31 Dec 08-Happy New Year to all!! I hope you have a wonderful evening and that 2009 is 100 times better than 2008. I've been a busy little bee the last couple of days. I got the thank you notes done (they're typed as usual because my arthritis is getting worse as time goes on) and mailed out with school pictures, I've FINALLY updated the website with new pictures (next comes an overhaul of the bios pages), cleaned out all of the 2008 bills and receipts, organized all of my 2008 photos and created new folders for 2009 (also backed them up on my external hard drive). Whew! Just typing all that makes me tired. Ha ha! I want to start the new year out right and just be able to relax. My first month is not going to be fun because we have two exercises with means 2 weeks of 12 + hour shifts. After that, I hope the rest of the year is smooth sailing. I have a whole plan in my head for how this year is going to play out but who knows if I can actually make that a reality. We shall see. Anyway, I hope everyone stays safe tonight and brings in the new year right!
29 Dec 08-Today was a great day. I am off for a week but I made myself one long to do list. I do that whenever I have time off so I don't feel like I wasted it. I figured I'd be nice and help Chris out and take down the decorations outside since he's working this week. He was pleasantly surprised to come home today and see the majority of it done already. I haven't told the story on here yet but I have some injuries and due to those injuries, I can't climb on the roof so I had to leave that for him but he was so happy that I got everything out of the yard. All he had to do when he got home was bring it all in the garage so he could put it all up in the attic once everything is down. It's nice to be able to do something nice for him once in a while. I had to laugh earlier because our friend Steve came over to collect his children and knocked on the garage door. I told him to come in and he saw me in the kitchen cooking dinner. He's a single guy and he said, "Man, first the decorations and now you're cooking dinner? I need to get me one of those." He's so funny! It's nice to have some free time to do all this stuff that I want to do. I even made it out to the dry cleaners and to get me some coffee. I wish every day was like today. :) I hope everyone had a good Monday!
28 Dec 08-We had a very nice Christmas and a very nice weekend. It was nice to just relax to be with my family this year. Thank you to everyone that sent cards and gifts. This was the first year that the kids seemed truly happy and grateful for what they received. Today was a nice quiet day at home with our friend Budda and his kids. He's leaving soon for Italy and it was the last weekend that his oldest boy will be here. The kids just love him to pieces. They all have such a great time together. Anyway, I just registered for another class yesterday so my stress starts over again but I really needed to get it going again before I lose that desire to finish. Other than that, there's not much to tell... or at least not yet. I will update things as I remember. I am off this week (Thank GOD!!) so I will be finally posting pictures. Hopefully I can figure out where I left off because I know it's been a while. I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!
24 Dec 08-Merry Christmas Eve to everyone! I know it's been forever and for that, I apologize. It's been over a month and I was shocked to see that! I wouldn't even know where to begin so I will try to write about some things and fill the rest in later as I remember or, for real, keep this going this time. I'm planning on 09 being a much better year for all of us and I know I'll want to write about it. Things have continued to be hectic around here as usual. Sometimes I wonder how I juggle it all. Sometimes I feel like Superwoman, other days I feel like I am barely keeping my head above water but I guess that's what keeps life interesting. I have a great job, a great family and great friends and that's all that truly matters so I'm doing something right. Sundays were normally my day to catch up on it all. However, since our "football crew" has grown on Sunday, I've been enjoying hanging out with all of them and enjoying my favorite sport! :) I am so excited to see my kids faces tomorrow when they see all their goodies that they can finally open. I was lucky enough to get all my shopping and wrapping done in one day so that when I put my tree up on Thanksgiving, I got all the presents under it the same day. It's been torture for the little ones! LOL I finally started feeling the nostalgia of it all this week. I promise, promise, promise, I will get pictures loaded before Sunday and also try to stay up with this the best that I can. January will be rough as we have 2 exercises which means 12 hour shifts for a week straight for each of them. I get most of my stuff like this done at work but unfortunately, my blogs are all blocked so I can't do it there. Hence the reason for the delay. But I'm back and lively and will try! Merry Christmas to everyone! May you all be as blessed as I am!
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