It is getting very close to Christmas, with there only being thirteen days left.  It is time that I force myself to start wrapping all of the gifts that I have already purchased and get them under the tree so that it does not look so bare.  With this in mind, I need to pick out which wrapping papers to use this holiday season.  Here are my choices.  Please take a look and let me know which ones you would use to wrap all of your immediate and extended family’s gifts with.  Click each thumbnail to enlarge.

These are all actual wrapping paper selections.  You can buy these and others here.

A good blogging buddy of mine was doing a weekly meme called “Things Thursday” for a bit, since she is no longer doing it, I am taking it over!  It is fun.  Every Thursday, three random things will be posted.  Anyone who wants to participate can shoot photos of the three random things and post them on their site on the following Thursday, with a little explanation behind the photos.  Leave a comment here that you participated so that everyone can take a peek.

I am a big fan of photos, so this is an opportunity to use the camera and have fun.  Feel free to steal the picture above or the button below for your weekly posting.  If you love me…you will play! {do you feel guilted into doing it yet?}

This Weeks Things:

01. Favorite Knick Knack or Art Piece in your house.
02. Where you blog from.
03. Your Christmas Tree or other Politically Correct Holiday Symbol.

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I have a new tenant.  I love when someone new to my blog rents it.  I get to meet someone new and exciting.  I will be going over and getting to know Jeremy at Haunted House Dressing.  I hope that you can take a second and do the same.

A collection of thoughts and other stuff not worthy of a full post.

Today is the day I stand up, dust myself off and look forward.  Things have gotten too damn depressing around here!  I am a strong, good person and will survive all that life throws at me.

I have a great family and two of the greatest friends a person could ever ask for in life and I am very grateful for them in my life!  Thank you!

I have made some VERY caring and wonderful friends online and cannot thank everyone enough for the kind emails and thoughts.  If I have not responded to you, or have and it made no sense, I am sorry.  This last week has been a week of reflection.  A week of looking deep inside of me and finding myself again, the me that got lost somewhere between childbirth and diaper changing.  If you thought I was funny before…wait till you meet the real me!

Today was productive.  I worked out, I took Kaiden to ballet, I went grocery shopping, I cleaned house, I cleaned out the garage (quite a chore), and I made an appearance outside of my house for the first time this week and cleaned up the front yard so that my neighbors do not think that I am an asshole.  I did not cry or think any miserable thoughts ALL day.

I will return to work on Monday.  As much as I would love to stay home and get paid to be miserable on my couch…I don’t think my boss would go for that for too long.  I cannot even imagine what my desk looks like.  I am thankful that I have an understanding employer.

I have to finally get up and lose the baby weight - it is the one thing that has made me so miserable with myself and in turn let me push that misery on everyone around me.  I have set some goals for myself, so that I can get back to running again - I was never happier than when I was running 5 miles a day.  When I meet all my goals I am getting a boob job.  When I get skinny, my boobs become non-existent.  Nothing big, I am not a fan of big, but I am a fan of perky!  This will be my reward for myself, a nice little “lift!”

What have I missed?