merry christmas!!

i haven't posted in a while -- its been busy over here. i managed to get sucked in to working extra hours this week, and while the paycheck will be nice, it hasn't given me a whole lot of time! but i did manage to get my baking done. i found some pretty simple recipes and stuck to those. i didn't labor hours in the kitchen over sugar cookies this year. although clay and i did make a gingerbread house. i will have to post pictures. clay kept trying to eat it, so it was a little tricky.

but it is finally christmas eve and we are almost ready. i am going to wrap the presents tonight after the clay meister goes to bed. we are having a nice dinner tonight because i have to work tomorrow night. so we'll eat our dinner, then go to the christmas eve service. then tonight we'll have clay put out a snack for santa and after he goes to bed, we'll bring all the presents out.

i'm excited -- this year he's much more aware, so its more exciting.

well, gotta go for now, got to start making dinner. :)

blah

today i've done a rare thing indeed and called in sick. in fact, i am going to make my way back to bed soon. i caught this fantastic cold, and am trying to recuperate. its not your every day common cold... i don't know what it is, but it is of the "nasty" variety.

yesterday, i went in to work. i had absolutely no voice and had to wear a mask when i took care of my patients. but then they couldn't understand me. which is frustrating to no end. after ten minutes of them saying "what?" and me repeating my self with my non-existent voice, i would take off my mask and they would finally understand. and probably get my germs. *sigh*

so last night was fun. i kept having to blow my nose. wash my hands. right after i washed my hands, i'd have to blow my nose again. wash hands... vicious cycle. and so i was taking longer because of that. and then people couldn't hear/understand me, so that took longer.

then i was feeling alternately freezing, then on fire, and then nauseated and dizzy on top of that. my head and neck feel like they are made of lead, and everything aches. and i'm exhausted. when i don't feel well... i don't function well. guess i'm kind of a baby... i dunno.

so i decided to stay home. and i still feel guilty for doing it. ah well, hopefully i'll recover enough today to work tomorrow. right now, i'm going back to bed.

i officially hate my hair...

(... but i'll keep it, thank you.)

so here's the deal. while in england, i couldn't use my straitening iron, because they have different circuits than we do, and i wasn't going to buy a converter just to do my hair. so i reasoned then.

but then i had this unbelievably puffy hair most of the time i was there!!!! i mean... think... 1970 hair. okay. so that was bad. but then i did something incredibly stupid. i thought, i'll cut my bangs. maybe that will make my hair look better.

right. now i looked like john lennon with red hair.

so i got a little frustrated with it. then... we got home and i went to bed and the next day i got up and.... voila!!! perfect hair. no stupid straightening iron -- nothing.

just... perfect hair. oh, well, i had put the hideous bangs up with a barette; becasuse i do not carry the fringe look well. at all. i just look like i got stuck in 1975. who was that singer? Edie? i looked like her.

but i complain about this mop, but i really wouldn't want to lose it you know. nov. was breast cancer awareness month, and that, along with other cancers, affects many people. there are many amazing women who are survivors of cancer that have lost their hair in the struggle against cancer, and so really, i am very lucky to be healthy and have all my hair. i shouldn't complain at all.

so i really don't hate it. but it does seem like it has a mind of its own sometimes.