Maybe a little late...

But I finally found a background for Christmas that I thought was cute... and today not many business are open so the phones have been very quiet today so I basically took a couple templates, merged them together, made a few updates and changes, and here is the template that I put together. It was fun working on putting it together... and although it isn't exactly perfect I like it!! Will leave this one up for a little while and then find something else. Anyway... MERRY CHIRSTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

60 Degrees

I went for a run yesterday after work... outside... and I didn't even need a jacket!! Just a long sleeve shirt and pants... in December!! Woo Hoo!! I was so happy. And it is supposed to be in the mid 60's again today. I may try to go running again today.

I was invited to go to a Hawks game for today but found out that it was at 2:00pm... don't have any more vacation days :( Oh well, will have to try again some other time.

Happy New Years Eve Eve!!

Joke

Uncle Mike and Uncle Ed both sent me this as an email... thought it was so funny I had to add it here... enjoy! :)

Leroy


A woman walks into the downtown Tennessee welfare office, trailed by

15 kids... WOW," the social worker exclaims, "Are they ALL YOURS???"

"Yep they are all mine," the flustered momma sighs, having heard
that question a thousand times before.

She says, "Sit down Leroy." All the children rush to find seats.

"Well," says the social worker, "then you must be here to sign up.
I'll need all your children's names."

"This one's my oldest-he is Leroy."

"OK, and who's next?"

"Well, this one he is Leroy, also."

The social worker raises an eyebrow but continues. One by one, through
the
oldest four, all boys, all named Leroy. Then she is introduced to the
eldest
girl, named Leighroy!

"All right...," says the caseworker, "I'm seeing a pattern here...Are
they ALL named Leroy?"

Their Momma replied, "Well, yes-it makes it easier. When it is time
to get them out of bed and ready for school, I yell, 'Leroy!'

An' when it's time for dinner, I just yell 'Leroy!' an' they all
comes arunnin.' An 'if I need to stop the kid who's running into the
street, I just yell 'Leroy' and all of them stop. It's the smartest
idea I ever had, namin' them all Leroy."

The social worker thinks this over for a bit, then wrinkles her
forehead and says tentatively, "But what if you just want ONE kid to
come, and not the whole bunch?"

"I call them by their last names."

Christmas Eve

And she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone around about them; and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them,

"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger."


May God bless you... Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

... if only in my dreams.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Well, maybe a few days early but I don't know if I will post again before Saturday. I am staying in Georgia (where it is 'warm') for Christmas but will be seeing my family again in March when we go to Florida (much better weather!! I am looking for the beach and relaxation!! In the meantime I need to find a good place to run on a treadmill and a good place to get a tan.

I hear that all of you in the north are getting a good amount of snow?? That is what they are reporting on the news... but the have mostly focused around Indiana so I guess I don't know how far north the storm has gotten. We are getting the most southern tip of the storm but it has all been rain.

Another update to the blog... my parents have gotten into the blogging craze and now have their own blog... I have linked their blog in my link section!! If anyone else decided to start a blog let me know... I will link their as well. It is a pretty quick and painless process... create a user name and password... pick a template, and you can start typing away. If you want to add links there is a little more to it and I can help you with that. Pictures there is a little more too as well... not hard just if you need help I am here to do that! Just sending out an FYI. I was reading online that email is now of the past... that everyone is now doing instant messaging and blogging... lol.

Snow??

Merry week of Christmas!! All month I tried to find a cute Christmas background for this journal but didn't find anything that I liked… oh well I guess!

So… yesterday I was sitting at home… trying to stay warm when the guys from Best Buy stop by to deliver the washer and dryer the guys got over the weekend… when I step outside what to I see but snow… SNOW! Ugg! It was very light and there is nothing left over this morning to prove that it had snowed last night but I didn’t like it at all! And it is so cold this morning… I had to pull out my winter jacket and gloves for the first time this winter but it is supposed to warm up for the rest of the week!

Back to the house updates... I was in the kitchen making breakfast yesterday when something happened to catch my eye outside. I saw an animal that looked like a very large chipmunk running around so I thought I would look out at it… I then noticed it was too large to be a chipmunk and the tail was way too skinny to be a squirl… I am thinking it was a rat… yuck!! I screamed and pointed and made a huge scene until it was out of sight… and I thought about getting an outdoor cat to take care of that kind of problem… don’t think that will happen it was just a thought. Still… yuck! //Shiver//

I know things get lost in a move but I can’t find my power supply for my laptop now… I know that I moved it from the old house to the new one… I remember having it in my hand and I have searched high and low for the power supply but haven’t found it yet… I will keep looking and will find it somewhere I am sure but… sigh. Another thing that happened in the move… I broke 2 of my ornaments… and one I had gotten when I worked at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Luckily it broke in the back so I am still using it for now but I don’t know how much longer it will hold up.

PICTURES!!

I am uploading pictures right now to my link... it generally takes about an hour for the pictures to be viewable... but there will be its own section (New House - Dec. 2004). They were taken on Friday so there are a lot of boxes all over the place... but then there still are.

It has been quite an adventure-some couple of days... I got out of work yesterday at noon and went to TJ Max for the curtains. I found some I liked but they were all still a little more than I wanted to pay... so I went to the clearance section. I didn't find any curtains but I did find some nice bed sheets. So I put the curtains down and picked up the bed sheets (twin size Tommy Hillfiger) for $4 each. So I got 3 of those for the game room (2 in off-white and one in navy blue) and then I found a king size navy blue sheet for $7. I have the sewing machine so now all I have to do is sew them up. We got one of my roommates a bed and we got us each a desk for our computers.

