CD 7

   It's just another lovely day in paradise. I went to Kohl's after work to try and find some outfits to wear on my cruise coming up. Only 14 more days! <3 I can't believe it's getting so close. So, I found a 4 dresses, a skirt, some shirts, some leggings, a pair of shoes and spent under 100.00 for everything. Pretty awesome. I love clearance deals. Plus the 15.00 kohl's cash and 15% off and 20% off coupons helped a lot too. I even bought some jeans for Mr. C that he has been eying every time I drag him in there. Those were 60.00 but that will count under his clothes expenses, not mine. =P

   So today I did some really awesome things. I ordered my mother in law some wine and chocolate covered strawberries for her bon voyage gift when she gets to her stateroom on the cruise. I also upgraded my parents room to a mini suite so they will be happy about that. It didn't cost me any extra for my parents but it got their balcony room upgraded to a mini suite and they got to keep their on board credit for the same price. I just felt like calling and checking on it since I saw the price drop. Saves them the trouble and they have not been in a suite before. So my good deeds for the day are done. I'm hoping by doing these little things that I can slowly build myself back up to my pre-holiday excitement that disappeared.

      I'm just trying to slowly ease myself into the holiday spirit this year. I was so excited for Christmas last week and now, I'm not really feeling the whole Christmas spirit thing.

   I think the way to sum up everything is that I am feeling like my attempts at "faking it until you make it" with the holiday cheer isn't going as I had planned. I want to be happy but how do I get myself to that point? I guess I will be throwing on some Christmas tunes, baking, crafting and making junk until I feel the holiday spirit, I guess.  Ultimately, I am pushing this issue so hard because I just don't want it to be like the last 3 years where I was so busy with work and school that I enjoyed 2 days of the Christmas Season before it was over. It's hard to get into the spirit of Christmas and decorating and everything when you have to work all of the major holidays and miss all the festivities. The Christmas parties, my birthday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years eve, New years day. It just gets old. =( I work all of them at the moment (except my birthday because I will be on the cruise) so I am trying to fit Christmas and that special Christmas feeling that people get,  in where ever I can.

On that note, I am going to go pour a glass of wine (to go with my whine), start making dinner, light my hookah and then play some Black Ops. Maybe fraggin' some noobs will help get me out of this funk. If not, it will be non stop studying for my finals, crafting and then hopefully my FW will be here sooner rather than later! lol.