Where's Czesia?

Czesia has been HIDING, no I'm not dead!

No really I haven't given up on my blog just life got in the way. Call it life, call it lack of creativity, call it writers blog...whatevs.

Let's see since I've blogged last (pardon me some of this may be very random)...

I was way sick for a while as you've read before. I ended up staying in bed for a whole weekend, it was terrible! This sickness I thought was because I was reducing my carb intake, but it was really because I had some kind of bug plus a mixture of a medicine I was taking and other things.

The holidays flew by and we enjoyed lots of time with my in-laws.
The Ladies
The Gents
Me and My booboo
He looked smokin'
A part of my gift! I also got a scarf, a candle, and tea!
this is my Christmas tree, I love all the cards :)


and I finally made an artichoke! I don't know if I cooked it enough though, the goop in the leaves is it supposed to be crunchy? So here are my instructions

Step 1) ooh and ahh over the pretty artichokes

Step 2) Attack the ArtichokesStep 3) boil a couple inches of water with lemon juice, garlic, and bay leaves


Step 4) Make a contraption so the artichokes steam (I had a picture of the inside but I'm too lazy to try and re-upload that)Make sure the towel you put over the lid is damp! I put it on dry and you should have seen that thing light up like dynamite!
Step 4) Make your dips. I've heard butter is good, and alos mayo with balsamic vinager but there is no way in hell that I'm eating mayo...soo.. This dressing is okay, I'm not into dressing that much. Butter is off limits, so bacon ranch it is.

I liked it!
This yogurt was also yummy, it's from yesterday. Plain nonfat yogurt with orange segments and a tablespoon of flax meal.

Plus today I dyed Nana's hair, and it's pretty cool looking like a burgundy color.

I read all of East of Eden, and The Help. Both are highly recommended so pick up a copy.

My new years resolutions are to:

Lose some more weight, stick with this diet (I've lost five pounds since Christmas!)
Stay honest with myself and others
work out 4 times a week
Go to the Dr. if I'm sick (Marc added this one, haha)
Get at least a B in my classes
Not intentionally skipping class this semester
Save 200 dollars a month

I have high expectations!

Todays food list:
Hot water with Lemon
grilled chicken over lettuce, shaved carrots, and cherry tomatoes
Plain nonfat yogurt with half a green apple sprinkled liberally with cinnamon (holy yum)
Two egg omelet with mushrooms, spinach and a tablespoon of feta, dill and cayenne on top
chicken pesto vegetable soup
glass of 1% milk with vanilla extract YUMMYUMYUMMYUMMMYY! I can't wait too go home and drink this up! Maybe after my work out and shower so I can feel extra awesome!


One of my favorite looks since I've blogged last
My hair was up in a bun!

Well I think that's about caught you up, hopefully you are doing well!

Don't forget to subscribe to my blog, so I can feel special! K thanks bye!

My weekend in a nutshell!

So sometimes it is hard for me to blog Friday and Saturday because those are my off work days, and I try hard to stay FAR FAR away from the computer. This weekend though seemed to last through Sunday!

So let's recap the weekend shall we!?!

On Friday I woke up early and went to get my hair done at this lovely shop...



Such a teeny weeny picture but just trust me when I tell you it was SOOO nice to get pampered!
I chose a dark color and got a nice thinning haircut, i have a lot of hair so it took a long time. Since I went dark though I wont have to go back until February! Sorry i don't have a picture at the moment, I forgot my scan disk, and my phone at home!

After some errand running, Marc, Alice, and myself went to my sister in laws new house to celebrate her birthday! Her house is really awesome, I snagged some pictures off the Internet!





They have it a lot nicer inside though, the downstairs is a formal dining room, and they are decorating now! I'm happy for them, and it made me excited to eventually own my own house!

The kind of house I want looks a lot like this...



with this inside...

and the kind Marc wants looks like this...


with this inside...


Minus the deer heads. Let's just say that he can have the garage to do whatever he wants with and I get the rest to decorate (he actually mentioned this to me! YES)

Anyway, we had a great time and Andrea's!

On Saturday, we spent lots of time hanging out with Nana and went out to go Christmas shopping!

Off our list:
Uncle Tom
Ciocia Linda
Aleksa
Marcus
Tim
Rayel
Dad
Arleen
Mom
Gordon


YES! We got most of it done, I just have to buy a few more things for Marc and I'm done! I'm not going to say what I got anybody in case they read my blog, especially Marc, he's sneaky!

There is also a cool story that went along with one of his presents but my lips are sealed until Christmas!

