We have some weiners!

And/or winners. Basically the same thing.

So! If you didn't know about it, I did a 12/12/12 giveaway...and the results are in!
 
Are you excited?

To be honest, I was fairly surprised with the results.  I won't say anymore but I'll let you see for yourself and be surprised! Thanks to everyone for your participation and entries, it was really fun :)!

So I put all this disaster together....

There are some high tech draw's going on right there!

I promise to you, I didn't rig anything. (Believe me if you wish).

First, we had the Benefit mini scent sampler...

Ruth*! You were bound to win, you're the only one that wanted it apparently!

Second, the Bath & Body work set of Trudy's faves ;) (Including candle and soap)...

There were QUITE a few entries here...but Nani pulled through! Good thing you entered near the end! :)

Third, Paul Mitchell Shampoo and Conditioner had a few entries...

But Ruth came through, again!

Fourth, Sephora Philosophy Sparkle and Joy set with body washes and lipgloss...

Ruth again?? What kind of crazy luck do you have?!

Fifth, Love Spell Lotion by Victoria's Secret....

A new contender pulls in...Janette*! (I call her Ned...)

Sixth, Corioliss Brilliant Gloss Mist...

Ned again?? Like I said, I shook all the little piles very well! It was all luck and chance!

And the last 2 things...something almost everyone wanted...the sweet sweet chocolate.

First we have Ferrero Rocher...

And here we have Nani again! (Or should I say Joe...) ;)

And of course the Toffifee...

Ned apparently has some sweet luck as well! 

So first off I want to say Congratulations to the 3 winners! And I want to thank everyone for your comments and participation...I had fun! Like I said, I was quite surprised with the results. Only 3 people managed to snatch everything up! I guess it's just the luck of the draw!
I'm going to be honest here though, I'm slightly relieved I don't have to send anything out! (Especially to Scotland...no offense Lambie) ;). 

Again thanks to everyone! Happy Holiday's & Merry Christmas!
I'm happy to be sharing some of my things with some of you!

Nani, I'll be seeing you tomorrow! :)
Ruth, I'll send your goodies with my parents as they'll be seeing you guys later on Christmas Day. :D
Ned, I'll see you Christmas Eve. ;) 

Fare well for meow :)!

** Ruth and Janette and nieces of mine, just for those who were curious**

I can't always be awesome...

One more work day until the holidays! (For me anyways...if not for you, I'm sorry). 

So...last night was a failure. I was making something delicious but it got ruined and burnt up...probably because my oven runs a bit too hot so I should have turned it down a bit. Anyways, just 5 cups of pecans/1 cup of almonds ruined...not a big deal. Made me sad. 
But I did successfully (I think anyways?) make a cookie dough last night for baking tonight. I'll share when completed. 
Since I wasn't able to win in doing all the baking I wanted last night, I figured I had to get something else done. SO! The house got all tidied/vacuumed and bathroom cleaned. At least that's all done. I also finished Scott's card and all his wrapping. So I still got a decent amount done and again passed out from exhaustion around 10:30. It's been long days guys and I think George is starting to feel neglected because he's not getting as much attention as he usually does.
Tonight will be busy yet again... so much baking. *.*

How has your week leading up to Christmas been? What things do you still need to do?

I'll have to finish up my baking, get all packed up, finish with the rest of my presents (will take about an hour or less), and shower George ;) He has to be looking his best (fluffiest) for the holidays (me). 

December 20th! And what's my favorite Christmas meal?
Well, my family has never really done a big meal on Christmas day (that I can think of...someone can correct me if I'm wrong). What I remember from Christmas morning, is having my mom's homemade hot chocolate and toast! But Christmas Eve we generally have a little feast of sorts...lately Chinese food!
Though if I had a choice in the matter....I love roast beef, turkey dinner...all those marvelous things :D

Do you have a feast on Christmas Day or Eve (or both)? What do you have Christmas morning?
AND what's your favorite Christmas meal (if you have one)?

