Day 364 - December 31, 2012 - Last time this year I'll be here!

Okay maybe I should have named this blog the 364 day challenge. For some reason unless I miscalculated (which is highly possible) it only seems I've gotten 364 days for 2012 and not 365. Anyway I wanted to wrap this project up so I walked into work and snapped a photo, even though I'm sure I'm going to get better photos later on this evening and maybe some photos tomorrow. This is the last photo of the work place I'll be taking in 2012. Goodbye for the year big desk I'll see you again in 2013. I'm not doing this project again for 2013. I've done it for two years now the first year was from October of 2010 to October of 2011 and then this year from Jan 1 until today. I love taking photos but I've had enough of the daily pressure of trying to take one photo a day, and also posting sometimes crappy and ordinary photos just to get one done. I think for this year in 2013 I'll actually try printing and selling some of my work if it sells. I also want to get started on the book I hope to write. I'm also hoping this year will be better then last. 2012 was an odd year full of ups and downs. It's like one good thing happened, followed by one bad thing. I'm hoping in 2013 anyone who's jobless that I know will find a job, I'm hoping my parents will be back in their house soon, I'm hoping Shawn and I will possibly get an awesome start on socking away some money to accomplish our married dreams, I'm hoping everyone will be happier and that 2013 will be an awesome year! I'm also happy we are all still alive and that the world wasn't over and ended on December 21.

Day 363 - December 30, 2012 - About time for a new pair

The sneakers I was using for the gym are about 3 and a half years old. My mom actually bought them for me when I was poor and first moved into my apartment. They actually lasted awhile and they are still good enough to wear for any grunt work I might have to do plus I'll probably still use them for softball but I did need a new pair because they were starting to slightly wear down. Yosef gave me a Modell's gift card for Christmas so I went with Shawn and found these training sneakers on sale. I like training sneakers because I don't really run, training sneakers are great for gym time. I also got a headband/earmuff headwarmer combo because I usually just walk to the gym wearing a fleece and need something to keep my ears warm for the short walk to the gym.

Day 362 - December 29, 2012 - Will someone please eat these?

Since I moved my desk at work it's nearly impossible to get rid of the chocolate I have. I love reese's but I'm really trying to be careful about what I eat (although over the past few days I haven't been that great), so I just want someone to gobble these up.

Day 361 - December 28, 2012 - Yelping like crazy

I've just recently rediscovered Yelp! I write a lot of reviews but don't take many photos. This is one of the first photos of a business that I put up on yelp, it's the seating area of the green cactus in West Babylon that Shawn and I go to a lot.

Day 360 - December 27, 2012 - Killer heels and snakeskin boots

I got these heels at Loehmann's before Christmas. I love them, but I have to be so careful wearing them and they hurt the upper part of my foot a little if I wear them too long. On my break from work today I picked up a pair of snakeskin doc marten type of boots for $19. I was wearing the killer heels at work so I took a photo of both on a break.

Day 359 - December 26, 2012 - New mini-obsession

Shawn got me a fit bit one for Christmas. This is a photo of it on my pants pocket in action. It records how many steps you take in day, how many flights of stairs you climb, how long you slept, how many calories you burn and has a silent alarm clock that vibrates to wake you up in the morning. So far I love it but I'm not 100 % sure about the accuracy of the pedometer or how many calories I burn. It also syncs with your computer using blue tooth so you can keep a record of activity.

Day 358 - December 25, 2012 - Merry Kitty Christmas!

Shawn loved his Christmas gift. I got him the necomimi cat ears that move around according to your brain waves and mood. The original ears were white, but I bought extra red and black colored ears so he could customize his ears. Here's a photo of him with the ears chewing on an extra long twizzler.

Day 357 - December 24, 2012 - Earlier Christmas Eve festivities

We spent Christmas Eve with our framily as we normally do. This year the Georgens opened presents earlier then normal. They usually do it at midnight but decided to open gifts shortly after 10 PM. Janell and mom made Linzer tarts so even though I've been working hard to battle with my weight a little bit, I had to have one of these because they are my absolute favorite.

