The One With Happy Holidays
I really need to work on reading through things before making a quick purchase. I just purchased a yearly planner of sorts and 99.9% of it does not apply to my life at all. Thankfully I only spent $3.49 and didn’t go through with printing it.
Why does every planner that is out there for download revolve around married/mom life? I am single and have a home but there is really nothing out there for a person like me. Perhaps I should put my education to use this year and design my own. Then I can sell it and make lots of money. In all honesty the “planner” I purchased was not worth $.99! It is awful and all in pink and blue. TF?
Do you like how I just popped in with that little random piece of information when I have been missing for so long? Truth is, I have not had much to write about and have not even had time if I did have something to write about. I feel like I have been on the go non-stop since before Thanksgiving. Only I can’t pinpoint what I have spent my time doing. I just know that I have not had much of it to do the things I normally love to do.
Life seems to be one big bowl of chaos. I am finally done with Christmas. Done shopping, done wrapping, just done. I do have a few thank you notes to write, but I am waiting because I want to do the bulk of them at the same time. On the other hand, I don’t want to wait too long.
Speaking of thank you notes, do you know how expensive those little suckers are? Not to mention ugly. I was looking for a nice package last night at Walmart while I was waiting for my photos to develop and the ones that I absolutely adored were $12! Twelve dollars?!? Needless to say, I settled on a pack that was $5 and didn’t make me want to vomit. I think I am going to make my own throughout the year so that come time when I really need them I will have some, that have a nice homemade, I care touch to them.
I have so many plans for the new year. I don’t call them resolutions. I mostly call them goals. I make a monthly goal list and then in December I make a larger year list. I need to work on that in the coming week. I plan on 2013 being a year about me. A year about growing as a person. A year of focusing on my health and being happy and family. I also am doing a big organizational project throughout the year.
I am very excited to start a new year and really a new life. I plan on being more fiscally aware (meaning no more crap purchases like I started the entry with). I am going to focus on school and getting the most out of it that I can.
The year is ending on quite the sad note. The happenings of the world really don’t need to be rehashed by me, but I do want to mention that I am thinking about all those affected by the tragic events of the past few months and am very thankful that my family continues to be happy and safe. There was a slight scare at my nephews’ school the day before Sandy Hook and I am just happy to say that all is well and they are on break and I don’t believe they know anything about it.
I am happy and thankful that friends are happy and safe this year. My bestie back east is happy with her new little bundle of love (that I actually named!(I offered up a list and they chose one of the names!). We have another couple back east as well that are happy with their new little girl who is big and happy.
It is hard to believe that another year has ended. It seems like just a few years ago we entered the new millennium and now we are 12 years deep into it.
Work has been going really good. I am happy to report that my year end federal report was submitted and validated and everything was perfect. I am really proud of the work I have done on this grant and now a piggy back on top of it. I have had no guidance and have had to figure it out all on my own and it has gone smoothly. There continue to be frustrations, but I am handling them and rising above.
I had a slight health scare and had to have some extensive testing, but all came back mostly normal, no big scary things to deal with like surgery or disease. I have decided to get through the goodness of the holiday food season then changes are going to be put into place and I am going to try to get myself to a healthier place in life and hopefully get off some medications and get into some smaller clothes! Baby steps.
Mom has semi-retired. She worked her last full week last week and is now on vacation until the new year. Then she will be working one day per week or twenty hours per pay period (two weeks). She has had a full agenda this week with two spa days for the boys, baking copious amounts of pumpkin and zucchini bread, two luncheons. She has one more stop to make tomorrow afternoon and then hopefully she can take the weekend and rest. We do need to do the grocery shopping for Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner.
I am looking forward to having a shortened week next week. I am working on Christmas Eve, but I expect to just be in the office for a half day and then I am taking the day after Christmas off. Thursday and Friday will be extremely quiet in the office and I would expect to leave a bit early on Friday as well. I am most looking forward to tomorrow. A very quiet and relaxing day I hope to work on some filing and cleanup. I would love to have all that done so that next week I can focus on some year end tidying up and planning/organization.
And that is sort of what is happening with me.
I wish you all a happy holiday season, whatever you celebrate. I do want to touch on the whole controversy with the Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas sentiments. A lot of people seem to be in a tizzy over people not wishing a Merry Christmas and substituting Happy Holidays. I really don’t understand the uproar. Happy Holidays covers the gamut. Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas, Kwanza, Boxing Day, New Years. I certainly would never be offended by someone wishing me Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas and I would hope that others wouldn’t as well. It is a sad statement when this is such a controversy when there are many people who are broken this season. But the battle continues. Everyday there is a post or several on facebook about it. I read three different posts today alone. How obnoxious is our world that people are offended by not being wished a Merry Christmas by their local Walmart cashier?