Merry Christmas

My cats hate me.

Oh My

I feel a little sick. My work load has just doubled. We are now serving as the city animal shelter. So in addition to running the office, I am also running an animal shelter. Are we set up to be an animal shelter? No. Are we expected to be set up by January 1st? Yes. Am I going to be working like a maniac to be ready in time? Yes. Should I even be taking the time to blog about this!? NO!

I feel like a complete scrooge. Yesterday someone decorated our lobby with the tackiest Christmas decorations you can imagine. I can't take them down because it will hurt her feelings. But these are seriously the ugliest decorations I've ever seen - I would rather have no decorations than have trashy ones. However, it would appear I am the only one who thinks that way.

Work has been a little strange lately. I spend most of my time dealing with people and, as most of you know, I don't like people. However, I can fake being a nice person pretty well. But lately everyone seems exceptionally stupid and I'm not handling it very well. The only job I have been able to think of that would have little human contact is those people who live on top of mountains and look for forest fires all day. And that would be quite a commute for Chad. Tuesday was a very bad day at work and I was ready to quit and then a client gave me $50 and a very nice card. Darn it, my faith in people was momentarily restored. But not to worry, I'm sure someone will take it away today.

My immediate family is having our Christmas on December 20th. That is like 8 days. Mum's gift I ordered online and it won't be here in time (sorry mum), Mandy's needs to be wrapped, and I bought dad a Netflix subscription, but I would like to get him something he can actually open too. Probably socks, he loves socks. Or treats for the dog. Brother-in-law doesn't get anything. Lame, I know - but my gift would just cancel out Mandy's gift to Chad, so we are both just not getting them things this year. I doubt either of them notice. So I guess there isn't that much left to do. I saw a crafty idea for wrapping presents online - I will attempt it and post pictures if it turns out ok.

O Christmas Tree

Click to see it better.
Notice how there aren't many ornaments near the bottom.
The cats remove them.

I've been informed my blog is lame and needs to be updated more often.


There is only one more week of AWANA before Christmas Break. I'm excited, but scared that when January comes I won't be able to convince myself to go back. Maybe the break will be long enough to erase the memories from my mind. I am getting really sick of a certain girl. And certain other leaders who let certain girls sitting right next to them play with each others hair during the entire message!! And these are girls who should know better! I don't think I'm being very Christian about this, so I'll change the subject.


I got a little bit of Christmas shopping done yesterday. But I couldn't convince myself to finish all of it - My head thinks I have plenty of time, but I'll have a panic attack in a week because there is so much left to do.


Chad has reserved our Royal's season tickets for next year - We are needing to sell some of them, so do me a solid and spread the word. They are good seats - 8th row, somewhat behind home plate - more on the 1st base side than the 3rd base side. Also somewhat close to a restaurant/climate-controlled type area thing, which is where I will be spending the majority of my time there.

Chad and I might go to an Art Show tonight. High brow, I know. The lady I organize every week is an artist and will be doing painting demonstrations at the gallery that shows her work. She is a little bit crazy and I would like for Chad to meet her.