My first Kubie Christmas

Well actually I spent some of Christmas with the Kubie's last year, but this is my first year as a Kubie! (Cool!)
I was stressed because it seemed like our families were going to have conflicting schedules, but it all turned out just fine.
Except that I got the flu, so most of Christmas day I slept.
But anyway it was still GREAT! David loves what I got him and he picked out my presents perfectly!
We were able to spend lots of time playing with people we love and remembering why we love them.
All and all I couldn't have asked for a better "first Christmas" and I'm excited for more to come!
I love being cheesy...

Humble pie please...

Last week we lost power for a few days.
Monday I lost my job.
Tuesday I had a breakdown.
Wednesday I got my job back, but I made a lot of potential employers very angry with me in the process.
Wednesday Night I had strawberry lemonade spilled all over me at a restaurant.
Today I burned a fist sized hole right through the lace on a wedding gown-the wedding is next week.
From now on I stay in bed.

Lonely and Christmas Eve Rant

Lonely
For awhile now I've been feeling very lonely-not in my marriage but everywhere else. I think that when I got married I alienated everyone else from my life. I was just too caught up in marriageville or something. But I realized that none of my friends call me anymore (you have to call people to receive calls) and even most of my family just assumes that I'm too busy and I don't get invited over to family dinners and stuff anymore. It sucks.
So Sunday a couple from the branch invited us over for game night on Thursday. I was thrilled! But Thursday's I work until close, so we got there about 1.5 hours after everyone else (I think 4 other couples were there). They'd already started a game and I just sat there, kind of observing. It was so weird to be in a room with people and just feel like I wasn't even there. I used to be so social, but the few times I even tried to join the conversation I would get all flustered and start blushing! I haven't done that since middle school. It's so strange to feel like you don't fit in with the people your age. Everyone around me is moving forward-starting their families-finishing school-working in their careers-something-and I feel like I'm standing absolutely still. It sucks.

Christmas Eve Rant
I don't remember my family ever doing anything on Christmas Eve. Never. Never-Ever-Ever. So when we were discussing what to do about Christmas it seemed very simple. His family always goes to Kansas City for Christmas Eve. So we'd do that, then spend Christmas day (well morning at least-David wasn't real willing to give up the whole day) with my family. So this is the year my family decides to do Christmas on Christmas Eve. My relatives from Oklahoma want to come up on Christmas Eve instead of waiting until the day of or a few days after to do Christmas. And I have to work until 2 and David has to work until 4. I was so upset when my mom told me I actually almost started crying. The first year David's whole family will be together for like 3 years or something. It's ridiculous and completely unfair. It freaking sucks. I'm having a bad day.

Duh...

So I couldn't figure out where the body of my blog went... Uhm the text color was white. LOL. Ok. All better now...
P.S. Our power is back on!!!

Life Without the Internet AND Life Without Everything For 7-10 Days

Life Without the Internet
So a little over a month ago David and I decided to get rid of the internet at our house. $40 a month for the internet we didn't use that much since we both had unlimited access at work. Then about a month ago I quit my job where I blogged at! *gasp* Hence the lack of blogging. My other job allows me to check things on the internet, but not write a nice long ramble. *sigh*
Maybe we'll rethink having the internet at home.
So you're probably wondering where I'm blogging from then. And thus leads me to part two:

Life Without Everything For 7-10 Days
The midwest has been hit by ice. The only time I can remember school being closed as a child was when we had an ice storm and there was no power. Well we're there again. Early Tuesday morning we woke up with no power. But don't worry David jumped right out of bed and started a fire. Shortly after that the power came back on. *smile* But my work was closed and my little sister's school was cancelled, so I was babysitting her when once again our power went out. *frown* We left for my mom's house. Later that afternoon we came back home and it was back on! *celebrate* Around 10:00 that night we heard a large BOOM and all the lights went out, and the heat... So we threw an extra quilt on the bed and called it a night thinking by morning it'd be back on. No such luck. So I called Westar and they informed me (by an automated system whom I'm told is usually pretty accurate to the hour) that our power was schelduled to be back on in SEVEN TO TEN DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh no.
Sooo my aunt was nice enough to let us stay in her guest room until our apartment has heat again and the temperature rises above the 40 or so degrees it is in there right now.
Yep.
That's all.