Merry Christmas

Well with all of the yucky stuff I am going through I am going to make Christmas great because Christmas is not about having a job or presents. I had to remind myself that Christmas is about another VERY important reason. That put things in perspective right away. I am going to be happy! The festivities start tonight. We are doing Christmas with my mom this evening and then doing Christmas day with my dad. It will be an eventful couple of days. I am really thankful for my supportive family. I wouldn't want to do anything else on Christmas but to spend time with them. Next year is going to be a brand new year and a really good one for me. My future got brighter the day I got let go from my job. I am excited to see what God has in store for me in 2009. I hope you guys are ready to come along with me on this crazy journey. :) Merry Christmas!!!

Well Christmas is supposed to be a fun, joyful time of year for everyone. I am having a hard time with that today. I just found out this morning that I was let go from my job. I understand that everyone is taking a hit because of how bad the economy is, but it didn't really hit home until it directly effected me. I know things will be okay but it is just hard right now. I have never had this happen before. It kind of came out of no where for me to be honest. I have a job until Dec 31. See, bosses should have these conversations with people right before it is time to leave because now that I have received this crappy news I still have to work all day and be really nice to people. I need to go home and process all of this. Since I didn't know this was coming I didn't look for any back up opportunity. I know I am kind of rambling but I really just don't know what to do right now. Lots of prayers are greatly appreciated right now. I know I can turn things around and find a really good job. I need to get on that mind set....I don't think it will be today though. So sad.

So my cat finally got mad at me, and I certainly paid for it. Typically when I go to bed "Lucky" starts out in the bed with me and then sometime during the night he leaves. I am still not sure where he sleeps, but oh well. Well, a couple of nights ago around 2:30 am he decided to play with anything in my room that made noise. I woke up of course and it took me about 45 minutes to finally get him to lay in bed with me and go back to sleep. Yeah, so it definitely happened again the next night. I was so tired and didn't want to deal with it so I picked him up, put him outside my door, and shut it. When I was leaving for work the next day I saw that he had basically destroyed my living room. Pictures on the walls were half hanging and any pictures I had on shelves were knocked off. Basically any nick knack sort of thing was on the floor. He clearly was upset with me for locking him out of my room. I am really glad nothing broke because he got on to the high shelves. Not really sure how he did that. Oh well. I took the chance and locked him out again last night and much to my surprise he did fine and nothing was knocked over. I feel bad not letting him in my room, but if I am going to stay awake at work, I need a good nights sleep. Oh the joys of having a cat. :)

I had a fabulous 5 days off of work. It was a bear coming back yesterday. I was EXHAUSTED! Thanksgiving was great, as always. There was more food then we knew what to do with. Since we have to split it between my mom and my dad, we had lunch with dad and dinner with mom. At the end of the day I honestly felt gross because I had eaten so much. Yay for that extra 5 lbs. that have taken up a new home on my hiny. Football was good and bad. Awesome for the Cowboys, sorry for the Aggies. I had wonderful, wonderful birthday on Monday. My friends gave me a lot of love that day. I took the day off from work because really, who wants to work on their birthday. Since my mom and I share our birthdays we decided to spend the day together. We hadn't done that in a very long time. We went to lunch, a movie, and then dinner. It was very eventful. Okay lets talk about the movie. We saw the movie 4 Christmases. It was hilarious! I highly recommend it. Yeah so I may have seen that movie 2 times in 4 days. Is that weird? I saw it on Thanksgiving day with my grandad, aunt, and uncle. It was a spur of the moment thing on Thanksgiving. I told my mom that I would see it again with her because it was so funny. I think I am done seeing that movie for awhile. I got a new digital camera for my birthday. I was so happy about that. I had one but with all of my moving around the charger got lost. I loved that camera so much that I went to 4 different stores looking for a charger. Technology baffles me because even though the camera is only 6 years old the people at the stores acted like I had bought it in the 80's. It really is a perfectly good camera. After the 4th store I knew I was going to have to give it up. I was so sad. It is sitting in my room on my dresser because I can't bring myself to throw it away. I do love my new camera. I am still trying to figure it out but so far it working out just fine. It is so small that I keep it in my purse all of the time. Hey, I might just need to whip it out and capture a picture, you never know. I haven't ever had to do that before but it could happen at any time. Always be prepared. I still have birthday dinner and lunches with my friends through next week so I will be quite busy. :) Oh, and my sister is only 15 weeks away from having little Brody. Her belly is growing and is really cute. So exciting!