Happy New Year's Eve!!!

Please enjoy, but be safe!! Cheers y'all!!!

I think it is only fitting for me to draft a to-do list for the last day of 2009, so here goes...

1. Bust my ass @ work for 4 hours (I love early days!)

2. Leave work @ noon today

3. Visit my man for New Year's Eve

4. Celebrate the incoming New Year with my munchkin

5. Work on a budget for the New Year to get some of my spending & debt under control

6. Pick up the house

7. Do laundry

8. Write out my shopping list

9. Go shopping

10. Write out bills

11. Balance my checkbook

12. Write out the munchkin's soccer & school pictures

13. Return my jeans

14. Write out my New Year's cards

15. Catch up on my emails

16. Finish writing my man

17. Write my h.s. friend

18. File my papers

19. Get back on track with WWs

20. Get ready for next semester

21. Start stalking TWEN for my grades (like I haven't been already!)

22. Order my Trial Practice book for next semester or purchase it @ the bookstore

23. Pick up my suits

24. Catch up on my TIVO

25. Get me some sleep

26. Register for next semester's classes on TWEN

27. Purchase all of my book's for next semester

28. Do all of my SADO homework, if assigned

29. Do all of my Estates & Trusts (E&T) homework, if assigned

30. Do all of my Trial Practice homework, if assigned

31. Plan out my long weekend

32. Plan out my week

33. Get the munchkin's script filled

34. Take the munchkin for his blood work

35. Schedule my next pampering appointment (monthly waxing & facial is a must)

36. Schedule my next hair appointment since my stylist is going on vacation the week I scheduled for my next do

37. Reschedule my next dental appointment...why is it so hard for them to understand I have classes next semester?!?

38. Check on the munchkin's next dental appointment, it seems like it has been forever since his last appointment...hmmm

39. Make out my list of New Year's Resolutions (yes, there will be a list!)

40. Get organized

41. Get my shit together

42. Get motivated to kick ass again this next semester & this next year!!!!

The Last Hump Day of 2009

I was so cruising through my work today and then everything seemed to come to a crazy halt. I didn't wake up in the best of moods...blue is not a good color on me, so to speak. Even attempting to fake it wasn't working when my guy called this morning and proceeded to ask me if I was okay, because I sounded "off." Then I started pushing myself at work and with about 4 files left to close out down from the 35+ I started with. Then the inside calls started, "Hey j'lynn, do you know what is going to happen at next week's major meeting?" and my favorite was the third person who stopped by my office and asked, "j'lynn, someone is saying we are all getting pink slipped at next week's meeting. Do you think it is true?" Come on people!!! I know as much as you do!! Don't you think that I would be in a much more upbeat mood if I did? Duh!!

Needless to say, I had to leave work before I got those last 4 files finished today. That irritates me! My goal was to have them all done today, so I could finish up in the 4 hours we work tomorrow and maybe do my ecology day tomorrow only 3.5 months late. I'm trying to remain hopeful, but 4 hours really isn't that much time, especially when I've really been suffering from this lately!

So then I thought I would take the munchkin to his follow-up doctor's appointment today, pick up our munchies for tomorrow night, come home, relax a little, get ready for tomorrow and get to bed a little early tonight. Well, as I sit here after midnight* with things all a mess in my house I ask myself this same question, again! From 7:30pm till 10:30pm, the munchkin was a total mess, scared he was going to vomit again (last Monday night's incident is way to fresh in his little mind). So as I laid in my bed with him sitting up next to me, with lights on all over the house and a pan sitting in his lap, we finally started to drift off to sleep to be awakened to my guy calling to tell me to drive safely when I trek out to see him tomorrow...

Now I'm off to wash my face and get ready for bed, so I can get up early tomorrow in an attempt to get all prettied up for my visit tomorrow and to get my arse to work on time to get that list of things to do done before the bomb hits next week!

*~~yes, I back-dated this post to go with its inventive title!

