The Holidays

Ah the holidays....nothing quite captures the magic and joy that comes around Christmas. Going out and getting gifts for your kids and your other family members. Sending out xmas cards to friends and family. baking cookies and cakes for everyone to get fat on. cooking the traditional turkey and ham feast. what a wonderful time to get a freakin sinus infection.ugh! two days before i am off for a week with the family and holiday cheer, i get sick and get a sinus infection. first it starts out as a cold and festers into a full blown infecting sinus infection.yuck!so the Thursday before xmas, i started out with a cold, not too thrilling but not too bad either.by the time Saturday rolled around, it was a full blown sinus infection.ewww!! could barely talk much less breathe.ugh!so come Sunday, as soon as i could move my body without hurting, i took myself to the walk in clinic for my dr's office.the dr tried to tell me that i just had a real bad cold but would go ahead and write me a script for an antibiotic in case it does not clear up by xmas. oh boy. i think i gave it a day before i tore into the zpack, and started the wonder drug. after about 2 days, i started feeling alot better, could have had something to do with the ungodly stuff i was coughing up.ick! it was totally gross. and god knows i did not have time to be sick, i had cleaning to do, i had cooking to do, i had children to harass, and i had groceries to buy because my uncle was coming to visit for xmas. i did not have time to sick at all!so i was froggy all holiday and i managed to make god knows how many dozens of cookies, of which was eaten more than once.i had two separate cooking times for cookies, because the first batch went fast.zip zong zip.....somebody had some serious sugar intake!then came the task of wrapping the gifts. while the stack of gifts this year was much smaller compared to previous years, it still took me until 4am to wrap them. i started around midnight on Christmas eve and it continued for 4 hours and that was with help! jeez, i really have to start wrapping them earlier in the month or heck even earlier in the year. i am one of those types that sees something on sale and thinks that would be great for xmas and just stockpiles everything, and gets whatever is still needed in December. so again as in year's past, it took forever to to wrap everything. and i did not even wrap the 3 stuffed animals that my daughter received for xmas. she still loves winnie the pooh at 11 yrs old.LOL, that cracks me up!!and i had my elf helper wrap the guitar hero that i got my son for xmas. he was just beside himself that he actually received that. that has kept him busy for days now. and my daughter with all her ds games, is huddled on the couch or wrapped up in her blankie in a corner in the room silently playing her games. ahhh the cool quiet buzzing of technology!

My Retired Cubie

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I had known Caron for quite a long time, or to me it felt very much that way. I had known her from the time i hit the floor from OJT, and we were on the same team off and on. So when i finally joined Srt in 1997, and pretty much stayed there except for a 2 yr stint in Authorizations, Caron was always there. She took great patience(because i know there was more than one occasion she wanted to strangle me)in teaching me how to crochet. i still feel nuts when i try to read a pattern. she retired in 2006, and I have missed her ever since. She bought a house and moved to Kansas. of all places, flat lands, toto flying in the wind and hard winters. i try to make sure i talk to her via yahoo at least once a week, she is always asking how the kids are doing and i show her how big hey are via my facebook page.I think she knows she is missed and loved dearly.anyways this pic is one of many that i took at her retirement party that us-her team-her work family gave her.

Baby Shower 2007

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Now who doesn't like a good party, and a messy one at that. I am good at decorating, do you agree?

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oooh that one makes me look like i am on illegal drugs. but don't worry...all my drugs come from my dr's note pad. I really did not have much to write about today, so i thought that i would breeze thru some pics and find something funny or interesting:))

My son

to think that i am the mother of a teenage boy sometimes scares me or at least it should. but thankfully i don't have the typical 15 year old son. he does have his moments when i just want to beat him senseless. lord knows i always had something extra to say when i was a teenager as well. but for the most part he is a great kid. little selfish sometimes, but we all go thru those stages. I am just glad that he does not like girls yet, of course there are those times when i mess with him and ask if he likes boys then. he just gives me this grin like "yeah right mom"! i get him and his sister laughing about that. i keep trying to prepare myself for when his "mental" puberty kicks in, because we will all be in trouble then. his physical maturity kicked in when he was about 13. ugh! what a time, a 13 yr old with a 15 yr old's body. he has finally surpassed me in height by about an inch. i knew it was going to happen, i just did not think it would happen before he turned 16. yes my baby will be 16 in august of next year. god.....he is gonna be tall. i love it when he just comes up to me and wants to give me a hug and a kiss on the cheek. makes me forget for a moment that he is a teenager and not just the little boy that i have watched grow up.

ahh home

well i finally made it home tonight. first i had to pick up the kids and dare i say that i took a deep breath and took them grocery shopping with me. it turned out ok, they went over to the video game aisle while i gathered some grocery items to stick in the fridge. everything was going well until we headed to the checkout.good lord it felt like we were standing in line for an hour. of course my daughter was wanting to go into another line. of which i reminded her that all the lines were long. i know we were in line for at least 20-30 minutes. then the real task was at hand, where the hell was i gonna put all the bags.kids,bookbags and alot of groceries.throw in two bags of cedar shavings for my rodents.and cat litter for my little furry critters. let's just say the car was quite full. i really need to clean the car out and file some of my xmas gifts that i bought like six months ago.omg....did anyone get the sexiest man alive issue of People magazine. Hugh Jackman was just waaayyyy too hot in the mag. of course, my super's fave was in there too.....we all LOOOOOOOvvveeee Johnny Depp:))
well i have groceries to put away stilllllllllllll

another day at work

ah another day at work. i knew i should never had looked at my stats today. it is all just really depressing. i keep trying and trying harder, and to no avail. what do you do when there is just nothing you can do to make people happy?

Feelings

well i stayed home from work today, because i was not feeling well at all.i don't know if it was the stress of work yesterday or just the blues. i woke up with a head ache and a stomache today.rather than be miserable at work all day, i opted to stay home and pop some motrin and go back to sleep. i got up around 1pm, still having the headache but that becomes nonchalant for me. day in and day out it seems.i turned on the kereosene heater, cause the regular heater is out and i was quite chilled. oh well. things at work are just plain crazy. day in and day out people are just plain mad or upset at the banking world. it does not help that i work at a credit card company. whatever you do, if you get a letter telling you about changes in your agreement or account. don't call the company and threaten to cancel or sue....it won't do any good. the poor customer servce reps and their supervisors can't change what is done. and that is what i am dealing with at work.i am thankful that i can turn off work once i walk out the building. but when i am there, it is just darn terrible and stressful. i smile and laugh but that is only because i am a very cheerful person to begin with. if i was anyone else, i would be complaining and griping non stop. believe me we have those types at work too. but i did not want to get stuck talking about work, i think when you get to a certain age, you start to appreciate things more. i have always been a family person, always have and always will be. but i seem to appreciate everyone more now. probably after losing my mom in 2006, it just scares me to know what is next. love your family, even if they are not good to you.just extend a hand, you never know when they won't be there again.