12 Days of Christmas!
On the 8th day of Christmas a Trudy gave to you, 8 mint hot cocoas, 7(+) songs for singing, 6 lengthy foot rubs, 5 boooxxxesss of Godiiiivvaaaaa, 4 festive movies, 3 pomegranates, 2 pairs of sweatpants and a fuzzy kitten named Georgey!

Trudy out.

Byeas for meow :)!

PS. Today is the last day to enter the giveaway. If there's anything else you want to enter for, do it now!
I'll be announcing winners at some point tomorrow ;) SO GO ENTER!

Last night, on the drive home, I heard a Christmas song I hadn't heard since last Christmas. I thought to myself, oh ya! I kind of like this song! I wonder who it's by. Again, I had no idea...so enjoy T Swift everyone! 
I should've known by the twangy guitars... -.- (I'm starting to dislike it now...)


 

Cocoa and Bowie, and it's not even my Birthday!

The cookie battle has continued. Last night it took up my whole evening...which I generally prefer to fill with sweet nothingness. So I got home at about 6 (stupid traffic...) and was going strong until 9:30 (at which point I was exhausted and passed out). This morning, I jerked up in bed after something had seemingly fallen on me (in my dream). George looked at me like I was a mad woman and my 5 o'clock alarm went off about a minute later...at least I was wide awake already? That didn't change the fact that I desperately wanted to crawl back under the covers and sleep for another couple hours.

So Little Red (mixer) was brought out again last night. This time I was making Mexican Wedding Cookies (I always knew them as Almond Crescents when my sister made them)...which are basically shortbread cookies with pecans (or almonds or whatever) that are dipped in icing sugar when at a temperature you can handle (or a little too hot really...the hotter they are, the better the icing sugar melts). Those turned out quite successfully (if I do say so myself), but no pictures were taken sorry...too busy, too sticky of hands!
For a recipe, I don't have a go to one yet. I just Googled Mexican Wedding Cookies and picked which ones were either rated the best or seemed the most suitable to me.

Afterward, I wanted to make a few plain shortbread cookies (only about a dozen) for those who can't eat nuts. So those were easy enough. I tasted the dough, which was quite delish, but I actually didn't have a baked cookie. By the time they were done (and I had munched on a couple of the other cookies), I was in no mood for anymore. (Again I just pulled any recipe off of Google).

Then I was wanting to make a little snack type recipe and I was curious about something Sally (from Sally's Baking Addiction) seems to rave about loving ALL THE TIME! Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites. So, fairly easy recipe...unfortunately, for me, it was a little difficult. I'm not sure if I just had too much peanut butter in there or if it was just way too hot in my place (which it was...) but the peanut butter mixture was pretty sticky for me, even though I kept adding icing sugar. Eventually, I just sucked it up and made it work because I didn't want to go overboard with the icing sugar. I do love peanut butter, but by the time I had finished these little guys, I was sick of liking the stuff off my fingers so I couldn't bring myself to eat one. But I'm sure they're really good! I'll let you know how they are once I've actually tried one...but for now, they're in my freezer. But thanks for the recipe Sally! Next time, I won't make something at the same time (so the oven isn't acting as a second furnace for the place) or I'll open all the windows :D
Again, no pictures...hands too sticky, Trudy too tired. Sally's look a little nicer anyways ;)

So that was my evening! This morning, after jerking awake, I did my usually morning things and jumped into my workout. Today I did an Insanity workout..."Max Interval Sports Training", if you were wondering. It's a toughy...good workout!

Do you remember last year, my love of Tim Horton's Candy Cane White Hot Chocolate? Well peeps, today was my first of the season and it was delish ;)

Though delicious, this thing seemed so dang sweet! (And it was too big, but someone got it for me and I was excited...). I don't know if it's just because I've been having a few too many sweets lately...but it was a bit of an overload. (But still yummy, love you WHCCC~!)