Those are some damn clean towels

As you well know I've been running behind from day 1 (hell, I was almost a month late when I was born!), especially when it came to Christmas this year. I was so far behind this year that I just pulled my Christmas towels out of the dryer and folded them tonight. They've been in there for quite sometime...washed and dried, but not folded or hung up. So, basically, I washed Christmas towels to put them back in the plastic tub for next year... Of course the only reason that the towels were removed from the dryer tonight is because I needed to wash my jeans for the next two days @ work...

As you can tell, nothing has changed in the last 24 hours...

Accomplished: 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 30

Started: 10, 15, 24, 29, 31, 32

Untouched: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 16, 23, 25, 26

Finding Inspiration Among My Blogging Friends...

Lately I've been been feeling down due to the holidays and various other things. I'm usually pretty upbeat with a New Year on the horizon, but that hasn't happened yet. But, I'm finding inspiration here and here. Thank you guys... Now if only my grades would start coming in.... I'm not a patient person y'all!

Accomplished: 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 30

Started: 10, 15, 24, 29, 31, 32

Untouched: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 16, 23, 25, 26

Nothing Like Visiting the ER on Christmas Morning

The munchkin woke up about 8:45am Christmas Morning and by 9:30am we were at the ER. Three hours later, several x-rays developed, and two scripts later we were back home. Dinner was relocated to mom's and the munchkin and I stayed home to tend to his croup and ear infection. What happened to "Merry Christmas to all & to all a good night?"

Now my house is totaled, our sleep schedule is all messed up since we went to bed at 6pm last night, I was up at 11pm catching up on emails and he woke up again at midnight and a second time at 2:30am and meds are being taken on a three hour rotation. Santa brought the munchkin lots of legos and the croup. Santa brought me a messy house, a $100 copay, and dinner packed in a basket...

Accomplished: 1, 2, 4, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 30

Started: 3, 10, 24, 29, 31, 32

Untouched: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28

Happy Birthday Honey!!

Not only is today Christmas, but it is also my man's 40th birthday!! Can you believe it? My honey is 40 today. I hope he has a wonderful birthday today and can't wait until next year when he will hopefully be home to celebrate properly! ;)

Accomplished: 1, 2, 4, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,

Started: 3, 10, 14, 24, 29, 30, 31, 32

Untouched: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28

Merry Christmas Y'all!

I hope you & yours have a wonderful Christmas! I also hope Santa is very good to everyone because you all deserve that and then some. I wish everyone has a safe holiday and are able to send the day with their loved ones.

Accomplished: 1, 2, 4, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20

Started: 3, 10, 14, 22, 24, 29, 30, 31, 32

Untouched: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28

Merry Christmas Eve!!

Tonight we will go to my mom's and spend the evening as one big happy but dysfunctional family!! There will be mom, dad, both aunts, uncle, bro, his wife, their 2 boys, uncle's son, his fiancee, munchkin & I. There will be presents to be opened and lots of yummy finger food to eat. I'm just praying for a peaceful night and I'm going to really, really, really try to be as nice as pie to my idiot brother! ;) Wish me luck!!

I hope you enjoy your Christmas Eve as much as I hope to!! Love & hugs to each and every one of you!!!

Accomplished: 1, 2, 4, 12

Started: 3*, 10, 14, 20, 22, 29

Untouched: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32

*~~I was making great progress on this one until my boss made her way into work @ 1pm yesterday and dumped a bunch of stuff on me. It really sucks being the only person in everyday in my little department!

A Hump Day & Holiday Edition of My To-Do List:

My Hump-Day To-Do List, Holiday Style:

