I hope i'm not getting sick but it truly feels like a cold is coming on. I've been mocosa these past couple of days and today i've had several sneezing fits. Joseph keeps trying to tell me that I have allergies but I don't believe him. I've NEVER had allergies. I really do think I have a cold. Period.

This week has been SUPER crazy. So much homework and laundry it's insane. Plus, get ready for this, I WORKED OUT on Tuesday. I am so proud of myself. This is a step in me trying to shed some weight. On Tuesday's and Thursday's a few of my co-workers are getting together in the gymnasium after work to sweat to this hip hop dvd. MAN was it hard. I usually give up in the first 5 minutes of any of my work out DVDs but since I was there I pushed through it with the rest of them. I felt so accomplished at finishing it!

Tomorrow is the dreaded Thanksgiving Turkey dinner at work. It's the most chaotic and stressful day of the year for me. Not looking forward to it at all. I will survive.. I hope!

I want to help out a friend of mine who is adopting a child from Ethiopia. Being that I myself might look toward adoption as an option if in my future I can not have children I feel for her and hope that she gets the child she's always wanted.

If you can please help my friend Rachel out! I just bought the love t-shirt :) Rachel and I used to be roommates when we both worked for Disneyworld. She's an awesome woman who has played some face characters in the parks such as Mary Poppins.


Rachel, Amanda, Lori

We are selling these awesome shirts to raise money for the purchase of much needed items at our future baby's orphanage, Hannah's Hope. Proceeds will help purchase things like formula, medicine and diapers, which we will hand deliver when we travel to Ethiopia. Check them out online at

www.adoptionbug.com/bringhomebabyscarpelli

I'm up and awake right now at 2:30 in the morning because I took one really long nap during the day. First, I slept in and got up about 10:30am and then later on I took a nap from about two in the afternoon till right before Joseph walked in the door after work after 6pm!! I just find that the weekends are days to catch up on my sleep. I could sleep all day if I wanted or could. In fact, I take naps usually ever day after work for one to two hours. What can I say, I love my sleeps.

Guess what arrived in the mail yesterday? My awesome blonde wig (the Britney wig) that I purchased through eBay. Yeah, I was so sad it didn't arrive in time for Halloween and had to purchase this cheap, ugly wig at Walgreens when we were on our trip. This wig is SO much nicer and would have looked so much better with my costume but what can you do?

What did I do? I wore the wig all day Friday because durn it I paid for it and i'm gonna get use out of it! Here's my over the shoulder look.



AH-Mazing!


Tomorrow I have, let's see, homework AND cleaning to do. Seems this is what I have to do every day. *LE SIGH* Can it be winter break already??

Reflecting on our year of marriage I have to say how incredibly lucky I feel. I couldn't have asked for a more caring, understanding, affectionate, doting, loving husband. Our first year of marriage has been amazing and I can't wait for the years to come.

Our anniversary vacation consisted of food, food, friends and family. Which is why we've dubbed this the vacation of food because our favorite thing to say was "Where are we eating next?" We ate some New Mexican cuisine from La Hacienda in Old Town, at Tucanos a Brazilian steakhouse, Mongolian stir fry at Genghis Grill, wood oven pizza from IL Vicino, and breakfast at Le Peep.





Besides the food we did a bit of shopping and hit a couple comic book shops. Lobo Anime & Comics and Astro Zombie are the one's we managed to see though my step brother, who is also a comic book kind of guy, informed us of a few other's we'll have to stop by when we return.



Halloween was fun. We attended two parties. One was more laid back than the other but we had fun at both nonetheless. It was really good seeing some old friends.







After coming back home we sampled a bit of our wedding cake that we kept in my mom's freezer. It smelled like freezer burn really badly and tasted a bit stale. We only managed two small bites a piece before giving the rest to my mom as she's a cake crazy person.

We're back from our anniversary vacation and I just wanted to post a few wedding photos to remember the day.







Plus, here's my wedding song. The wedding party and I walked down the isle to Only Hope by Mandy Moore from the movie A Walk to Remember. I listened to it today and it made me cry. Funny because I was for SURE I would be bawling walking down the isle but I didn't cry once during the ceremony.

HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY BABE!

We had a nice dinner at my mom's house tonight. We haven't gotten together to eat in a while so my mom invited us over and she cooked a yummy meal of brisket, mashed potatoes, and this chipotle corn soup. It was my mom and I, Joseph and my stepdad, and my cousin Adam was there. After eating the girls cleaned up and the boys sat and drank beer at the table and talked. I always find it real nice when Joseph gets to bond with my male family members. He's always busy with work so he misses out on a lot of family functions.

My mom and I disappeared into the bedroom for a while and when we came out they were still talking but I noticed that Joseph wasn't contributing much. I pulled him aside and asked if he was okay and if he was read to leave. He said that he was okay, that they were talking but that the subject was growing beards and since he can't grow one he had no input! LOL

This week is super busy for me. I know Joseph wants it to go by fast because he's on his vacation but I want it to go by quickly. Tomorrow I have class in the evening plus a section due in another class. Wednesday I have a classroom evaluation for an hour and Thursday is my political science test plus tutoring at the University. Then, of course, Friday we leave. Busy, Busy, Busy!

I made a TTC blog separate of this one in case anyone doesn't want to read about that type of stuff here. Add Working on a Little Roo for TTC stuff!!