Playing Catch Up... Part 1

Last month, I was having fun blogging about just about everything. :P Christmas week was so busy that I kept putting off posting updates. Boy, am I sorry I did that. Now the details are fuzzy at best. Too much to recall. But I'll give it my best shot! I will say this right now though... I've watched ALOT of Christmas movies since my last post. So many I can't even recall all the ones I saw, so I won't be listing them. :P

December 22nd, 2009
- Target Tuesday with Dad. :D  I dunno why, but it never gets old or less fun. But then again, I was the girl who would walk to Target for little to no real reason.


December 23rd, 2009
- My friend, Sarah, and I had plans to hang out while she was down from Washington. So, she, her boytoy, and her sister picked me up and we all took off for the day's adventure!

- BJ's, a time honored tradition. It was Aimee's first time and I think she enjoyed it. :) I scolded Sarah for depriving her little sister of the treat that is BJ's with their deliscious mini pizzas and pizzookies for so long! Despite being relatively less crowded than usual, service was soooo slow. Friendly, but slow.

- We headed for the mall, and poor Waltson (I'm sorry if I botched that spelling, Sawah!) did what most husbands of several years have to do..... Drop us off, while he went to find parking. :P We headed for a dress shop to find Aimee a dress she could wear as the maid of honor. :) And like everything else with the wedding plans, the dress was found quickly and I believe Aims even said she could wear it again for a dance. It was fortunate that the dress was found so easily, as there was a time issue. Aimee had a party to get to and kept texting her friends throughout lunch and shopping, for which I teased her about. :P "Like, OMG, Erin! They're taking SO long to get our food here."

- We headed to Sarah's Mom's place to drop off Aimee. I had fun talking to their birdies.. Tehe, the one was soooo chatty!

- The three of us took off to go look at lights in this lovely spot in Huntington Beach. Man the neighborhood must work together to get it all set up! We parked the car and just walked up and down the area. It was amazing. There were some truly lovely areas and some pretty fun scenes too!

- While Waltson waited in the car, Sarah and I went into David's Bridal and picked up her dress. It was absolutely beautiful and so very very her. :)

- And then it was a quick stop to Target for a forgotten item for my Mom, which turned out great as she needed to go, too! Also a good thing I was there, cuz I asked the important questions, like.... Do you have plates and things for the reception. :P

It was a great day with my fwend, and I got to know Waltson alot better... Well alot better than I knew before, which was a brief meeting last year and whatever Sarah told me. But I got to see for myself, and get a feel for him and how he treated my fwend. I gave him my stamp of approval. :)

The only bummer of the day was when my digital camera decided to finally die. It's been acting up for weeks. At first, Dad and I thought it was just the screen on the fritz. But that last week of its life, I noticed the pics were getting more and more on the blurry side. And before the day even bagan, the darn thing died on me. :( Bummer cuz, I took a cute pic of Sarah, Waltson, and Aimee, which did not come out. Ah well.


December 24th, 2009
- Dad and I went to the movies for the first time since April. We watched Avatar (2009) and I absolutely loved it! Visually stunning and I just loved the story and the action and everything! I know it wasn't easy for Dad. For me, I'd been to the movies a couple times since April. But I am thankful he took me.

- We picked up some fud and went back to his place to watch a movie (or was it a couple movies?).

- He pulled out Josh's camera, so I had one to use for Sarah's wedding. But we went to look at cameras at the store(s?) to see if there was one I really liked. And as half of them had dead batteries to look at them, I couldn't pick one. Not that I'm entirely certain I'd know what I was looking for/at anyway.

December 25th, 2009
- Mom and I watched movies almost all day long. I'd told her I was going to tie her down and force her to watch whatever I picked. :P So, we watched: Enchanted (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009),
 and I ca't recall if there was another movie after that....

- At some point in the movie watching, Nana came over with goodies. She brought cookies from our cousin Debbie's place (Yum!), a box of See's Candy (drool), and she gave me a little gift. :)

It was a nice and quiet day. And later (that day or the next), Mom admitted she was distracted some, which she suspected was my plan. She was right. And I'm glad it worked, if only a little.