Never fear! I've been keeping up with my advent calender! Yesterday being the 18th, I got my first Santa! I will share though, that I have not eaten him yet... too much sugar yesterday!! Though tonight probably won't be better D:

So today is the 19th! What's my favorite stocking stuffer??
 I don't particularly know why, but I've always loved the stocking :D Usually just filled with a few little random things like chocolate, little piece of jewelry, lip balm (I always lost them) and my favorite thing was snuggled right up in the toe...... A CHRISTMAS ORANGE! I don't know WHY I love the Stocking Toe Christmas Orange so much...but I just do and that's the way it is ;)

What's YOUR favorite Stocking stuffer? What does Santa put in the toe of your stocking? ;)

12 Days of Christmas!
On the 7th day of Christmas a Trudy gave to you, 7(+) songs for singing, 6 lengthy foot rubs, 5 booooxxeess of Godiiiivvaaaaaa, 4 festive movies, 3 pomegrantes, 2 pairs of sweatpants, and a fuzzy kitten named Georgey!

{Obviously I mean Christmas songs...I love singing Christmas music! (Ok, all music...but ya) ;).}

On tonight's agenda...MORE baking and I'll probably try to get the vacuuming done as well. We'll see what the night brings ;)

Toodles for meow :)!

PS. Only 2 days left for the giveaway yo! Only one person has entered for a couple of the things...chances are high! For goodness sake, why haven't you entered yet?!

The past few days I have just been CRAVING this song. I kept hoping it would play on one of the dang radio stations and it probably has, just not while I was listening. Well I decided to take things into my own hands... one of my faves! (Love the Bowie...and everyone loves Bing).
**Skip to about 1:50 for the song** ;) You're welcome.



Dang Bowie, your voice is so smooth...

Cookies have begun!

Traffic last night was stupid. I'm excited for Christmas...but I'm ready for all this traffic to be gone. Regular Calgary traffic is bad enough without throwing all the last minute shoppers into the mix :P
But yes, traffic was stupid. There was no way I was going to pick up groceries or even go near the dang mall.
So I went home, showered (in case you were wondering) and then decided that something else productive was in order. The result? One batch of cookies has been made! Triple Chip Chocolate Chunk Cookies from the blog Picky Palate. So I broke out one of our wedding gifts (from my mom - thanks :D)...guys, it was awesome. Cookies shouldn't be made any other way...it's just so convenient for it to be mixing for me while I measure and add other things in. Sweet mixer.

So I basically followed the recipe as it says...I didn't add near as many chips (of the butterscotch, white and chocolate variety) because that just seemed insane to me. I like there to be at least a bit more cookie than chip. I also made the cookies a little smaller so I could get a few more out of it, and thus decreased the baking time to 7/8 minutes. I'm not sure if I left them in too long or what, but they were a bit too crunchy for my likings...I was wanting a nice soft cookie, but they'll do. I'm mainly giving them away anyways...so be ready for crunchy cookies! :D We'll see what ends up being made tonight!

So, as I was working out this morning, George was crawling around the tree and he just looked so cute! I had to stop and take a picture...

Cute~! :D 
After the picture, George proceed to fall (or fail at jumping) off the table - poor little guy x).

PS. Do you like our recently added decorations? Dino and, up in the left corner, blue Snoopy!

 Speaking of decorations :D ... they're related to Christmas, which brings us tooooooo....

December 18th (!), less than one week until Christmas yo! I'm to share with you, when I open gifts. 
My family has never been into the opening of just one (or any) gifts on Christmas Eve (which I know some people do). We've always opened gifts Christmas morning, which I like...though I wouldn't be opposed to opening it Christmas Eve or even the day after. Just so long as I get to open eventually ;) haha. 

When do you (like to) open gifts??

12 Days of Christmas...
On the 6th day of Christmas a Trudy gave to you, 6 lengthy foot rubs, 5 booooxxes of Godiiiivaaaa, 4 festive movies, 3 pomegranates, 2 pairs of sweatpants and a fuzzy kitten named Georgey! :)

I don't know about you, but I love foot rubs. They just feel so dang good! (Really, I like all massages though...so ya...)

Do you like having your feet rubbed? How about giving foot rubs?

Some people are too grossed out to give them... I really don't care. (Though I would prefer for them to be cleaned...some feet just smell, rather unpleasant). Either way, I'll likely be washing my hands...