Day 356 - December 23, 2012 - The weird places my cat sleeps

Phantom decided she was going to curl up on some dirty clothes and towels that I didn't get to throw in the hamper yet.

Day 355 - December 22, 2012 - Santa Claus Creeper

Shawn and I went to hang out with his friend Chris who was home for the holidays from his usual residency of Albuquerque, NM. While we were there Santa Claus came to the neighborhood on his firetruck. He ended up staying at this house for a really long ass time. I decided to be a creeper and take a photo of Santa Claus.

Day 354 - December 21, 2012 - A foreshadowing of my favorite mug becoming a ghost

Shawn bought me an awesome mug for one of our monthiversaries. It actually turned out to be my favorite mug. Well I dropped it then Shawn bought me a replacement mug. I took this blurry photo of it, which was interesting because I ended up breaking the second mug he gave me too. So now both mugs are just fond ghostly mug memories for me.

Day 353 - December 20, 2012 - A dragon in the palm of his hand

Shawn celebrated his real birthday today. We had a quiet celebration at home. Terry cooked dinner and made a cake. I didn't work my night so I could come home early and have dinner and cake with him.  He opened up the gifts I got him, the present "my mom" got him...okay it's the present she's paying for but that she made me pick out, and Terry's gifts. He seemed most enamored with this gift that I picked out for him from my mom, this mini dragon statue that can fit on a shelf and in the palm of his hand.

Day 352 - December 19, 2012 - DAMNIT! I'm also dissapointed in Dunkin

I forgot to take a daily photo with my camera....something I've tended to do this year. Luckily I take foursquare photos and this foursquare photo at Dunkin Donuts actually came out good. I'm very disgusted with the Hewlett Dunkin Donuts, the workers there are very nice but they don't have a good selection of drinks, half the time most dunkins I've been to don't even make the correct drink that you want. I don't like their coffee that much, they have no great selection of hot teas, I try to be careful about drinking lattes, mochas or frozen coffee drinks because they have many calories and fat and I hate the low-fat sugar free drinks. I finally settled on a mint hot chocolate while I was waiting for the train and trying to duck the cold. If I can tolerate the cooler temps I'm going to avoid coming in here to wait for the train as much as possible.

Day 351 - December 18, 2012 - The gifting has begun

Went back to work today. I bought in all my presents for everyone. Barbara gave me the first present of the work gifting season, a bag of chocolates and a santa chocolate lollipop.

Day 350 - December 17, 2012 - That's a lot of cookies

Good thing I baked these yesterday. Didn't feel well, my IBS acted up so I stayed home from work. I took a picture of all the cookies that everyone else has to eat.

Day 349 - December 16, 2012 - Mountain of Chocolate chips

I baked a giant batch of chocolate chip cookies for work and just for the holidays. I quadrupled the recipe, so this is 4 bags worth of chocolate chips.

Day 348 - December 15, 2012 - Shot of hot sauce

I organized a birthday party for Shawn, we did it on the 15 because it was on the weekend. Dave poured two shots of hot sauce to challenge Gregg to a hot sauce shot. Then he dumped his hot sauce on the floor while Gregg downed his. This was a great shot though, it looks like a weird ad for the fun you could have at Dave & Buster's. My camera seems to like Randi - she always comes out awesome in my photos of her. 

Day 347 - December 14, 2012 - Big balls!

I met my cousins for my first trip into the city to see the Rockerfeller center tree this year, I'm going again with Shawn on December 23. Makes up for last year when I made no trip to the tree. These big balls were on a decorated tree in Bill's Bar & Burger Grill where we ate dinner before seeing the tree.

Day 346 - December 13, 2012 - How I now listen to CDs

After the second accident I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to listen to CDS much since I always had them on when I was driving in the car. But now I just use my computer at home and my office computer if I'm working in the back to hear some tunes.

