniture.
2. My dream home.
3. A nap.
4. My hair done.
5. The new PostSecret book/go to the event.
6. Laser hair removal.
7. A milkshake.
8. Work Out.
9. No student loans.
10. A massage.
11. My nephew.

12. Get caught up.
13. Motivation.

14. Loose 20 pounds

All I Want For Christmas - Day 13

Just over a week ago I started another course on the journey to obtaining my MBA. With each class I am reminded of how UNmotivated I am to actually go to school. In fact, the only motivating me to continue my education and get an MBA is:

1. I can't afford to pay back my student loans, just yet.

2. The job market sucks and everyone is wanting an masters, not a bachelors! BOO!

BUT... I still can't afford to pay back my student loans, so I have no choice BUT to continue with school.... So for the 13th item on my wish list...

All I want for Christmas is...

Motivation for this class and all coming classes!

Christie's Wish List:
1. Paid off furniture.

2. My dream home.

3. A nap.

4. My hair done.

5. The new PostSecret book/go to the event.

6. Laser hair removal.

7. A milkshake.

8. Work Out.

9. No student loans.

10. A massage.

11. My nephew.
12. Get caught up.

13. Motivation.

All I Want For Christmas - Day 12

YIKES! I let myself get far behind!

I guess it has been a busy week and I've had lots of things to do and get caught up on. SO! I guess that leads me to #12 on my wish list.

All I want for Christmas is...

To get caught up!

Christie's Wish List:

1. Paid off furniture.
2. My dream home.
3. A nap.
4. My hair done.
5. The new PostSecret book/go to the event.
6. Laser hair removal.
7. A milkshake.
8. Work Out.
9. No student loans.10. A massage.
11. My nephew.

12. Get caught up.

All I Want For Christmas - Day 11

I miss my nephew more than I can even explain. Whenever I go shopping, Lover has to physically and mentally keep me away from the little boy section so that I don't get wrapped up in how much I love and miss him.

Papa (My Mom's boyfriend) named him Mean Motor Scooter before he even saw him and it's kind of catchy.

There is no way that I can say no to those pretty blue eyes, this little man will always have a special hold on his Auntie!

All I want for Christmas is...

To spend it with my nephew.

Christie's Wish List:

1. Paid off furniture.

2. My dream home.

3. A nap.

4. My hair done.

5. The new PostSecret book/go to the event.

6. Laser hair removal.

7. A milkshake.

8. Work Out.

9. No student loans.
10. A massage.

11. My nephew.

All I Want For Christmas - Day 10

I think I am starting to run out of things that I want. And then I realized that for Lover's birthday a few weeks ago, I got him a massage and I remembered how long it has been since I have had one. So today,

All I want for Christmas is:

A 90 minutes massage from Massage Envy

Christie's Wish List:
1. Paid off furniture.
2. My dream home.
3. A nap.
4. My hair done.
5. The new PostSecret book/go to the event.
6. Laser hair removal.
7. A milkshake.
8. Work Out.
9. No student loans.

10. A massage.

All I Want For Christmas - Day 9

I think about money a lot. I love money. For those people who say, "Money doesn't buy happiness," well, you are right. Partially right, that is. Money cannot BUY happiness, but money sure can make things a-whole-hell-of-a-lot better!

Take today's Christmas wish for example, all I want for Christmas is...

My current and any future student loans paid off.

Do you know how much it effing costs to go to school these days? It's expensive! To add to it, no one is hiring, but they want you to have a degree, so that when they decided they are going to hire someone, they can pick up, because you are qualified and then cross their pretty little fingers that you will desperate enough for a job, ANY job, and pay you about the same and a high school graduate is being paid to clean gutters at the local Pigley Wiggley. Education, huh? I might have a Master's and $60,000 in debt, but at least I don't have to clean gutters!

That's really want it feels like. I'm no longer different from gutter cleaner, expect he is cleaning gutters and I feel like the gutter. YIKES!

Christie's Wish List:

1. Paid off furniture.

2. My dream home.

3. A nap.

4. My hair done.

5. The new PostSecret book/go to the event.

6. Laser hair removal.

7. A milkshake.

8. Work Out.

9. No student loans.

All I Want For Christmas - Day 8

Today, I just want...

Everything to fall into place, at the right time.

I have nothing else to add...

Christie's Wish List:
1. Paid off furniture.
2. My dream home.
3. A nap.
4. My hair done.
5. The new PostSecret book/go to the event.
6. Laser hair removal.
7. A milkshake.
8. Work Out.

All I Want For Christmas - Day 7

Last night I had a craving, I have this craving often. Rich & Creamy.

All I want for Christmas today is...

A Jack In The Box vanilla milkshake with extra whipped cream and two cherries...

They are my favorite, and besides the Weed Bowling Alley (local BA backhome) they have the best milkshakes that I have ever had. They taste almost exactly like what you would get if you ordered one in a restraunt, but better!

What defines a good milkshake?