1. Shave before my cleaning comes to clean my shower

2. Get my house cleaned

3. Catch up at work after yesterday's early departure

4. Go & see my man for Christmas & his Birthday

5. Write out the munchkin's soccer & school pictures

6. Write out bills

7. Balance my checkbook

8. Write out my shopping list

9. Go shopping

10. Do laundry

11. Return the pair of jeans I found at the bottom of my drawer a couple weeks ago that are now 2 sizes too big!

12. Pick up my scripts

13. Write out New Year's cards (f/k/a Christmas Cards)

14. Catch up on my emails

15. Write my man

16. Write my h.s. friend

17. Make chocolate chip cookies with the munchkin

18. Frost christmas cutout cookies with the munchkin

19. Spend Christmas Eve @ mom's

20. Get ready for Santa's visit

21. Have Christmas morning with the munchkin

22. Prepare for Christmas dinner here

23. File my papers

24. Maintain for WWs

25. Order my Trial Practice book for next semester

26. Pick up my suits at the cleaners

27. Refocus myself for next week playing boss

28. Get through this week's papers that I have not gotten to yet

29. Catch up on my TIVO

30. Get me some sleep

31. Get organized

32. Get my shit together

Unexpected Visitors

Saturday night while talking to my youngest aunt she confirms that her husband's son and his fiancee are coming for Christmas. This is great...I love my uncle's son! His fiancee I have not met, but from what I've heard I am probably not going to like her...I guess no one who has met her does except for him. I guess it is true that you can't pick who you fall in love with! The kicker was that she is highly allergic to pet dander and my aunt and uncle have 3 dogs. So being the nice person that I am, I offer the munchkin's playroom up for a place to sleep. I found out tonight that it was politely declined and they will be staying at a hotel, at my aunt and uncle's expense I'm sure. I'm actually pretty relieved because I don't like people being around when I get up in the AM.

Sunday while spending time with the munchkin my cell phone rings and after a few minutes of chit-chat I determine that it is my cousin calling from his duty station. He starts talking about how he is working on his truck, wanting to know if we are all staying home for Christmas, blah, blah, blah. It comes down to the fact that he may be headed here for Christmas...Sunday night. Um, really? Okay. Then I start to wonder if the wifey is coming with or if she is history. I ask if they are spending Christmas with the in-laws who live a few hours from us and the reply is "maybe." He said he would call back and let me know what he is doing and of course no one has heard from him since. Maybe he didn't get the reaction he expected from me, but seriously...I wrote you all the time you were in bootcamp, sent cards, letters, etc. while you were in Iraq (more so than even one of my really good friends was deployed) and sent cards, texts, etc. after you came home and haven't heard from you in a year or two now...seriously I'm not going to go on and on about you "maybe" coming for Christmas less than a week from Christmas. I know, I know...I probably should call and see if they are coming or not, but at this point I don't really care. I'm thinking maybe they should plan a little better since no one in the family has a room for you to sleep in that has a bed in it or even an air mattress. I guess maybe they can take the air mattress vacated at the aunt and uncle's...

After my boss telling me Monday that officially-unofficially-all new assignments have ceased coming our way and that the unofficial rumor is that all current work will be taken from us within two weeks, I was advised to rid myself of all the assignments I am currently holding onto with the hopes of bringing to a close directly and to get my files as up to date as I can because I will be spending the coming weeks helping bail out the hapless souls that we work with. Our goal now has changed to minimizing our little department from looking like total incompetents. The good thing is the fact that out of the 11 people in my department there are 4 of us that have our shit pretty well together. As for the rest...well, I will spend my coming days freaking out about the possibility of no longer having a job next year and bailing other people's asses out of the deep holes they've spent years digging. So I spent 8.5 hours busting my ass clearing as many files as I could off my desk with the thought that the next two days I would spend busting my ass on the 34 files I have on my desk that I need to still close.

I faced my fear at lunch time Monday and went and weighed in for weight watchers. At the rate I've been eating, drinking, not exercising, and the fact that this is mother nature's week I was prepared for bad news. Of course when I woke up that morning I was dying of thirst so I had already drank 32ozs of water and had ate an apple and some peanut butter by the time I hopped up on that scale. I was so delighted when she said I had only gained 0.2lbs! I chalked that up to the water I had already consumed and left very, very happy!! :) I know I won't hit my goal of being below 300lbs by 1/1/10; however, my goal (with the stress and the holidays) has changed to just maintaining and not losing too much control. I'll reevaluate my goals on 1/2/10! :)

After work Monday I went grocery shopping only to be disappointed again in our new Super Wal-Marts! How the hell do you not have plastic disposable plates days before Christmas? How are people suppose to cut their turkey and ham on paper and styrofoam plates? So then I had to go to Meijers as well...lucky me! I come home after hours of shopping, unload, unpack, eat and attempt to call it a night. That would be when the munchkin woke up acting all crazy and ending the crazy talk with getting sick all over my bedroom floor. Nice... With no other symptoms and him claiming that he felt fine, he went right back to sleep and slept like a baby until after 7am this morning.

