Christmas is coming!

Like any Christmas-happy person, I made my husband take down the heavy Christmas decor box and put up the tree the night after Thanksgiving. I like Christmas a lot. It makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. Now here's my main problem currently. I need a tree topper and some more ornaments. I've got a silver and red thing going with the tree with little hints of green. Any suggestions on where to get a non-tacky looking tree topper? I tried to find one last year with no luck. I just tied a ribbon around the top but it kinda looked funny on my big tree, like it had this fro sticking up...

I've got lots of thoughts about this coming month... some Christmas related, some not so much, but I want to get back on the blogging bandwagon. I think my difficulty has been that before with my crappy job I needed a happy positive writing outlet, but now I have a nice happy job that so far has been fulfilling so I haven't felt the need to do extra ya know? So we'll see how this lasts, but I really like Christmas and it feels bigger when you're sharing it with blogger space. YAY for Christmas!

The MTA Subway Museum

So this was a few weeks ago, but I wanted to show y'all how cool the subway museum is. It's in Brooklyn and very easy to get to, I promise! We went there when my parents were in town and while it was funny because we were the only people without a little kid, it's really cool.

The best part is this. The museum is in an old subway station that's been converted. So on the track level they've filled it with some old school subway cars. So neat!
I loved the ads that were in some of the older ones... it says " 84 out of 100 women prefer men who wear hats" haha so awesome!
Then there were all of the old subway maps which Dan was obsessed with...
I enjoyed hanging out in one of the older ones with the wicker seats. Very comfy.
If you come and visit NYC and have some extra time I would definitely recommend going here! And if you live here, you definitely have to go.

Poor puppy

Poor Fitz-o got his man parts snipped today. Now he must wear the cone of shame. I have never seen a more pathetic creature. I cam home and he waggled over to me crying and when I sat on the ground he promptly climbed up without any intention of leaving. Good thing he's small!

Thankful

Dan says sometimes I'm delusional, meaning I forget things easily. But here are some things I do remember and I'm thankful for.

-Dan the man, for loving me always no matter what. Even when I wouldn't really love me if I were him.
-A new job that I'm loving. Dan doesn't know what to do with a wife not complaining about work every night!
-An energetic puppy who's added a little spice to our lives. (and is totally adorbs!)
-Amazing NYC friends. What would we do without you guys?!
-Christmas time in NYC. I think I like this time even better than spring! (at least for right now : )
-Family--they're solid, I like them.
-Feeling happy.

Life is pretty good and I'm grateful : )

The Padres visit

This week two of my favorite people came to visit El Dan Thomson and I this week. It was pretty awesome. We went and did something every single night and I am pretty stinkin ready to go back to my normal routine : ) But it was a lot of fun while they were here. Here's what we did:

Saturday night:
parents arrive
eat some yummy new york pizza

Sunday:
Go to Church and meet all my friends
Bake the most amazing french bread with the help of my new RED! : ) kitchenaid mixerEat dinner with my parents and Dan's mom and get things situated for the Christmas Cruise!!

Monday:
Dan and I work--meet up for dinner at S'macks and then go to Strand bookstore to wander around

Tuesday:
Work, then I met up with the parents for dinner at Max Brenner's (The Bald Man's Chocolate Place) and then go see Jersey Boys. AMAZING musical!!! I highly recommend it, I'm still humming/singing Four Seasons songs.

Wednesday:
Work, meet up for dinner at O'Grady's and then go and see the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular. So fantastic! I can't wait to someday take my girls to see that. It is awesome.

Thursday:
No work! Finally! Run central park loop in the morning, eat bagels... and more stuff but none of us can remember exactly what we did... too much!

Friday:
No work. Go eat lunch at A Salt and Battery (yum-o fish and chips--my dad says they're legit, he lived in Scotland for 2 years so he's familiar). Then we went to the subway museum in Brooklyn which was really cool, also highly recommended. We stopped by canal street and got cute scarves of course. For dinner we went to Serendipity and got the Frozen hot chocolate among other things.

Saturday:
Daddio left for Cali. Mom and I went and saw The Addams Family. Dinner with friends at Patsy's Italian and then the Opera to see our friend Nicholas perform.

Sunday:
Dan and I give talks, dinner and packing : ( sad times

More pictures of the Subway Museum to come!

Oh the smell of clovers

Our pup thoroughly enjoys rubbing himself all over the ground. I couldn't figure out what it was until a friend said they like the smell of clovers. I think fitz does this every single time we take him to the park (which is every day, multiple times a day). Good thing he's easy to clean!

Weekend project

In an attempt to get our place completely done (I know we moved in 6months ago) we did a little painting a la Jackson Pollock this weekend.

It was fun to throw some paint around and let off a little creativity steam. Here they are drying...


Here they are on the wall. We decided we'll need to something more to make them pop better on the white wall...


Here they are over the tv (don't mind fitz's "toy" box to the right. He's got a lot of stuff that needs corralling sometimes!)


It was fun to do with my Danny boy and much easier than we thought it would be. I highly recommend it!