Month: December 2002

Congratulations to Jenny and Aaron on becoming engaged! You’re one of the nicest couples I know, and deserve all the best life has to offer.

Well, in my rush to get everything done and wrapped, I didn’t take any pictures of any of the things I made. What a dummy. I might just have to sneak some pictures after people unwrap things. :P At least everything is done, including the cards…except…we’re leaving right after work, and there isn’t a suitcase all packed and waiting. I was just so sleepy after my concert last night that I didn’t even eat dinner, let alone figure out what to bring. (Of course, I made up for not eating dinner by having three krispy kremes for breakfast.)

And I am *so* not in the mood to work today, since it’s my last day before vacation. So far, all I’ve done this morning is exchange gifts with friends and eat donuts. Hard work, but someone’s got to do it, right? I am looking forward to spending several days communing with my new computer – I’m only bringing one small knitting project with me to NYC, small as in 4 hours, tops – and the copy of Photoshop Elements that should be arriving right before we leave. Maybe I’ll finally update those pictures at the top with something more season-appropriate!

If I do get lazy and “forget” to blog in the next few days, I hope everyone who reads this has a wonderful Christmas. (Unless you don’t celebrate Christmas, in which case I hope you have a wonderful day off of work!)

I just have to buy one more gift – everything else is wrapped – and write out a million more Christmas cards, and I’ll be ready. Small miracle, considering that I’ve had something – rehearsals, parties, concerts, etc – every night so far this month. I actually ended up skipping rehearsal last night, because road conditions were terrible, and by the time I got home I would have had to immediately turn around and leave, and I still would have been late. I think I’m a little saner as a result.

We’re leaving for NYC Thursday after work, weather permitting, so my updating will be just as spotty as it has been lately. I’m hoping to get a chance to really get settled in with the new laptop, and make some improvements to this site over my vacation. Mmm. Vacation. 17 entire days to do anything but think about the icky stuff going on at work.

Well, as birthdays go, today will not go down in history as my favorite. But mostly that was due to office stuff, and there were some bright spots – Jo gave me fun gifties and rice krispie treats, my parents sent me gorgeous flowers, and…I’m currently typing this blog entry from my brand new G4 titanium powerbook. Ahhh. Believe it or not, this is my very first all-my-own mac. It’s not really a birthday present, but the fact that it arrived on my birthday has made everything all better.

Will I have this job next year or not? I can’t stand the not knowing. I’m not going to know for another six weeks or so… The problem is, I’m starting to look at this as maybe being a positive thing, and now I’m almost afraid I won’t get laid off. How’s that for idiotic? I go back and forth between feeling like leaving here would be the worst thing, and feeling like it might be the best thing. I wish they’d just tell us so that I could decide how I felt. And accept it either way. At this point, if they asked for volunteers, I might just do it so that I’d feel like I had at least a tiny bit of control over my future. And my family merely suggests that I not “dwell on it”. So, I’m venting. Sorry.

Saturday night’s holiday party for work went very well – better than I would have expected given the news earlier in the week. Of course, I didn’t manage to get to bed until about 1 AM…and then I had to get up five hours later for church. I’m pretty sure I was sleeping with my eyes open during the parts I wasn’t playing for, because I don’t remember any part of the mass except the music. :)

And my house is clean, and decorated! Which is good – I have a rehearsal or a concert every night this week and next, so I won’t have time to do anything else until after Christmas. Christmas knitting has fallen so far behind that it’s going to become gifts for another time, and I’m just going to break down and buy stuff for the recipients in question. I have to admit, I’m nowhere near as stressed about the holidays since making that decision, even if it is causing a little guilt… Now if I could just find more than six straight hours a night to sleep, I’d be much better off.

Slowly but surely my house is finally starting to look a little more like Christmas is only 20 days away. We got our tree last night. I think this is the first time in years that I haven’t been able to wear a t-shirt or a light sweater to go pick out the tree. The last couple of years, the winters were much milder than this year is turning out to be – or at least December was! We also got new tree lights – the super-cheap lights I bought a few years ago had all managed to untwist, and they were starting to look like a fire hazard. The new ones are rainbow-colored! Seriously, there are 10 different shades of bulbs on the strands. I can’t wait to put them up.