Day 345 - December 12, 2012 - Found a gym

Went to synergy gym for a trial work out. I liked it so much and the pricing was really amazing for a gym so I decided to join. Looking forward to working out more now. I was doing okay working out on my own with the just dance wii games but paying for the gym is definitely a better motivating factor to make me go.

Day 344 - December 11, 2012 - I could move into work now

Adam moved into our office and officially became part of the reference department. For awhile he was half tech services/ half reference. He was going to take this desk but Milli offered it to me because I have more to handle as the quasi art librarian then he does. So I gleefully took it. I have so much more space to spread out now, if the library decides to get us new office furniture I'm going to fight them to keep this desk lol.

Day 343 - December 10, 2012 - Pink Princess Tree

Sometimes I think it looks like Shawn lives with a 3 year old and not a 30 year old, that he lives with his daughter instead of his wife lol. This time the reason for this was his doing. It was our monthiversary again (could possibly be the last one if the world ends). We sometimes buy each other a gift and try to go out on a date, and still celebrate our dating monthiversaries even though we are now married. I bought him a red fleece hat and he bought me a disney princess pink fiber optic tree.

Day 342 - December 9, 2012 - Puddles

It was raining, went to D&D after work to wait for Shawn (even though I really hate this D&D now - it's the best place to wait for a train or for Shawn). My umbrella leaked some puddles on the chair so I took a photo.

Day 341 - December 8, 2012 - My first bat mitzvah

Shawn and I were invited to attend my friend Michelle's daughter's bat mitzvah. We ended up missing the temple service so we went to the party. It was interesting to see new traditions I never saw before, although I was having a weird time personally so I didn't enjoy myself as much as I could have.

Day 340 - December 7, 2012 - This is just what I needed

In a few months time I've destroyed two USB chords from carrying them around in my bag all day. I was looking at extra chords when I was in CVS and I found this one. It's perfect because you can pull and snap the chords around the circular center when you are done charging which keeps the actual chord pretty safe from fraying during much traveling.

Day 339 - December 6, 2012 - Healthy foods

Maybe the world is coming to an end on December 21 as many people are speculating. I'm eating healthy foods and choosing mostly healthy stuff over sweets. It's a shocker but I got on the scale at the end of November and couldn't believe how much I weighed, now I'm trying to eat healthier and indulge in sweets less, I've also joined a gym and am working out more.

Day 338 - December 5, 2012 - Bad Kitty!

Checked out a ton of Christmas books at work including this Children's book. Apparently there's a whole bunch of Bad Kitty books. We read this to Vincent too when he came over!

Day 337 - December 4, 2012 - My interesting trial at world gym

I've embarked on a quest to join a gym. There are two by my house I could walk to. World gym and Synergy. Tonight I decided to try out world gym. It was okay but I was the only woman there, and they had less cardio machines and more weights. I later learned lots of guys coming to this gym apparently pump steroids. Leave it to me to naively spend a work out session with a bunch of guys who are potentially using steroids. Sometimes I'm just like Stephanie Plum.

Day 336 - December 3, 2012 - Deconstructed Christmas Tree

Probably a majority of my December photos are going to have to do with Christmas because I just love it so much! We don't have a tree in our apartment, well we have two tiny ones but with the cats and the apartment already filled to the brim a tree is not feasible. So every year I put ornaments on the ceilings and the walls and our apartment turns into a deconstructed Christmas tree.

Day 335 - December 2, 2012 - Pretty cookies which I did not eat!

Covered the Babylon Village Tree lighting and Wassail bowl for the beacon. I was supposed to work at the library but ended up switching Sundays with Danielle so I was able to cover this. I love this photo of the cookies, I actually refrained from eating the cookies, been trying to lose some weight by cutting out a lot of sweet eating.

Day 334 - December 1, 2012 - Can't even enjoy my advent calendar's first chocolate!

