At Last...

After what seemed like the worst longest day of my entire year at InvestLinc, I am Blessed beyond measure by the man I have come to despise greatly. I received a call at about 7:30 this morning from my boss Doug. He called and was already at the office working this morning. He had given me this last minute project to complete then when it came down to the wire he said I could finish it when I get back. I was quite angry with that because he made it seem like I wasn't going to be able to leave until this thing was completed. So anyways, during our call he asked if I was comfortable with leaving the work as it was and if I had anything else that had to be completed before I left. I responded with one thing I hadn't completed yesterday, and he said... "I will take care of it, I am on a roll here this morning" I almost fainted. He then preceded to tell me don't worry about coming in today. I said in a shocked voice OK, Thank you so much Doug. He said Have a Merry Christmas and we will see you when you get back.

I am still in a state of shock about the whole thing. He surprised me so much. I didn't think he would ever say something so nice. I guess some people do have Christmas Spirit after all.

See ya in a couple of days all ya'll Springfield people.

The season of "Last Minute"

Well I am going to kind of follow Joel and post about what I like and don't like about this season.

I am going to start however with the things I like or are looking forward to:

1. Seeing all my family and friends and not having to do it in a matter of 2 days. We will be home for 10-11 days this trip.
2. Giving gifts to all my family.
3. I get 7.5 days off from work.
4. Christmas Music- I know that some people (Josh) can't stand it but I love to listen to the songs of the season, just because you only hear them for 1 month a year, so they don't get old so fast. I will admit though that I do get burnt out by the end of the season.

Now, I want to discuss the things I dislike:

1. Traffic is nuts. We live off a major road through our town and it has been a zoo. I went out on Saturday to a store and had to drive around the parking lot 3 times to find an empty parking space, and that was only because someone pulled out.
2. Having so much to do, so many places to go... it is the season of never ending errands and parties. Come January I might get to rest a little.
3. Now this one is a big one and not neccesarily at Christmas time only... Last Minute stuff. It is Wednesday and one of my bosses sprung something on me last minute that he has known about for a couple of months and I am supposed to leave at noon tomorrow to go to OH. I just hate that about people. They don't think it is important to get things to people in a reasonable time so we can actually do the work.. AHHHHHHHH I am so frustrated with this. Josh is dealing with this same thing with people for the church. He has to get so much info from other people to do his job and they don't get in a hurry to get it to him. I understand that people are busy but Josh started working on this stuff the beginning of this month and still has stuff to finish before we can leave.
4. The rudeness of people out at stores: people don't say excuse me, they don't have manners, it just drives me crazy. Why do people not use manners at Christmas time? Is it in some kind of code of conduct that you forget how to be polite at this time of year. This season would be so much better if people would be more polite than normal. I guess I can always hope!


Well I think that covers it. See ya'll later.

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Josh's wonderful gift!

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Here are the gifts Josh and I ended up with from our couples white elephant gift exchange.

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Santa-Picture
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It seems that the weeks of boredom are not nearly over. I have spent about an hour today just coloring this picture just to have something to do. I got it off a site called Merry-Christmas.com. It had games and pictures, lots of stuff to keep a weary employee from going absolutely stir crazy. If any one has ideas for things to do, please post comments.
See ya in about 2 weeks.

The end and the beginning

Well here I am back to the blog world. I apologize that I don't post more often, but things just haven't been that interesting lately.

I am officially done with my Intro to Computer Systems class this semester. My professor told us last night at class. We just had to take one last chapter test so to speak and we were done. NO FINAL!!!! He is taking us all out for pizza next week though. I have really had it easy this semester because I was the assistant and didn't have to do any of the homework, although I did some, or take any of the chapter tests, which I also took some of these. I felt good that I did more than I had too, but I could have challenged myself so much more. SO this would be the end of a semester, but the beginning of the remainder of my college career, which will probably last the next 5 years at the rate I am going.

Next semester I am planning to take 2 classes: Beginning Algebra which will be 3 hours on Tuesday nights. I am also taking Music Appreciation, also a three hour class but on Thursday nights. I am a little worried that it will be to much for me to handle, but I also want to challenge myself. I want to get my Associate degree as quickly as possible, which means more than one class per semester. I have asked Josh to help keep me "on task" during the semester, but I usally get angry with him when he questions my motives and such. Please pray that I will find my Music Apprec. class to be more of a "pasttime" that I enjoy rather than a class of homework and reading. One other reason I took that class was because I have to go to events and things to see music in action, so now Josh has to take me!

Has anyone been to the movies lately? What movies are worth paying top dollar to see in the Theatre?

We are coming home in 21 days. See ya soon!