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My name is Steph, and I am a senior Marketing major with a Communication Studies minor. Since this is my last year at Butler, my main goal is to enjoy every moment that I have left, while doing as much as humanly possible. I am a marketing analyst at the Butler Business Accelerator, a Speakers Lab tutor, and a Butler blogger (obviously). I also am an Alpha Phi, the President of the Butler University Student Foundation, a member of Alpha Kappa Psi (a professional business fraternity), and a member of the Butler American Marketing Association. In the small amount of free time that I do have, I love crafting, watching large amounts of television, and enjoying my favorite comfort foods, like sweet tea.

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Posts Tagged “Christmas candy”

Why am I so outrageously lazy???

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Stephanie

I have been home and on break now for 5 days, and during those 5 days I have legitimately done nothing.  Well, I take that back.  I went Christmas shopping with my Mom one day, and I went to Indy for a day to help one of my best friends, Liz, with some of her wedding planning.  Other than that, I have visited friends and family, and I have sat on my couch.  Every night I have slept for at least 8 hours (some nights…I slept for 12 hours), and as soon as I woke up, I would move right to my couch where I spent each day vegging out.

I’m serious about this doing nothing thing…except when it comes to watching as many movies and TV shows as possible.  Today alone, I watched 4 movies and caught up on 2 TV shows.  I have also been doing my part as a member of my family to put a serious dent in our stash of Christmas candy from my Mom’s students at school.  You know, I have to help out as much as I can….since I can’t expect my parents to eat all of it by themselves of course.

Because of all of this chilling out and relaxing that I have been doing…I have somewhat lost track of time.  So now, I only have 2 days to do everything before Christmas.  Make gifts, make Christmas cookies, wrap gifts, and wash clothes…so that I have clean things to wear again of course.  Since I’m not very good at this entire being motivated enough to leave the couch thing…I’m just hoping that the fact that Christmas is coming sooner than I expected and I have a ton left to do will make me get up and move.

Our tree…looking pretty bare and presentless.

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Holiday Gift Giving 101

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Stephanie

Every year, right after school lets out and before Christmas Day, my family gets a large number of various gifts.  My Dad is a farmer, so we get gifts from businesses that he works with frequently, like fertilizer companies, or farm equipment companies, etc.  And my Mom is a teacher, so she gets gifts from the PTO, from her students, and from other teachers at school.  Sometimes this means we get a wide variety of gifts, but sometimes it means that we get a lot of the same gift….like we did this year.  For my family, this year is the year of the Candy.

*DISCLAIMER* – I love all of the gifts we got….because they are seriously delicious and have made my day every day over the past week….but I think I will have to work out for about 5 hours a day if I keep this up….or I might just replace every food group with Buddy the Elf’s four main food groups…

So back to the gifts we have gotten…..here is an explanation….and a photo.

All of the candy....

  • The box on the left at the top, with the bow on it, is from Libs.  They make the most heavenly turtles known to man….which is what is in this box.
  • Below that box is the large gold box, which is the box of candy that always comes first to our house….so every year it is the box that we sit around and wait for.  It is from Wolf’s Homemade Candies….and inside there is an amazing mix of every kind of chocolate you could ever want.
  • In the middle is a round tin, with homemade candies from one of the students in my Mom’s class.  They are delicious, and they have been my candy of choice for the past two days.
  • The white box on the right in the middle is from Charlie’s, which is a local candy shop.  What is amazing about this box is that it came with a bag of their famous caramel corn.  Basically, the goodness keeps on coming.
  • Below that box is a box of caramels from the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory….which aren’t my favorites, but they are still rather amazing.

So the moral of the story is….even though candies are amazing and delicious…I highly encourage you to give gifts to your loved ones that are not made entirely of sugar.  Just thinking about how much junk I have eaten in the past week and how much I am about to consume in the next few days make me feel like my teeth are rotting out right now.  But….somehow I love it.  Every last bit.  :)

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