Let's Chat... {The Walking Dead, Thanksgiving & Christmas}

 Warning, potential long post ahead!

I don't have an insane amount to talk about or anything and it's nothing like super serious. I just want to ramble for a little while to whomever may or may not be reading this. It sometimes helps to let my emotions bleed into my blog every once in a while.

This is kind of random and something I haven't talked about on my blog in literally years, but I'd like to talk about The Walking Dead for a minute. As I'm sure almost everyone knows, TWD series finale was Sunday and it's just like really sad and depressing to me for some reason. I've been a HUGE Walking Dead fan for year. I remember seeing the preview for it back in 2010 and couldn't wait to watch it. I wrote the name and date down on a piece of paper and taped it to the back of the door. LaVaughn and I fell in love from day one and watched it religiously every single Sunday.

Until they killed Carl...

If you read the comics and love them as much or more than the TV show, then you had to have been pissed at the decision to kill him off - I know I was. Then Rick being written off the show half way through season 9 with the final nail in the coffin. After Carl died it didn't feel like the same show. When Rick left it wasn't the same show. Don't get me wrong, it's still a good zombie show, but it wasn't The Walking Dead anymore. LaVaughn and I stopped watched for over a year or maybe longer, then we finally decided to give it a go.

We watched all of season 9 and up to episode fifteen on season 10 and that was it.

I read so much stuff Sunday about the finale and saw peoples posts about how they've watched it since day one, yadda yadda yadda. Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people did, but I feel like they're probably the Daryl stans that are only in it for him. Someone who wasn't even in the comics to start, I might add. Idk, I think a lot of it has to do with making me feel nostalgic or something. It makes me think of old times and just depresses me. I miss the fall of 2010 so much, it was just an amazing time and the fact that it was 12 years ago sucks. It was just really depressing to me, which I know is probably so silly, but that how it makes me feel. I'll never forgot the first few seasons of TWD and how amazing they were and how much LaVaughn and I enjoyed watching them.

Now on to Thanksgiving... like how is it already almost the end of November?? I had to do a ridiculous amount of grocery shopping yesterday for all the stuff that LaVaughn and I are making. We're mainly making deserts this year, but I'm also making homemade stuffing and cranberry sauce, LaVaughn is doing the potatoes. Plus we're making this one type of dip that my aunt and uncle like, plus cheese ball dip. We also go some of the fancy frozen yeast rolls instead of making them homemade. My aunt and uncle are doing the turkey, ham and chicken and dumplings. She's also doing the stuffing that they like with all the nasty stuff in it.

 All of the prep and desert making is happening tomorrow... should be interesting.

Now on to Christmas. I'm always super festive around the holidays and I absolutely love Christmas shopping. Idk what's going on this year, but there's just something off. I feel like I'm the only person in my immediate family that is excited about it. LaVaughn and I always Christmas shop together for my aunt and uncle, my mom, Jeff and Jake. We've only gone one time and that was two weeks ago and we just got like 4 things. I know people Christmas shop by themselves all the time, but it's not something I'm used to, so it's kind of depressing to me. I feel like no one cares and it's getting to the point where I don't even care. 

I hate it.

I don't know why, but it's super easy for me to get sad and depressed anymore. I'm a genuinely happy person, but damn... this is just getting to me. Even writing all this out is making me a little sad and depressed at the thought. I think I'm just going to stop mentioning anything to LaVaughn and let her approach me when she wants to go someplace. I'm just gonna start shopping online I guess, cause I'm too bummed out anymore.

First world problems, I know.

Anyways, I'm done crying and complaining about stupid stuff that I shouldn't be complaining about. Here are some pics that I've taken with my new camera over the last week or so. It's nothing special and they kinda suck because I'm still getting used to this camera.

Here are some pictures from my D750 with my 105mm 2.8 lens:

Here are some pictures from my D750 with my Tokina 11-20mm 2.8 lens:

Giant Christmas Village

Weekly iPhone Roundup {11.12 - 11.18}

 Here we are again with another Friday iPhone recap. I used to didn't take that many pictures on my phone, but for some reason I've been taking a lot more the past month or two. Maybe it's because I subconsciously knew that I would do a weekly photo recap, who knows. Not really, of course, but it's just something that I'm into right now. This is what I used to do before 2018 when I posted on Instagram religiously. I still don't post there, Idk why, but something inside me won't allow it.

This has been a fairly exciting week. LaVaughn got a tattoo on her feet Tuesday, then my camera arrived Wednesday. I cleaned the little fish tank which was WAY overdue, then we set up 90% of the Christmas Village Friday. There are lots of random pictures in-between as well, hope you enjoy!

This was Walmart Saturday - SO packed! It was worse than the picture.

