Change

Well, I was laid off today. I suspected it was coming, since my client's business was moved to another facility in our company and they took over my job. There were no other accounts in my facility that needed another account rep. While it was hard to say goodbye to the friends I made over the last 7+ years, I think this will end up being a good thing for me. BTW, I get 4 months of severence pay and 70 hours of unused PTO, plus the bonus I just received. We will be OK for a while.

I'm hoping that I will get into a job that I actually enjoy or that I will finally get pregnant. I'm hoping for the latter more than the former!

I'm feeling a lot of different emotions right now. On one hand, I feel relieved to no longer be working at that place and I am excited to take some time off (DH said I should take a month off and just scrapbook!). On the other hand, it is weird think about not having a job to go to every day and I wonder with fear about the future.

For now, I will enjoy my time off, and try to leave worrying about the future until next month. Gotta get through Christmas first, anyway!

Getting my house in order

It is amazing the crap that piles up in your house after just five years! Holy crap! I am de-junking every room and have literally thrown out bags of stuff. It's so stupid, some of the things we hang on to that we never use, pick up, or even look at. It feels so good to get rid of it all and get every part of the house organized! What started it all was getting our bedroom done (thanks to my sweetie!). It looks so great that I want the rest of the house to look great, too. Here's a pic of it (no decorations or window treatments yet):

We also put a new computer desk in my scraproom, which looks much nicer. I still have quite a bit to do around the house and can't wait to be finished with it all. I have just over a week before my parents and my brother's family fly here from Louisiana for Christmas!

The Christmas season

The Christmas season is in full gear!  We have two parties to attend this weekend--one at church tonight for the adults, then a family party tomorrow afternoon up in Coalville, UT.  The snow from Tuesday is still thick on the ground, due to it being SO FREAKING COLD the past few days!  I hope we get more snow, as long as I don’t have to drive too much in it.

Though I am in the Christmas spirit, I have still not done my Christmas shopping!  I have one thing bought so far!  I plan on getting up early tomorrow morning so I can go get some things before we leave for the party in Coalville.  Christmas is fast approaching and I have so much to do and buy!  Ack!  How did Christmas draw so near?

What's been goin' on

I haven’t blogged in almost a month, oops! November ended up being a pretty busy month.

On Sat., 11/12, I went with my sister and two other chicks to the Depeche Mode concert. THEY WERE FREAKING AWESOME!!! Best concert I’ve ever been to!
At 3:30am that night after the concert, I woke up not feeling well and puked my brains out! Then, at 5:30 I awoke again but with diarrhea this time! Then, I had both AT THE SAME EXACT TIME!! Sorry if that is TMI! It was horrible and disgusting. I was sick all that Sunday and had to take Monday off. I was supposed to fly to Nashville on business but left on Tuesday, instead. So, I was in Nashville all that week—not too exciting.

The next week was Thanksgiving, then decorating for Christmas that weekend. The week after that (last week), I went to Nashville again. When I returned late Friday night, DH had our bedroom all done (we put in wood flooring, textured and painted the walls, and put in new crown molding and baseboards). He even made the bed with our new bedding! Made me cry, it looked so good!

This week, I have been a busy bee doing all kinds of stuff around the house—we are de-cluttering every single room in the house and getting ready for my whole family to be here in Utah for Christmas!!! I even took yesterday off to get more things done. I still need to do a lot of Christmas shopping! The snow we got this week really put me in the Christmas mood and I will probably get it all done this weekend.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!!!