AND that's all. Wish me luck on tonight's cookies! Mixer, here I come :)!

Buh bye for meow :)!

PS. The last day to enter for the giveaway will be Thursday night (midnight I guess). I'll be doing the draws on Friday morning... so just as long as all entries are in before then, you'll be good! So that's only a few more days if there's anything you want to enter for that you haven't yet, do it! There's still great chances!!

Today's song... is actually one I kind of forgot about. I recall singing it in Music Class in grade 5 or 6...
I'd like to see (or rather, HEAR) you try singing it WITHOUT attempting an Australian accent...

White Christmas?

Oh Monday. *sigh*
Well here we are, the last full week before Christmas!
You ready for it?
I'm not necessarily ready for Christmas...but I'm definitely ready for this week to be over already. (I think it's going to be a slow week...).

So how was the rest of your Sunday? Did you get up to anything exciting this weekend?

 I didn't get up to much excitement persay...but I did get to see Scott for a bit and I also got to babysit and see 3 awesome trees! (I gave links just in case you missed them) ;). 

So I went to wrap presents last night, and I realized we didn't have tape -.- or if we did, I had NO idea where it would be. So that stopped the wrapping of gifts for one night. I guess if I have time, I'll at least get to start the 4th 'Step Up' tonight (only finished 3 yesterday...ONLY 3 haha). Tonight, on the way home from work, I'll also have to stop and grab a couple forgotten groceries for my baking fest this week. It's difficult to know which items to do first...but I'll figure it out. I'll also need to do a bit of cleaning around the house so it's just a little more tidy I suppose.

December 17th and I'm supposed to post a picture of an old Christmas card. I'm sorry, I don't mean to disappoint...but I don't really save cards. I love cards to say something meaningful...but I usually save my memories in my mind, not in things. I'm sure I have some cards somewhere at my parents place...but not here!

Are you a card saver? Any that stand out to you?? 
Also...are you a person that writes a note in the card? Or do you just let the card do the talking for you and sign your name?

12 Days of Christmas!
On the 5th day of Christmas a Trudy gave to you, 5 boxes of Godiva(!), 4 festive movies, 3 pomegranates, 2 pairs of sweatpants, and a fuzzy kitten named Georgey. 

Have you had Godiva? They are SOOOOOO good! 

I'd say they're probably mostly known for their truffles, shakes, and chocolate covered strawberries. All I've really had are their truffles, but guys, they are just so scrumptious! Trust me...if you get the chance to try some - DO IT!

That's all I've got for ya today! Enjoy the rest of your Monday! The end will come...eventually...

Ta ta for meow :)!

PS. I know I'm harping, but it's free things people. FREE! So check out the dang giveaway already.

I woke up this morning to some snow...I wonder if it will be a white Christmas. I love white Christmases (when I'm indoors), but I don't particularly want to be driving through a snowstorm or anything! Here's hoping for the best!



*I was shocked and sorry to hear about what happened in Newton, Connecticut. Words can't really help nor undo what has been done...but may my thoughts and sympathies be with everyone affected.*

Rockin' Around 3 Christmas Tree's ;)

Well little George...it's a wee bit difficult to type with you laying across my wrists, but I guess I'll try to make this work because 1. you're cute and 2. you'll probably get bored and move in a few minutes ;).

(He only stayed for a few minutes...then I talked on the phone for a few hours with Lambie. Love you! Hope you managed to get SOME sleep). ;)

So how's your Sunday been?
I've been trying to get some presents sorted/wrapped while having a "Step Up" marathon. I've gotten though 2 and a half so far. Not necessarily just sitting and watching the whole time...but watching and getting up and doing other things as well. I've seen them all a few times ;)
Also trying to get all the recipes sorted to do some baking this week! There's a lot to do!

Have you done any baking? Any plans to do so??

December 17th and I'm to share who I believe the hardest person to buy for is. I actually find most adults quite difficult to buy for. Everyone basically buys what they need... and usually what they want as well. Also, nobody wants extra useless clutter around their house....usually ;). But I'd probably say the hardest people for me to buy for right now, in my life, would be Scott's family (my new family). I haven't known them like I've know my family and I haven't spent enough time with them yet.

