Christmas Letter 2008!

So I FINALLY got around to writing this last year's Christmas letter. This is what happens when you decide to jump in the car & speed down to Texas...you run out of time to do things. Now if I could just find time to print, stuff into envelopes & mail the durn things!
It turned out pretty nice this year - I used some of those great photos that my PMom friend took of us.

On another note - I came across Abby's journal this morning and read a few pages. Too cute!

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I played outside.
I used the potty.
I played with Robert.
We sang songs and read a book.
I like miss Val and Miss Karen.

How did you & daddy meet?

The boy asks that question. So I tell him the story...

"I wasn't living here long and I was taking a sailing class in the city and went sailing on a Wednesday Night..."

"when daddy sails?" he asks, "yes, when daddy sails" I reply

"did you sail on his boat?"

"no, I sailed on Lauren's daddy's boat" (Lauren is his Godmom & my cousin)

"I met a nice lady (whose husband sailed on that boat) that asked me lots of questions about where I was from and after the sailing was over I went to the bar and she started introducing me to everyone. There was no place to sit so I sat on daddy's lap..."

"you sat on his lap?"

"yes honey, I sat on his lap" (was a flirt or what?)

And then with his big brown eyes, he looks at me puzzled and asks...

"why didn't daddy just give you his seat?"

"hmmm, that's a darn good questions sweetie - you should ask daddy that question!" ;o)

When things don't work right...

Don'tcha just hate it when you do everything right but the results still come out wrong?

I posted a job position on a website and specifically instructed the website to only have candidates contact me via the website. A few days later, in walks a candidate wanting to fill out an application. WTF?! Thank goodness it was for a position that is currently empty! I'd hate to think of the reaction one of my "current" employees would've had if they knew I was attempting to replace them!

And yes I noticed that I didn't blog yesterday, quit nagging me! (LOL, like anyone is actually reading my blog to nag me! LOL).

Guess I'm not random anymore...

So my blog has been called Random Thoughts since the beginning..but I realized that if I'm going to post every day then I'm not really random anymore, right? Well, I guess my musings could still be considered random...but I decided to rename the blog anyway.

So my next post (remember I missed a day?) was supposed to be another resolution. But given that I didn't even keep my first one...I guess two for the year will do. Goodness knows I need to exercise more (I'm not overweight, I'm just under-exercised) and my goal setting and time management definitely need some work....but whatever.

Hmmm, guess I am pretty random...but does that make me average as well? ;o)

Broken Resolutions...already!

That didn't take long, did it? LOL

So it's 11:30 PM on January 3rd. I've crawled into bed and realized "I forgot to blog today!". Do I get out of bed? Hmmmm, don't really have anything interesting to blog about (other than the fact that I forgot to blog and it's now 11:30 PM). Okay, forget it - I did warn that on the weekends I might miss a day.

So I was up early on Saturday (the 3rd) to take the boy to a 7AM orthodontist appointment. Then I spent the majority of the the day working in the warehouse and checked email a few times. The plan was to work on the computer when I got home, but just didn't feel up to it. Instead I vegged in front of the t.v. So is it any surprise I forgot to blog? Oh well.

So today I enjoyed a massage (bought a spa package thingie back in September with BFF Fran). I was SO disappointed to find out that it was only for 20 mins which means I had to keep all my clothes on and didn't get "lubed up" with lotion (my skin is SO dry and could really use a good massage). But any massage is better than no massage at all, right? Except this was like a tease. And the whole time I'm lying there getting rubbed & de-stressed, what am I thinking about? The fact that My Man gave me gift certificates in 2007 for a massage and I never took the time to make an appointment & then they expired!! I've been kicking myself the entire year about this one. And now that I've had my 20 minute massage tease, I'm really annoyed I never used those gift certificates! Unfortunately, after wasting the last ones he gave me, he swore to never buy them for me again. Bummer.

So after our massages (Fran & I did them on the same day), we went out for a cup of tea to catch up. We figured out that we hadn't seen each other for an entire month! Could not believe we went that long! Yes, we talked a lot on the phone, but I don't think we've ever done a month without a face-to-face visit! Consequently, we both have another reason to be glad the holidays are over.

So now I'm off to resume laundry detail. I am so behind in getting this stuff done. Actually, I think the last time I was actually caught up on laundry had to be last March when the pool table actually saw some play time for My Man's birthday. My domestic duties never end!

Resolution #2

I will stop yelling at my kids so much.

I've already started making great strides on this one. For a few months I've been working on being calm in the face of grouchy, nasty, back-talking, grumpy kids. It helps me to know that my son has a possible behavior disorder (we're still working on a diagnosis). It seems to give me more patience in dealing with outbursts (knowledge is power).

I might should reword my resolution to just stop yelling at anyone...it seems the less I yell at my kids the more quickly frustrated I get w/ My Man so I seem to yell at him more! But hey, he's a big guy, he can take it. After all, he knew I was a moody woman when he married me (grin).

I have noticed a change in my son since I've started yelling less. Whenever he yells I calmly remind him that he doesn't need to yell (he seems to yell more at his sister than he does at me these days). I have also noticed that he has been much more polite and even nice to his family (sister included). He shows more concern and empathy than he used to. I guess there's hope for him yet! ;o)

Happy New Year...resolutions

I've never been much for New Years resolutions - I always thought it was like setting yourself up to fail (guess I'm a pessimist!). But during the latter half of 2008 I started working on goal setting and time management. If you want to achieve something, you need to write it down...and set a deadline.
So one of the things I've always wanted to do was write. I'm a bit on the wordy side...and I write in run-on sentences...but ever since I could read and write, I've journaled, written in a diary, wrote stories and essays and loved the printed word. I was even a blogger before blogging was the "in" thing to do. But as I've gotten older I've found I just haven't had time. So I started a blog and still only wrote sporadically. So my first New Years resolution for 2009 is to write in my blog once a day. Pretty ambitious huh! Now there are days (usually on a weekend) where I am completely unconnected (it's true, there are days I don't even check email! gasp!). So if that happens, I guess I'll need to blog more than once a day to make up for it! But my goal is that by December 31, 2009 I will have blogged at least 365 times.
Now I do not make any promises that my blogs will be insightful, interesting or even worth reading - but at the very least it will be written! I'm always telling my son that if you want to be good at something, you have to practice. It's not enough to just have a talent, you still have to work at it. So I do not pretend to have the talent of writing, but I do think I used to be pretty good at it in high school and college, so maybe with practice I will improve (and by the end of the year, maybe my blogs will be worth reading! ;o)
So here's to a new year...and blogging...