Christmas Outside Lights

Hello there,

I know, I know, it has been a very long time since I have posted. I can't believe it has been over a month since I last wrote anything. Where has the time gone?? I always think I am going to have time to post and then one thing leads to another and the day is gone.

By looking at the picture you can see how much snow we have already. Isn't that amazing? They said on the radio this morning that we haven't had this much snow at this time of the year in 60 years. I can believe it. The snow plows and city workers are putting in many long hours trying to get our city streets cleaned off.

I have been a busy girl. Between working at the clinic (40 hours a week), volunteering on the community association, selling my Epicure spices,scrapbooking and trying to get ready for Christmas, I am amazed that I haven't short circuited.

Work is going very well. We are in the busy season again, well at least for me. My list of clients that I schedule appointments for on a monthly basis is up to over 100 again. Last Wednesday I went to a course that was called "Managing your Emotions in the Work Place" It was a good course and I did learn quite a bit. The instructor was very knowledgable and had some very good tips and tricks on how to keep your emotions in check, from being angry, upset or snotty or rude. I am not normally the last 2 but the first 2 are sometimes a bit of an issue. But I am learning to be more patient and with that comes more calmness and the ability to let things go a lot easier. The really good news is that my Christmas holidays were approved. Since I got last year what I wanted, I had to give a bit, so I asked for the 20-22 off, which gives me a full 7 days off :) teehee, I am really looking forward to it, since the kids will still be in school when I am holidays, I will actually have 6 hours a day to myself!!

The community association is all right. We were supposed to have a craft/book fair in November that went bust when we couldn't get all the tables rented. Then we were thinking of doing a Breakfast with Santa but that fell through because we didn't get organized in time to do it. I just finished putting the newsletter to bed (wonderful newpaper jargon :) and it is now at the printers. It should be ready by the end of this week. If you would like to see it, I would be happy to email you the pdf format.

I am still selling my spices. Tomorrow night I have a fairly large party booked. It is going to be held at a school. My friend is the food coordinator at a school nearby and the people at the school have agreed to let her do this party since she uses a lot of the spices in her cooking. My goal is to have a $1000.00 party which would give me a good chunk of change to do the little bit of Christmas shopping I have left.

Tonight was to be my last scrapbooking class of the year. Unfortunately, I had to miss it so that I could get ready for my party tomorrow night. I am almost done getting ready, just have to get everything put in one place so it is easy to pack up and go tomorrow. I am still doing lots of scrapbooking and I have even branched into making cards. Card making is a great way to do a craft when you don't feel motivated enough to do a scrapbooking page. I should try and take a picture of a page and see if I can upload it to this site.

As for Christmas, I think I am getting close to being ready. We are almost done shopping for everyone and we were smart this year and wrapped most gifts as soon as they came into the house. The gifts are not labled this year, instead we put a little sticker in each corner that is numbered. On my palm pilot, I have the list of who gets each numbered package and what it is. This way no one my sweet, darling children are not able to snoop like they have done in the past. It will be wonderful for them to actually be surprised on Christmas morning.

I think I will do some holiday baking this year. It is not something that I normally enjoy doing but Boo loves to bake and I want to do some baking with her.

Well, that is my life right now in a nutshell. Not all that exciting but it is a busy one.