Who's the hardest person for you to buy for? Or are you a pro? ;)
 
12 days of Christmas!
On the 4th day of Christmas a Trudy gave to you, 4 festive movies, 3 pomegranates, 2 pairs of sweatpants and a fuzzy kitten named Georgey!

I was able to kind of watch a couple movies while babysitting last night (which was fine thanks, by the way). We watched Frosty the Snowman, and then a little while later, Home Alone 2 came on... so I watched a bit of that before the parentals came home. The festive movies have sort of begun!
But I do need to share the 3 (yes 3!) trees they have set up at their house!

Mini Tree!

Medium Tree!

Big Tree! :D

I don't know about you, but I was pretty impressed :D They've got some trees! 

Anywho...enjoy the rest of your Sunday! Talk to you tomorra!

Peace out for meow :)!

PS. Don't forget...Giveaway! Still good chances for winning! I'll be picking the winners sometime this week :D If there's something you want to enter for ... do it!

Christmas song for today is another classic! It relates to the many pictures ;)

It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas

Though there's not a ton of snow. I wonder if that's going to change....

Well, Scotty came home and, sadly, he's already gone back to work. It's kind of strange having someone around after being alone for so long...but it was nice. Back to just me and a sleepy George for another 6 days. 
So yesterday Scotty was able to get his Christmas shopping done. When I got home, we went to the mall near our house quick and he was able to run into a friend who he hadn't seen in a few months, which was nice. Then we went to the grocery store where a lot of money was spent...BUT NOW I'm ready to do a bunch of Christmas baking :D It's going to be a busy week...
We then picked up some blizzards from DQ (because I had a BOGO{I just realized BOGO stands for buy one get one...}coupon) and then also picked up some sushi to take home :D We both got stuffed and vowed never to have sushi again (for at least 2-3 weeks that is :>).
Today was basically a lazy day for both of us but pretty quick here, I'll be heading out to babysit for my brother for a couple hours. (Boo to leaving the house and my nice cozy lounging clothes!)

How has your weekend been thus far? What're you getting up to? :)

SO! December 15th has arrived and I'm supposed to share the best gift I've ever given...and I actually have no answer to this. Just because I think I'm giving a pretty thoughtful/nice gift to someone, doesn't mean it seems as awesome to them. I do love giving people awesome gifts...but it's not as though I really keep a tab of the gifts I've given. Though that may be because my memory has been seeming to get worse and worse.
Or maybe I just haven't given that awesome of gifts ;)

What do you think? Do you remember the best gift you've given? Or do you have one??

I don't know. But I do know there's only 10 days until Christmas!

Are you all done your Christmas shopping? Was this your final weekend? Or were you done LONG ago?

12 days of Christmas time!
On the 3rd day of Christmas a Trudy gave to you, 3 pomegranates, 2 pairs of sweatpants and a fuzzy kitten named Georgey.

(Google images)

Have you had one? Do you like them?

I LOVE pomegranates. (I just realized I didn't pick any up at the grocery store D: ...). Sadly, they're only out around the fall/winter season. I remember when I was younger, I was always excited for when pomegranates would FINALLY pop up in the grocery store (not as though that's changed...I'm still excited for the first pomegranate, though usually...the first one of the year isn't that amazing).
As I looked up this picture on Google, I read that one pomegranate should feed 4 people. Uhm...really?? I eat these things by the wholesies. Filling? Yes. But it's all mine. 
I cut the pomegranate in half and then lay out a towel \blanket and sit and devour it.

Do you remove all the arils (seeds) before eating? Or do you just gnaw them out?

I realize most of you are likely a liiiittle more classy than me ;). 

Anyways...until tomorrow!

Byeas for meow :)!

PS. Again...GIVEAWAY people. FREE THINGS! haha. You don`t have to do much and the chances of getting something are still pretty high.

And the Christmas song today will be one of the classics...