I gotta say, life lately hasn't been terribly exciting, or inspiring. Work has kinda been bringing me down since my last exam. I put some stuff off, so I was rushing to get a couple big projects done before early December, then a few smaller things to keep me busy until Christmas. Well, little did I know, things would BLOW UP. I became the trainer for the new analyst, which means a ton of extra time to get stuff done for a while until I get him to a place where he can actually help me. We're getting there. But then other things happened, and several states (many of which happened to be mine) were told they needed to come up with some ideas to become more competitive. Well, 2 states that I thought I already had done, yeah, they decided to change a bunch of stuff, several times, I'd redo my proposals, they'd change thier minds, I'd redo. I dreaded going in to work for a couple of weeks there. I couldn't give the trainee the attention he deserved. I couldn't get anything DONE, cause when I thought it was done, they wanted to change it. grrrr. But, last week decisions started being made, I could get stuff done for real. I can handle it now, busy, but not quite so overwhelmed.

 

Now I just need to get stuff done around here. I want to get our taxes filed, paint Shannon and Justin's bedroom and bathroom, get caught up on studying, do some cleaning. Maybe scrap a little, knit a little, read a little, exercise more than a little :)

 

We had our first official 'party' in our new house on the eve before new year's eve. Had about a dozen people over, it was so nice to have plenty of room for everyone, and plenty of kitchen space to serve our inordinate amounts of food. We had cheese fondue with 5 types of bread, chocolate fondue with strawberries, pineapple, pears, bananas, marshmallows, coconut marshmallows, pretzels, grahm crackers. We made taco dip, and Ashley's cheese ball with crackers, we had cookies, chocolates. Tortilla rolls. Yeah we went way over the top. But it was soo much fun!!! I can't wait to have a housewarming party and have all my family up! We probably won't go quite so far over the top, but plenty of yummies! And it'll be warm, so we'll be able to use the backyard to it's full potential.

 

Anyway, Heroes is on, so I gotsta go for now. I'll try to update a bit more regularly..