I left for work this morning and the munchkin went to school only to get "the call" less than 2 hours after I got to work. My baby was sick at school. It is always nice to drive 40+ miles one way to get paid for 2 hours work to drive back those same miles to pick up your son to come home and spend the day eating chicken noodle soup, sleeping and fearing that you will be struck down next with the 24-hour bug that is going around. Of course I'm sure I'm that horrible mother talked about at school that dared to send my son to school sick to infect everyone else's child for Christmas, because my munchkin loves telling people that he puked the night before. In all honesty, both me and my aunt (the RN) thought the vanilla frosty I brought home the night before didn't settle well with him. If I had even thought he had a bug or the stomach flu, I so wouldn't have sent him to school. I'm just not that way, but this is a new school so these folks don't know. He was fine when he left the house, but not so much when I picked him up. This will sound horrible, but there were also 5 other students that had been picked up this morning from school for the same problem, so he was not the only perpetrator.

Now...on to hump day to get everything else done tomorrow plus an early Christmas/Birthday visit with my man tomorrow night. Yay!!

Accomplished: 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 25, 28, 30, 31, 32

Started: 1, 4, 12, 15, 21, 26, 27

Untouched: 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 23, 28

The size of this post is why I try to post once a day...so sorry for the length, but with so many unexpected visitors and potential unexpected visitors I guess I had a lot to say... Hope you all are getting your last minute Christmas stuff done!

With the tree up, the stockings hung, and the presents wrapped

I wish I could say that my job here is done, but as we all know it is not! Plus I think I may be missing one of Santa's gifts for the munchkin...damn it!

Due to the economy and the potential job loss I'm currently facing, along with the serious lack of funds and available credit, I've taken the frugal way out for Christmas this year! The gifts for the family are pretty crappy. I went shopping in the closet of j'lynn this year. You know how every year you end up buying too much for someone each year and put it away for "next year," but that never seems to come. Well, this year was that year!

I also have a few gifts that I received last year that just aren't "me," that will be going to better homes this year. Yes, I am "one of those people" who regift. I keep it straight where and who gave me what, because my decision to regift happens as soon as I open it. This usually happens when I get gifts at work functions. I'm sorry, I'm just not the kind of girl who needs a cheese slicing gift set, but when your name is picked as one of the last 3 out of 50+ people there wasn't much to choose from that year...

Almost all of my presents came out of my closet. The only things that didn't was the cutest pairs of gloves for all the girls in the family, but since those were on super-sale for $1.70 each I think I did okay there!! I wouldn't have added this to the gifts this year, except everyone in the family who saw mine loved them, so why not share the joy of hobo-gloves! :)

The munchkin is not getting everything he asked for either, which as a mommy it sucks when you can't get the things your child asks Santa for! I'm hopeful that he will still have a wonderful Christmas.

We...okay, I still have tons of stuff to do before Christmas Eve @ mom's with the family and Christmas Day @ my place...it is going to be a pretty busy rest of the weekend and week!

Accomplished: 2, 7, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 25, 28, 30, 32

Untouched: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 23, 26, 27, 29, 31

My Friday To-Do List:

1. Get my shit together

2. Write out my shopping list

3. Go shopping

4. Do laundry

5. Pick up the sno-blower as it has been fixed

6. Write out the munchkin's soccer & school pictures

7. Make sure munchkin attends his Den Meeting

8. Write out Christmas cards

9. Pick up the house

10. Write out bills

11. Balance my checkbook

12. Catch up on my emails

13. Write my man

14. Write my h.s. friend

15. Plan out my week

16. Get me some sleep

17. Get munchkin's second H1N1 vaccine dose

18. Confirm what everyone's bringing to Christmas dinner

19. Get waxed

20. Get facial

21. Get organized

22. Make sure the munchkin attends his Christmas party with my mom & dad at their club

23. File my papers

24. Confirm that I'm done Christmas shopping

25. Finish Christmas shopping, if needed

26. Get back on WWs the best I can with the holiday week!

27. Refocus myself for the coming week since I'm playing my boss' roll for the next 2 weeks!

28. Wrap Christmas presents

29. Order my Trial Practice book for next semester

30. Take my suits into the cleaners

31. Confirm my munchkin's babysitter for Christmas break

32. Pick up my medical supplies

Digging My Way Out of My Hole...