My moms flocked Christmas tree she just ordered.

Found these cute little inflatable ornaments at Dollar Tree - ended up getting two of the colored ones for the side of the house.

Found a decent selection of movies at Dollar Tree too. Half of these are for my aunt and uncle.

Guess there was another lettuce recall this past Monday.

Yes, I made this mess at Walmart. And yes, I did notify someone and apologize.

More snow this past Monday night!

Outside of Artisan Ink in Farmington.

Sketchy ass building, for real.

This is the hallway to the ladies bathroom.

This is the mens bathroom.

The transfer of LaVaughn's tattoo.

This is the tattoo artist, Colin.

It was literally just us three in there. The tattoo place was very clean.

It had an industrial feel to it.

Last one for good measure. I guess I forgot to add the picture of the finished product to this post. If I don't forget, I'll add it to next weeks.

Got some buy three get one free fish at Petco. These are Platys and one ended up dying.

My star light.

I didn't know which picture I liked more, so I added both.

The freshly cleaned fish tank. It was still a smidge cloudy here.

Projector lights from Dollar Tree that my mom got us.

The Christmas Village with just the houses.

The tank today, much clearer.

Some fancy Volpi snacks that our neighbors gave us. This box and then another whole case.

And some of these Boar's Head mozzarella and prosciutto things as well.

More of the Christmas village after we added trees and people.

It still needs the street lights, though.

And lastly, the Christmas village with the lights on.

It's a bittersweet symphony...

Today was such a sad day. Today we said goodbye to two of our babies, Haldey and Kyro. It's days like this that make me want stop breeding entirely. I know that sounds selfish, but it seems like letting joeys go is getting harder and harder. When I went to take Hadley and Kyro out of the pouch where they were snuggled up with their parents, I lost it. I started crying like a little girl and then finished by apologizing for taking Sadie and Pip's babies away from them. Ugh.

Then, since my nose was so stuffed up, I started mildly choking and couldn't breath.

By the time we made it to Farmington, I told LaVaughn I had to stop and get a coffee for my throat. It was so dry and scratchy, I couldn't hardly swallow! McDonald's was the closest, so we decided to pull in there. Big mistake, by the way. It ended up taking over 5 minutes just to get a coffee. I honestly have no idea why they call their coffee "premium", because it sucks.

Anyways, we left Farmington around 3:00 and ended up making it to Festus by 3:30. And to think, we were worried that we would be late! It was just the opposite, actually. When I text Kelsey to tell her we were there, she told me they were running behind and would be there around 4:30! Go figure.

We were parked in front of a Joann fabric store -- which was where we planned on meeting her -- which ended up being right next door to a Petsmart! Good call on our end! After we fed everyone a few treats, we decided to head inside to blow the remaining 45 minutes.

I thought Petsway was expensive, but this place takes the cake! Everything they had was 20% higher than it should have been. Minus a couple things, like canned cat food, which we bought. We also bought Milla one of those Crazy Critters toys, the fox one (what would the fox say?). She had one a couple years ago that we picked up the last time we went to Arkansas, but something happened to it. Anyway, that thing and 4 cans of cat food ended up being $13! See what I'm saying?

Anyways, Kelsey showed up not long after that, then we handed the babies over to her. It was bittersweet, but the excitement she expressed when she laid eyes on them and held them for the first time made me smile and not think about the fact that I was actually handing over two of my babies to a complete stranger. Well, I can't really call her a stranger, considering I've been talking to her for 11 months.

She and her dad were both super nice and stayed and talked for a while. It was still sad, but I have a good feeling about her and think she's going to be a great glider mama.

After we said our goodbyes, we headed over to Joann's. Probably not a good idea, considering we're both a tad obsessed with fleece, lol. We ended up getting 8 yards of fabric before we left. We got 6 yards of fleece and 2 yards of flannel. Yup, we're going to give flannel a try. SUPER nervous bout that, but if it turns out the way we want it to, it's going to look awesome!

My conclusion about Joann's... it's awesome!! It's so sad, but I can't wait to go back, lol. Hopefully their blizzard fleece will be on sale the next time we make our way to Festus.

After we nabbed some food from Captain D's, we headed home. All in all, it was a pretty good day. Sad, but good. Kelsey has already emailed us, so I think it's safe to say she'll stay in touch. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Hadley and Kyro munching on some yoggies:

Are they not the cutest?

Petsmart!!

This cat reminds me so much of Zoe! I wanted to take it home. 

This little lady was a tad on the upset side.

But man was she pretty!

So many fish!

Milla's new Crazy Critters fox toy.

$20 antlers... no thanks.

It's a bird... no, it's a plane. Actually, it's a helicopter.

Our loot from Joann's. I'll post more detailed pictures later. ;)