Let's get re-acquainted...

It's been a while - here's the jist of what I've been doing:

I've been to two company Christmas parties this season, and I'm going to my own company's party tonight. I guess that makes three. I had an 80's party with friends which was both fun and humiliating. I don't wear pink. Ever. We went out in public dressed like this. We also played twister and some guy brought an Atari. Ashley and I were the 80's jazzercisers of the group as you can see. We're big fans of Jane Fonda.It was also an appetizer party, so everyone brought appetizers. I made mini-cupcakes and had a blast making them. The picture below was supposed to show how small the cupcakes were but it really just looks like a cupcake sitting next to a tomato. Oh well. You get it. They were small.
I decorated the Christmas tree at my office and it took four days. Three of those days were just spent putting up the lights. Over, under, over, under. That's how you string lights. Trust me, I know. The lights look pretty, but for whatever reason we put birds on our Christmas tree as decorations. They're birds with little nests. Every year we throw a bird away because they're creepy, and they only have one eye (some of them don't have any eyes), and they don't belong on the tree. It hasn't really felt like Christmas to me until just today. I really do miss putting my ornaments on my family Christmas tree at home in AZ and decorating the house with my family. I also really miss going to pick out a real Christmas tree at the Christmas tree lots in Scottsdale. My siblings and I would always play hide and seek behind the trees. The tree salesmen hated us. =) However, today I had the privilege of decorating my aunts house and am finally in the Christmas spirit.
Last year I helped decorate my aunts family room with ALL of her Christmas decorations. She has an insane amount of decorations, and her son, Carson, told her that if she doesn't throw some of them away he would put them all up in her living room. So we did. My favorite part about this whole thing is that she has a box of Christmas decorations labeled "crappy but not DI yet." Classic.Guess what? She still hasn't thrown any of them away, so of course we felt the need to put them all up again - only this year Jamey and I put the Christmas tree up upside down. For whatever reason my pictures are all coming out blurry on my camera (user error, I'm sure), so these pictures will just have to do. We decided the Christmas tree is a Christmas tree/dradle. We love Hanukkah, too. Don't you wish we lived by you so we could decorate your house?

The lights we put on the tree are the lights that you're supposed to just throw over a bush in your front yard. =)
This is one of those magnetized ice skating rinks. Someone added a GI Joe and a ninja to it. They had to wrap paper clips around their feet so that they would dance around with all of the other ice skaters. The GI Joe skates around pointing his gun at the other skaters. I love Christmas.
Let's see...what else have I been doing lately? Oh! I've started running a lot and have loved it. I never thought I would love running. I used to make fun of people that say "I love to run." I made the decision to start running one night after work, so I ran for a while and was up until 2AM. Yeah - running gives you energy. I now run earlier in the day, but I'm working towards a 5K...and then a 10K. We'll see how I feel after that. Way to go, Shelby, for running a half marathon! I saw twilight twice. You can make fun of me all you want but I actually liked the movie. I'll go as far as to say it was better than the book (please don't shoot me) because it wasn't as sappy.