Shovel by shovel I'm working on digging myself out of the hole I seem to have allowed myself to sink into. It isn't easy and I find myself exhausted this week; however, after going through my papers today I realized I am in total PMS mode. Opps... That could explain so much of the emotional roller coaster I've been on for the last almost week and it certainly explains my bitchiness and my anger! Plus I'm hopeful that the more I get done this week the smaller my list to do should be come this Friday!

So far 50% accomplished and 50% yet to finish...

Accomplished: 5, 7***, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15*****, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 26, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37

Started: 2**, 3*, 4, 20, 25, 36, 39, 40

Untouched: 1, 6****, 8****, 13, 14, 19, 24, 27, 28, 29, 32, 38

*~~2 loads to fold and put away...I can't guarantee this will be completed before the next installment of My Friday To Do List or when I need to start laundry again this weekend.

**~~same guarantee for this one!

***~~these are done; however, it doesn't appear that these will be done and back to us until after the new year. :( My own fault really. On top of that, I was not happy with how they turned out. We waited almost 2 hours to have his pics done and of course by 7:45pm when it was our turn the munchkin was in rare form, I was irritated and starving! Oh well, there is always next year! Plus I had to pay top dollar because my year-long coupon expired 4 days ago. Boo-hiss... Needless to say I didn't buy as many as I normally do.

****~~these are all in my work bag to go with me tomorrow so I'm hopeful I can get some of this done then. Of course I'm going to hold off on mailing out the Christmas cards to see if we are lucky and get these back before Christmas!!

*****~~Since there are only two days left and tomorrow night I'm going to dinner with my LSBFF I guess I can consider this accomplished! LOL

Seriously...did they expect something different?

Needless to say, the last two days I've kicked ass at work. But after yesterday's "rumor" what did they really expect? Me to work on their stuff instead of my own? Seriously?!? Did they expect something different... ;)

Accomplished: 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37
Started: 2, 3, 4, 15, 20, 25, 26, 36, 39, 40
Untouched: 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 19, 24, 27, 28, 29, 32, 38

Is the end near?

I think I've mentioned that there are huge changes coming to my job. Well...more information was leaked today. Okay, yes I admit I overheard one of the powers-that-be mentioning some things so I called my source and put her on the case. Within two hours I was advised that everything I do in my job will be gone by the end of the first quarter next year... Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to me!

Accomplished: 5, 9, 12, 16, 17, 23, 30, 31, 37

Started: 2, 3, 4, 15, 20, 26, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39

Untouched: 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 32, 38, 40

The one getting hurt here

is me! Reflecting on my weekend and the vegetative state I found myself in for the last several days didn't hurt anyone but me. :( By not accomplishing squat I've put myself so far behind the eight ball, it pains me to think about it. Of course that could be the after affect from the migraine I suffered from while at work this afternoon. I don't know why I found myself sitting here for hours on end, not being able to get out of my chair, unable to even shower...I would like to think that it was the let down of the semester, but I'm not positive. Even though I suffered a migraine today and was beyond pissed off at work today, I felt much better today than I had in several days, which is a good thing!

As for the being pissed off part... In my sub-department there are 3 of us that have the same title and the same job. As you know I was off last week for 3 days. During those days, I kept up on my emails. I checked my work email every day, sometimes more than once a day. That way if there was something I could respond to, pass to someone else to take care of or delete I did and it was one less thing to deal with when I returned today. Of course, I also knew that I would be returning to some new files plus I sent a list of things I have to do before year's end. So I wasn't surprised to walk in this morning to 7 new files. Of course after spending the entire day dealing with these new files I was totally spent. Then I opened up the mail delivered in the late afternoon and had 2 more new files. Having not gotten to the items on my to-do list I was pissed at 4:15pm, so I called one of the other 2 girls doing my job.

