It’s been a crazy month. I feel like I’ve barely been able to breathe. Since there’s so much to catch up on, here’s a bullet list:

• Work about killed me this month. I love Christmas, but the Christmas season working in an activities department at a retirement facility is incredibly busy and stressful. And I felt like I took on a lot more work than I have in previous years. Plus, our bus driver took vacation, which left me driving the bus all week, with my death grip on the steering wheel. My stomach is just now untying it’s knots. I am tired and absolutely beat. I don’t know how much longer I can do this. Hopefully January will be less stressful.
• My laptop crashed. Incredibly frustrating. My tech husband will be working on it, and hopefully will be able to get it up and running. In the meantime, I’m using his “second” laptop (one of the benefits of marrying a computer nerd… there’s always a spare computer somewhere) which also tried to crash on me this morning. I feel a bit like King Midas. Every laptop I touch crashes. Grrr…. Here’s hoping all my random word documents and Quicken data are not lost forever.
• Drew was in a car accident. Really not cool. He’s okay, which I thank God for, but the aftermath of it has been a bit stressful. He was hit in the head by something after being rear ended by some doctor that wasn’t paying attention. He had a pretty bad cut and we ended up in the ER to get eight staples in his head. He’s since had them taken out and his scar looks okay, but he still has a scar. And a totaled car that had been paid off and had $5000 worth of repairs put into it. So now we’re spending our vacation car shopping. I’m trying not to be resentful of the whole situation, but it’s been hard. There might be a separate post about that coming.

So that list is pretty depressing. I have to admit… it’s been a bit of a rough month. But here’s a list of some of the good things to balance it out.

• We had a very nice Christmas. Fun gift giving, fun time spent with family, and an awesome dinner with family of choice. And I’m now sitting by my beautiful LIVE Christmas tree that we got this year. It’s very pretty. It makes me happy.
• We are on vacation for the next week with no travel plans. I have lofty goals of getting my house in order and organized so I can enter the new year feeling a little less out of sorts.
• I reconnected with some high school friends at the beginning of this month, and had a really good time. Sometimes meeting with old school friends can be a little awkward, with nothing to talk about but past memories. Although we did relive high school memories, we had a great time catching up and laughing. I had a blast. I’m thankful to keep some old connections with people.
• I’m participating in something called FinishYear... a New Year’s Resolution list of sorts, but with an online community of accountability to keep me going. I’ll probably be blogging more about that soon.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I’m looking forward to a week of rest and hopefully a couple more blog posts.