1. Texture. The milkshake has to be rich and creamy, but a thick rich and creamy. I want to have to struggle to suck it's delicious white material out of the straw. Mmm...

2. Sweetness. Milkshakes can't be too sweet, but they can't be NOT sweet either! A non-sweet milkshake would most definitly defeat the purpose.

3. Ingredients. You can't be lazy and just blend some ice cream and milk together and call it a milk shake. Melted ice cream is NOT, I repeat, is NOT a milkshake. Milkshake requires a specific syrup. The flavored syrup can make or break a milkshake.

Word of the wise. Wendy's milkshakes SUCK! They are horrible. Jack in the Box was closed my the time I felt the urge to satisfy my sweet tooth. I was left with othe alternatives, all closed - except for Wendys. I will never eat a milk shake from Wendys ever again. YUCK!

Can anyone guess where I am going to lunch today?

Christie's Wish List:

1. Paid off furniture.

2. My dream home.

3. A nap.

4. My hair done.

5. The new PostSecret book/go to the event.

6. Laser hair removal.

7. A milkshake.

All I Want For Christmas - Day 6

Welcome to Day 6 of my all I want for Christmas special.

All I want for Christmas is...

Laser hair removal

How many of you are SICK and tired of shaving? If you are like me, then you don't like ANY hair what-so-ever! The only hair my body should have in on my head, and my eyebrows. That's it!

My hair grows so damn fast, it seems like when ever I shave, the next day I need to shave again. I don't have time for that crap and I don't have the energy for that crap. I'm sick and tired of my toes and fingers turning into prunes because I'm in the shower so long... SHAVING!

I'm tired of cutting myself and the bleeding not stop for HOURS! I know I am not the only one who has noticed that when you cut your self shaving, even if it is just the smallest of cuts, that fucking thing produces to much damned blood, it NEVER stops! So this year for Christmas, I want laser hair removal. Not just one session either, I want a WHOLE subscription for it, so that I can keep going back until I have absolutely NO MORE hair!




Christie's Wish List:
1. Paid off furniture.
2. My dream home.3. A nap.
4. My hair done.
5. The new PostSecret book/go to the event.
6. Laser hair removal.

All I Want For Christmas - Day 5

All I want for Christmas is:

The new PostSecret book, so that I can get a ticket to go to the event at The Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe on 12.07 @ 7pm!!!!

If you don't know what PostSecret is you should go here. Some of the stuff I don't believe, some of it I laugh at, some of it I cringe at, I get teary eyed at, I smile at, or I get angry at. MOST of the secrets have me wondering if the C.I.A is taping into my brain and broadcasting my life little pieces at a time to the general public. Then, having them conspicuously post these as there secrets. I am almost always grateful to know that I am not the only person in the World, state, country, who thinks or does certain things. Those are my secrets and I'm not telling which ones are true!

Christie's Wish List:

1. Paid off furniture.
2. My dream home.

3. A nap.
4. My hair done.

5. The new PostSecret book/go to the event

All I Want For Christmas - Day 4

It's DAY 4!!!!

All I want for Christmas is:

My hair done.

For the last couple of weeks, I have sat in my desk at work and picked off my split ends. It's really amazing how many you have, or how many strands of have your have. Either way, I need my hair done. I need a weave of colors put back into it, including 2 dark browns, because my hair is getting far lighter than what I would like. I need it re-layered. Not horrible big gaped layers, but a little bit of layer. This would be wonderful! Something similar to this girl. Except a little bit more light brown, less red, and some blond highlights.

I really, really, want this for another reason as well. My work Christmas party is coming up on the 16th and I always try to look my very, very best on this day. Not really to impress anyone in particular, BUT because my work has a lot of men, in fact I am 1 in 3 women who work here. So, the party is where they bring their wives. Girls will always compete with one another, not that I in any way what anything other than a work relationship with their husband or boyfriend. It still feels good knowing I am the prettiest girl in the room, and there is NOTHING wrong with that. :D

Christie's Wish List:

1. Paid off furniture.
2. My dream home.

3. A nap.

4. My hair done.

All I Want For Christmas - Day 3

All I Want for Christmas on Day 3 is...

A nap.

I could really use a nice nap. One in which I don't have to listen to our upstairs neighbors do the dirty. One where the T.V. is shut off, because the microwaves (or are they magnetic?) disturb my sleep. One without a crying Cinderella; while I love this girl, sometimes I think she does things on purpose - like cry at 2 am in the morning and Lover just ignored it in hopes that I will get up and calm her (I do), and she still doesn't calm down so I lay down and let her fall asleep on my belly while she is on her belly and I wake up an hour or so later and she has drooled all over my boobs and it dripped into my armpit and I go to put her in her OWN crib, he OWN bed and she wakes up and starts crying again. Yea, that! I want none of that during my nap.

What I do want, is to curl up in my beautifully soft and plush bamboo blanket, to lay on my freshly washed sheets, rest my head of a that perfectly plump pillow, sink into my bed like I was laying on a bundle of feathers, and dream about laying on the beach in the late spring, sun glistening off of my forehead, toes in the sand, and reading a nice romance novel.