My co-worker was at the office the three days I was off, so I wondered how many new files she received while I was gone. I should have known better, because to be honest I knew the answer and I knew it was going to piss me off too! She received 5 new files in the last 4 work days. Seriously?!? Come on people!! She then proceeds to tell me how maybe the boss lady is taking it easy on her because she reminds her that she has 9 files she needs to close out. My response was, "I doubt that since I reminded her I have 34 files I need to close out."

Okay...Seriously?!? WTF?!? Why do I keep getting shit on? And then I wonder why I had a migraine at work today...

I'm continuing to work on my list, but haven't had much success. Of course it doesn't help that I was in the bed with the munchkin @ 9pm last night, got up at 5:40am this morning, put a load of laundry in the dryer and one in the washer, picked up the house, loaded the dishwasher, worked for 8 hours (actually busted my ass at work), rushed home, made dinner, rushed off to my son's religion class because tonight was the holiday gathering (it was a total bust), and then went pseudo-grocery shopping. It is very hard to grocery shop when you are exhausted, hot, uncomfortable and without a list...

I'm hopeful that tomorrow is another better day, that I'm not nearly as pissed off when I leave work because I'm going to see my guy tomorrow night, and I check some more things off my list... :)

Accomplished: 5, 9, 12, 16, 23, 30, 31, 37

Started: 2, 3, 4, 15, 20, 26, 33, 34, 35, 36

Untouched: 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 32, 38, 39, 40

BTW, I totally skipped WWs today on purpose, because I didn't want to face that music. I've ate like crap for over a week. Maybe that is part of the reason why I haven't felt so great...I really need to get back on track. Not just for WWs, but for my sugar too. Not that I've been pigging out on sugar or anything, but I certainly have not been holding strong either. :(

Ugh...life can really blow up in your face when you take an unscheduled time-out, huh?

Motivation is a big challenge for me this weekend

Accomplished: 5, 12, 16, 23, 30, 31, 37

Started: 3, 4, 9, 33, 34, 35, 36,

Untouched: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 38, 39, & 40

The first, the only, the last...

Tonight, I went to the first, the only; therefore, the last Christmas party I will attend this year. I am not a fan of the Holidays. I usually spend it pretty depressed. I don't know why. I always have. I'm sure it has to do with my childhood. Doesn't it usually?

I remember being way younger and everyone telling me it was because I was alone and when I met and feel in love then I would like the holidays. Well, I met someone and feel madly in love and still didn't like the holidays. Then everyone said to wait until I had kids. I had my step-son and then my munchkin and I still didn't like the holidays. Then everyone said to wait until the kids were older and got more out of the holidays. My munchkin is 7 & 1/2 and I still don't like the holidays. Is there something wrong with me?

I try to fake it the best I can. I try and put on a happy face. I push myself to make everyone think that I like the holidays, but it is all fake. I will spend the next 2.5 weeks in a pissy depressed mood and irritated by everything. I will really only want to spend my days in bed away from everyone with no contact from the outside world. I will try my best to fake my way through and come Christmas Eve after spending hours at my mom's with the family and after Santa comes to visit I will sit in the chair I find myself in right now with tears streaming down my cheeks until I'm out of tears and then I will take myself to bed so I can get up the next day, fake it some more and put on the family Christmas dinner...a little happier just because I know the holidays are almost over.

Accomplished: 12, 23, 31

Started: 5, 36, 37

Untouched: too many to list...

CHI...Rumor or Fact? And who gets the last laugh...

Another piece of hilarity from my office...

When I first started at my office years ago someone told me that one of our attorneys had a CHI. I was sadden by this news, but was told that it was okay that she was okay and that she continued to practice, but if she seemed pretty flighty that this was the reason why...

Fast forward to this last Spring/Summer when I sold candy bars as my munchkin's baseball fundraiser. On a Thursday afternoon while leaving the office late, said attorney meet me at the elevator to leave and told me that she wanted to buy all of the Reese's Cups I had left. I explained to her that I had like 6 left and that they were bigger than the normal Reese's Cups. She said that was okay that she would come by the next day to get them from me. So Friday morning, I go in, pull out all of the Reese's Cups and put them to the side in my office.