I woke up this morning after only maybe 3 and a half hours of sleep. I remembered why I only had that little amount of sleep and I was immediately pissed off and angry again before the day even started. I got myself together, packed my power bar and yogurt although I'm very depressed, angry, tired and pissed today so I was doubtful about even managing to eat any food. I also feel even worse because it's officially December 1 and I was looking forward to being happy and excited over that fact because it's very close to Christmas. I got to work and opened up the first day on the Starbucks advent calendar I bought two weeks ago from Starbucks to use when I'm at work. I am so upset that I didn't even want to eat the first piece of chocolate that came from the calendar. I didn't know what to do with it so I flung it into my chocolate basket I figured if it's still there Monday maybe I'll eat it, if not someone else will enjoy it. I really don't want to be upset like this the only thing it's good for is the possibility of losing a few pounds from lack of appetite. Then those pounds immediately get put back on again when I'm emotionally back to normal and I can actually eat again. I wish I could lose weight in a normal healthy way. I did manage to eat my yogurt at lunch, no matter what I still will drink my coffee. When I bug out like this for whatever reason I can't get food down, my stomach is in knots I can get some yogurt down because I don't actually need to chew it.

Day 333 - November 30, 2012 - It's a Nelly Christmas Day

Janell is my best friend in the whole world. Even though we speak on a regular basis I don't get to see her very often. Since I tend to crash my cars and she doesn't have a car or a license either , we have to hang out usually on my days off and by using public transportation. It's been the first time I've seen her since October. I trekked to Merrick first on the train, we saw breaking dawn part 2, then she came back on the train with me to go to Babylon's Village Christmas. Plesser's put out a statue of Santa and I made Janell pose with it lol.

Day 332 - November 29, 2012 - It's almost December!

Two more days left in November, then it's time for one of my two favorite months of the year! I love Christmas, and even though I'm 30 I still get excited like a little child for it. I love wrapping gifts, drinking holiday beverages that are non - alcoholic, decorating, spending time with friends and relatives for the season in between working, going to Christmas events it's all so much fun!

Day 331 - November 28, 2012 - I live in a pink world

Pink is my favorite color. So when I acquire a new possession I will try my hardest to make sure it's pink before anything else. Unless of course it might have to do with phantom or coffee, I have my priorities.

Day 330 - November 27, 2012 - Fugly, tacky commuter shoes

These are the shoes I've been using to commute back and forth to work in the past week. They are fugly, and they are tacky because they are a goldish brown, but they are comfortable. They also don't ever match what I wear to work. I wear heels at work and although I've gotten used to heels and I do love them there is no way I'm walking a long distance in them. For some reason I just don't want to wear any of my normal flats anymore unless I have to dress up for an event because right now I have a limited amount of heels. So I walk to the train and walk to work after getting off the bus or train in these fugly tacky things that were resurrected from my office after I left them there about a year in a half ago hoping someone else would take them lol.

Day 329 - November 26, 2012 - Computer upgrade

Shawn's been upgrading our computers. This is his new PC case before he added the necessary components to make it a working computer. He has IT talent, I don't understand computers beyond using software programs, if Shawn wasn't around and I needed a new computer I'd probably just blindly buy something because hardware speak is a foreign language to me.

Day 328 - November 25, 2012 - Some of my friends are now having babies

Kate and Rob are having a baby, today was Kate's baby shower. This was one of the few photos I took at the shower, I still have to post the other ones. From a side view Kate looks pregnant but even though she has a baby bump from a front view it's sometimes still hard to tell she's pregnant. She's very lucky. Currently I'm the fattest I've ever been in my entire life, I'm trying to change it and lose some weight but until I actually do manage to get some poundage off I'm constantly being asked if I'm pregnant by library patrons and it annoys the hell out of me. It also makes me upset, I wouldn't mind if I really was pregnant but I know I'm kind of fat please don't remind me by asking me if I'm going to have a baby.

Day 327 - November 24, 2012 - Mr. Mold!

I went to help my parents finally. It was hard to get to them right after the flood happened, finally Shawn and I both had a small window of time to help with the Sandy flooded parent's home aftermath. I took out my camera and snapped some photos since it was a new and bizarre scene. This wasn't the best photo I took but it was definitely a photo of the day photo IMO.