HAVE YOU...

Seen this baby...?

//He's a cutie//We're related//

[but shhh don't tell his mom that the cute genes come from from my brothers side of the family]

;)

SKI WEEKEND!

(Sorry that I have been absent for the last week. I've started a new job near home that has required me to spend 14 hours of my day at work, then the rest I've been sleeping, or spending all of my free-time with friends. I have barely checked my email or paid attention to anything other than work, sleep, and the occasional spare moments for fun time... BUT I'm BACK now!)

Finally!

It's here!

My first official Ski Weekend!

Wooo!

Are you excited?
Because I am!
I have been waiting for this trip for what feels like months now (but really it's only been about a month since I was asked to go)!
I've been counting down the weeks, the days, and now the wee hours until my friends and I leave... for a weekend of Shenanigans!!!

Finally!



Unfortunately for me, I think this is how my weekend will look. Let's call it the Chuck Ski Weekend Assumption/Equation:

Snowy Weekend/Mountains of White Fluffy-ness


+


A Cute Snowbunny (i.e. ME)

=



AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN!


If I come back without any injuries... BE HAPPY/PROUD/Relieved! Because I definitely will be!

RUNNING LATE

Well Christmas is two days away... I mean one day now that it's 12:00am. This year due to some setbacks and some procrastination I did not send out ANY Christmas/Holiday cards. However, I did manage to fill out all of my Graduation Announcements! and will have them all ready to be sent out the day after Christmas... but that still does not make up for the fact that I completely slacked at Christmas this year.

:(

I was browsing through Etsy.com this evening and found these suckers which will definitely be coming home to me soon so that I may have them ready for NEXT year's holiday season. Is that pathetic or what?

[Happy Holiday Folded Note Cards]

I love how simple these are... definitely my style and I think the perfect card for my friends and family next year.

Go check out Hello Harbor's store for other great items... Just don't buy ALL of their stock of cards, I need some for my set to send out next year!

Here is a snip from the HH shop:

Hello Harbor specializes in personalized stationery, custom invitations, calling cards, greeting cards and other paper goods. Every piece is designed, printed, cut and folded in house. I strive very hard for high quality custom items and great customer service.

Hello Harbor will be debuting its line of 2010 Wedding Invitations in January!

Did I mention that the holiday cards also come with envelopes!? (You could probably tell by the image above) And that the HH shop has a blog? Hello Harbor Look at me giving the HH an abbreviated name like we're school girl bffs...

Clearly I'm out of it this evening.

Someone shoot me please, I'm running on 3 hours of sleep and clearly I'm a bit too easily excited right now, excuse me. I promise to never get this out of hand again.

(Well maybe not 'promise' but I'll make a conscious effort to try to tone it down)

TRAPPED!

This weekend my home state will become victim to the first real blizzard of the season.

[Image courtesy of new co-worker Kelly @ tublr]

Unfortunately for me, I am stuck at work until midnight this evening and will NOT be trucking 45 minutes home in the ice and snow up I-95. Luckily my bf lives five minuted from my work; unluckily, the snow is supposed to be worst during the hours of 4AM and 4PM. Which means I will not be going home for another 24 hours... (let it be know that I have not been home for the past 36 hours due to final exams--which I might add were the LAST of my Undergraduate College CAREER! Woooo!!)

I have a feeling being trapped in my boyfriend's apartment, unable to go anywhere because EVERYTHING will be closed, will result in a bad remake of Cabin Fever. In order to save myself from a bloody death, I have decided to have a plan. This plan consists of ideas for what to do in the case of an emergency (i.e. a Snow In) while at your boyfriend's apartment.

So without further ado:

What to do When Trapped
--I mean snowed in--
in a College Town:

1. Go Sledding... DUH!

It's snowing outside. Grab your sled, a giant Tupperware lid or its box, or grab the preferred sled of Towson students: a lunch tray from the Glen... then find a HILL and have at it!

2. Find a radio and your local 24-7 Christmas station and turn up the tunes--while fixing a delicious meal or BAKING holiday sweets for yourself (and your significant other).
Visit Ree the Pioneer Woman for great recipe ideas! I just picked up her cook book and since then I have died and gone to food-making heaven! You bet I'll be making something delicious this weekend while (embarrassingly) singing along to the music!

Alvin & the Chipmonks is my personal childhood favorite...
What's yours?

3. Hit up the library, if you're a book-aficionado like myself, an afternoon spent relaxing and reading a good book sounds like a prime plan.

Hopefully my library hasn't realized that I own them my first born child, and I'll be able to get a book or two for the weekend.

4. Finish your Christmas shopping ONLINE! Tonight is the last night for delivery by Christmas...

Get to clickin'!
There are only 6 more days of shopping left!

5. Snuggle up on the couch with a mug of hot coco and settle down to a marathon of Christmas movies. Some of my personal favorites include:

Miracle on 34th Street

A Christmas Story

[BEST SCENE EVER!]

And because just Kelly said so:
"uhhhh, Christmas Vacation is a good Christmas movie"

Christmas Vacation

--a la Chevy Chase--

6.You're in for the long haul... why not celebrate the season. Call/Text/Tweet some friends and have a Christmas Fiesta!!!

So why don't you visit ME!

(or someone as awesome as me )
...at your local liquor store
[only if you're over 21 of course] and stock up on supplies!

Then FIESTA!!!

MARYLAND... WHERE IS MY SNOW!?

Dear Maryland,

December is here.
You can't tease me with a full day of snow and expect to be finished.
Bring on the snow Dang-it!

Ho, Ho, Ho,
Chuck

p.s. Will this song make you bring on the snow??