I ran into said attorney a few times that day, but she said nothing about the candy bars. A week went by and I decided her closed head injury was probably at play and I didn't want to embarrass her, so I brought the candy bars home and paid the $6 myself into the pot. (Of course I ate them, but that isn't the moral of this story!) A couple months later while talking to my boss I made mention of the attorney with the CHI and she says that the attorney doesn't have a CHI.

Apparently this is a rumor that started several years ago...like maybe 15 years ago! No one knows how it started and my boss was amazed that the rumor was still being spread. She calls another attorney into the conversation and that person confirms that she heard this rumor when she first started over a decade ago and confirmed that it wasn't true!

I begin to laugh and they both look at me like I've lost it, so I tell them the story about the candy bars and said that I just chalked it up to an episode of her CHI and took the candy bars home with me...I thought all three of us were going to pee our pants we were laughing so hard.

CHI was a rumor not fact.

I got the last laugh, but I also ended up with "buying" 6 of my son's candy bars and probably gained 5lbs from it, so maybe the attorney really did get the last laugh in the end!!

Another Semester Bites The Dust

When I wrote this post, I couldn't even imagine today's post! It seemed so far away, but just like every other semester it flew by. Some days were really good, some days were not so good. Some days were horrible! After I complete a semester and take my finals I spend the next week or two thinking of all of the ways I could have done more, prepared better, studied harder, etc. Then grades will come out and I will swear I'll do better next semester. Then the next semester comes and it goes the same way the prior one does. I wonder since I only have 12 months left of school and then the bar if this cycle will ever change...

The other thing that never changes is...

My Friday To-Do List:

1. Write out my shopping list

2. Go shopping

3. Do laundry

4. Take the sno-blower in for repairs (hopefully)

5. Get the munchkin's refill or if need be, make a doctor's appointment for the munchkin

6. Write out the munchkin's soccer & school pictures to put them in the Christmas cards since it is that time.

7. Get the munchkin's Christmas pictures taken

8. Write out Christmas cards

9. Pick up the house

10. Write out bills

11. Balance my checkbook

12. Catch up on my emails

13. Write my man

14. Write my h.s. friend so I can put her letter in her Christmas card with all of the munchkin's pics

15. Plan out my week

16. Get me some sleep

17. Check in on a date to get the munchkin's next H1N1 vaccine dose

18. Go through this week's papers that I have not gotten to yet

19. Plan Christmas dinner and send out everyone's assignments for their dish to pass (Yes, this is what you do when you are a control-freak!)

20. Get organized

21. Request my pharmacy fax my specialist a request to increase the number of test strips my insurance will pay for

22. Request my specialist send a letter requesting specific lancets

23. Go to my mom & aunt's work Christmas party

24. File my papers from the last few weeks so they don't get any further out of control

25. Get back on the WWs band-wagon...stress & finals have not been pretty!!

26. Refocus myself for this coming week, because the next few weeks at work need to be performed with hyper-speed to get caught up and ahead of the game before the end of the year and the next semester starts

27. Confirm that I'm done Christmas shopping

28. Wrap Christmas presents

29. Order my Trial Practice book for next semester

30. Pay my Catherine's bill in person, because I waited to long to mail it...opps

31. Wish my Daddy a Happy Birthday on Saturday!

32. Send my man his Christmas present...

33. Take a breathe and realize that I'm done with another semester

34. Pray that I didn't fail any of my classes

35. Try to be patient waiting for my grades to start coming in over the next month

36. Passing out all of the popcorn and ornaments from the munchkin's fundraisers

37. Catch up on the back-up I have on TIVO

38. Take my suits into the cleaners since I've been carrying them around in my car for almost 2 weeks now

39. Put away the Turkey Day decorations (finally) & put up our Christmas decorations (hopefully before Christmas comes & goes!)

40. Get My Shit Together!!!

& I bet you thought my list would get smaller now that my semester is over, huh?!