THAT is what I want for Christmas today and I don't think it is too much to ask.

Christie's Christmas Wish List:

1. Paid off furniture.
2. My dream home.
3. A nap.

All I Want For Christmas - Day 2

Its Day 2 of The All I Want For Christmas special.

To know me is to know that I don't ask for much. In general, I take initative to make sure that people are comfortable, happy, and have what they want when in my presence. I hope that others would do the same for me. After all, doesn't the phrase say, "Treat people the way you want to be treated."

Today, is out design center appointment. This probably means nothing to you, but to me it means the next 30 years. Lover and I get to pick out everything we want for our home from the tile and carpet, to the cabinets and accent walls. We have a limit of $19,740 in upgrades (all of which will be rolled into the mortgage). $3,800 of that is reserved for our BIG master shower. We choose to forgo the shower and seperate tub, for one bigger shower instead. I know what you are thinking. And you are totally right! That is exactly why I want a big shower. Having a big shower leaves a little amount of money left to upgrade.

The following needs to be upgraded:

- The laminate tile to ceramic 18X18 tile
- The carpet to that new stuff where the elephant lived on it and then they cleaned it and it held up REALLY well. Yea, that recycled stuff. I want that.
- From Oak cabinets to maple (I hate the seeing age lines on wood, eventually we will upgrade to bamboo cabinets, cause I LOVE bamboo everything)
- Sun Shades on all the windows, because here in AZ we need all the protection we can get.
- A Washer and Dryer
- Upgraded appliance (fridge not included)
- Painted accent walls We figure that those 3 upgrades will pretty much take all of our money for upgrades.

Which is really sad, because that leaves no spare money for the fun stuff like:

- Surround sound throughout the house (see, this is nice because the speakers are flush with the wall, there are no wires showing, and it's THROUGHOUT the house.
- Our fridge. It would be awesome if we could roll this into the mortgage
- Nice lighting, cause lighting can be really expensive.
Pool table
A Bar (yea, I will have one, maybe not right away, but I will.have.one)
- Granite counter tops
- Marbella in the bathroom instead of the white ceramic.

All I want for Christmas is...

My dream home, equiped with all that was mentioned above.

Christie's Christmas Wish List:
1. Paid off furniture
2. My dream home

All I Want For Christmas - Day 1

It's Day 1 of the All I Want for Christmas edition in this blog.

We're buying a house, and the other weekend we bought furniture. Technically, we put it on layaway, same thing, right? We plan on using the First Time Home buyer tax credit that we will get to pay it off. However, this is assuming that we close escrow by June 30th, which might be a problem depending upon when they have the house finished and ready for us to move in. It would be so nice if that furniture was paid off before that time. Let's say, today! And without someone else's income other than mine and Lovers.

All I want for Christmas is...

Our layaway furniture to be paid off.

Christie's Wish List:
1. Paid off furniture

My Bright Idea

First, let me just say that I hope all of you had a wonderful and happy and non-stressful Thanksgiving. I had a surprisingly great time. I met Lover's Grandma, who I love. I mean, she reminds me of my Grandma, in the sense that she is nothing like a grandma. She is fragile or withered and she still has a lot of furry in her. Not to mention, she made a mmmm mmmm mmm food. I couldn't help but say mmmm as the food was entering my mouth. YUM! YUM! YUM! I asked Lover while we were there if his Mom's food was as good, because we were going there later. He shrugged his shoulders.

DAMN it! That means no, and if Thanksgiving food isn't as good as this then it isn't good at all, because THIS is how good food is SUPPOSE to taste.

His Dad will eventually learn to talk to me, instead of taking my man and doing yard work, ON THANKSGIVING. Some people never rest. I mean, it was Thanksgiving and he could have spent time with his future daughter-in-law and Cinderella. It is what it is. Lover says that we are going to start going over to his Grandmas house more. Which is cool.

OH! When we move to our house, we will be WAY closer to her. Right now she is like an hour away from us, but after we move, she'll be like 20-30 minutes away. And she said that she would help us decorate. Which is GREAT, because I have the ideas in my head, but I don't really know how, what, or where I want something or anything.

Lover fucked up and asked his Dad to help us landscape. Ugh! I can do it by myself! Everyone knows that the more adults you have involved in something the more opinions you have, and I don't want any fucking big mouth opinion ruining the wonderful plan that I have for our front yard. I guess the help will be nice and I wont complain, but I just want to make it very.very. clear that I COULD do it without any help.


Now, to the bright idea. For each day in December I am going to add to the All I Want For Christmas list. That way you all know exactly what it is that I want for Christmas and maybe you can help a girl out! Anyway, tomorrow will start Day 1. I've had this planned for awhile, and I know the STUPID posting thing screwed up because I scheduled this all last week. So, you might have already gotten a sneak peak. You're just lucky.