After shopping we went to Red Robin for dinner, and were going to go see Wall Street at the Budget cinema, but winter weather warnings were all over the place so we decided to go home before it hit (it never really hit us, but a couple hours north of us got 8-12 inches!).

Instead, we cleaned the apartment for an hour and a half (we timed it so it wouldn't be daunting once we started, we could stop at that time).

Then we finished up our night with the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

It was cute!

Okay now on to Sunday,

Marc had to work at noon so he left early to shovel and salt the walkway. I got to enjoy some alone time and wrap the presents! They will be shown on a later post, but I used lots of stickers, and ribbons, and fabric flowers!

Today I had to visit the doctor for that dreaded time of the year.


TMI sorry.

Of course a resident went past me when I was googling "Pap smear cartoon" LOL! Thankfully Strict search was on!!!! HAHA!

The rest of the day was spent being lazy! I did end up NOT following my diet today, which is terrible but at least I am admitting it! I had delivery...

3 slices of potato topper pizza and some topperstix. I just need to go grocery shopping and I DONT WANNA!

I also have ordered some pictures to put in my christmas cards tomorrow, they MUST GO OUT TOMORROW, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE NO TIME AND MY LIFE IS CRAZY! Plus I need to ship out gifts tomorrow, this just has to happen.

I also have my english final tomorrow. Awesome.

Well I think this is long enough for now, sorry for slacking, and I apoloize to myself for slipping up BUT tomorrow is a new day!

Deck the halls..

Fa la la la la la fahrvegnugen!

Can you say BAHUMBUG?

That is my husband at the moment. I love him OH SO MUCH, BUT HOT DAMN HE PISSED ME OFF YESTERDAY!

I was going to write about it last night but I just was so upset I felt like I shouldn't blow off steam yet. We were arguing about the Christmas tree. Yes, what is supposed to be a joyous event turned out to be ugly.

I'm not going to get into it but I can say that the tree is up and Marc bought lights for it today, so maybe I can light it tonight!








My Ciocia Linda and I were trying to convice Nana to use the no rinse shampoo. That stuff works good it's just weird not washing your hair out and it's a little like you left a bit of conditioner in your hair...here is me trying to show you the outcome..The lighting was terrible, and my camera really sucks too.


and here is Marc craving attention (he thinks its weird that I take pictures of myself lol).



In other news, I just finished writing two essays for my (hopefully) final test in History class! IF I pass this and get an A than I wont have to take the final exam YES YES PLEASE!
I'll let you know how it turns out!

exhaustion has taken over

My creativity is waining tonight. I'm way overtired. I'm one of those people that can't function normally (I can function but not at my best) without about 9 hours of sleep a night and last night I had 5 hours. Usually this isn't a big deal, I suck it up, go to school, and come home to crash for a couple hours before my second class. Today though, this couldn't happen because the electricians were still at the house finishing up the project from yesterday.

One good thing was we got Nana to have breakfast and lunch with us today! For breakfast we had bacon and eggs with Polish bread and for lunch Marc made Mock Chicken, baked potatoes, and some leftover broccoli from Thanksgiving! What a great guy! I was proud of him for cooking on his day off. He hates to do it, but I need the help especially on a school day so I'm happy that he was very willing to try!

I was sooooooo full after lunch so I haven't eaten since then (it's 9pm now) I have a feeling it has to do with feeling so tired as well. I'm planning to just have some yogurt with uncooked oatmeal on top after work (be checking on Sparkpeople ray ray!)

So my brain doesn't want to think about much else that happened today so I'm going to cut this one on the short side and show off some pictures.

The book I'm reading, so far so good..it's a biggie!


see!


the Christmas Tree at work, they just finished putting it up today. Very pretty!

It's Hannukah! Quite a few of the residents are Jewish.



More of the lobby

and more of the lobby :)


and my favorite part of the lobby! I love the juggling pins on the bottom mid-right.

Now you know what I look at everyday! I'm so ready for my weekend to start, I can't think of a weekend that I've actually needed to recharge the batteries more than this one.

Plans for this weekend:
Put up the Christmas Tree
Change Pantry for shelves (still to be shown)
sllleeeepppp
Give nana a perm
Show the weekend guy how to use the fire alarm at work
Out to dinner on Saturday! I should go look at restaurants.com and see what I can save on!
finalize Christmas/upcoming birthday presents/plans
Go to Goodwill to exchange items
Go to Walmart to exchange items
Read more of my book
Complete two essays for History (could bleed into Monday)
Complete oral exam preparations for History (could bleed into Monday)

That's IT! phew! What are your plans for the weekend?