Today we went out to another part of Atlanta where there is a lot of discounted furniture... it was so crazy. We went in one section that was named the "Furniture Mall." I have never been in anything like it and it is very hard to describe... just that there was a ton of stuff in it and you could get anything from authentic Oriental rugs or furniture to your hair cut. It was like a huge barn had been converted into this huge maze of things and places to go! I also for the first time saw the gay yellowpages... I laughed so hard but the guys wouldn't let me take one home... LOL!!

After that the guys went to get the washer and dryer (which was picked up from Best Buy) and I went to Target and Publics (for groceries). I found out why most people don't do move during Christmas time... I got to Target and all of the carts were taken!! The experience was a little worse since I don't know the stores very well yet and they were all packed with people!! Eventually I will find my way around.

On another note... I know a few of you have asked what actually happened at TJ Max... well, I never found out. If I ever do I will post it here.

Done with the drive!!!

Well, last night was the first night in the new place!! It only took 2 trips last night for us to have everything moved... now its time to put everything away. It was nice this morning... I was able to get to work in about 10 minutes!! I love that drive!

I wasn't able to go to the house at lunch yesterday... actually... I never was even able to take a lunch yesterday. Ten minutes before my lunch break was to begin all of the phone lines for all of our customers in Dallas went down. So we were bombarded with calls. Then our phones here in the office went down… yeah… customers didn’t appreciate that and they let us know thru emails and web based tickets… between the 2 we had over 1,000 within about 10 minutes. So, I was able to get off the phone for the afternoon and help our web group take and inventory all of the tickets. The phone lines were fixed within 20 minutes but we got done inventorying everything just before 5:00 so I was able to leave on time.

I already took some pictures of the house with all the boxes. I took them this morning and we don't have Internet access there yet so I am waiting to get that before I can upload those... also, I will take some more pictures this weekend as everything gets put away.

I wish I would have had my camera on my drive home last night just to remind myself what I have been driving in. I was sitting on the top of a hill… looking at a speed limit sign – “Speed Limit 30 MPH during School times” and thinking I wish I was going 30. And then I look ahead of me and I see nothing but red break lights for miles… and then looking in my rear view mirror and seeing nothing but white lights for as far as I could see. I will not miss that drive!

With any luck and (knock on wood) no mass outages I will be out of here at noon… going to TJ Max (will test my luck again) to see if they have curtains or anything else we may need and then going home and clean, put away, and wait for the cable guy to come…

Last Day??

This could be the last day of the move... last night the guys made 3 trips back and forth between the old and new house. They moved a lot of the big stuff while I started at the new house... unpacked my car... arranged things in the new house... went to the old house and repacked again.

I got the kitchen packed up!!! I was dreading that the most because it has been a mix of everyone’s stuff. So I had to go thru every cupboard to make sure everything or ours had been packed while making sure not to pack anything that wasn’t ours. But like 5 boxes later all the kitchen stuff had been packed away.

I now have the Christmas tree back up in the new house... the tree is up but not decorated. That will probably done tomorrow afternoon.

I was thinking about going to the new house at lunch (to keep myself from shopping) and unpacking so I can go back to the old house to make the ‘final’ (hopefully ) trip to make sure we got everything. But that may not work because lunch is being provided today at work to celebrate Christmas. That isn’t bad though because I wasn’t looking forward to the rush hour traffic if I left here at 5:00pm tonight… but if I hurry and go to the new house, unpack and run it won’t be much better… I’ll see how the lunch thing goes… it may work out that I can eat while I work and still make it to the house for my lunch break.

Hopefully we will be spending the night in the new house (and I will be sleeping in an extra hour)!

On another note… yesterday I went shopping for silverware… I decided to start at TJ Max to see what they had. I left work around noon and I noticed there were about 5 or 6 helicopters just hovering in the air and thought that was odd. I then got to the complex with TJ Max in it and there were police cars and fire engines all over the parking lot and there was some yellow caution tape covering a lot of the parking lot. Still there were a lot of people walking around so I thought the store may still be open. I got out of my car and started walking towards the store when a police officer told me that the stores were closed and to get back into my car and leave the area. Hmm. Now I am curious but I left anyway and went to Target. I ended up getting my silverware at target but still haven’t found out what happened in the parking lot of TJ Max yesterday. I looked thru the Internet at the news stations and I listened to the news last night and this morning but no mention of what occurred. Still curious.

Unpack Car, Repack Car, Repeat... Day 3

So, my car has been filled again. After work I will unpack it at the new place, put stuff away, go back to the old place and fill it again. Last night I packed up the Christmas tree. It is now in one of my roommate’s truck to be moved to the new place. I will be putting that up Friday afternoon... I am going to be taking a half day off work so we can have cable installed so I will have time to put that up. It may be funny for the installers to see just that up in the house... no furniture... just a tree. But my 2 roommates may be dropping their car loads off at the new house tonight, reloading with furniture and going back to the new house tonight to drop it off (they get out of work before me)... so there may be some furniture in the house. I am planning on taking some pictures on Friday night after I get the tree up and Saturday morning so I will try to get them up on the website on Saturday as well.

On a different note, I guess Georgia has been jealous of all the snow that Michigan has been having because in the forecast this weekend is... SNOW!!! Ugg!!! I don't know what is happening... people have been telling me how rare snow is here but I don't believe them anymore... I haven't even been here a year and we are already having snow in the forecast!!

Day 2

I was so happy last night when I got to the new place and it had already been cleaned out... so we did a little minor dusting and moved the first load in. We went out to eat after that (to wait for the rush hour traffic to die down) and it was so nice that there are a ton of places so close to go to. We ate at Mellow Mushroom and when we walked out I could see all the building on the outside of the city all light up. It was so cool! I love the new place, close to a huge city, hardwood floors, and in a place where it is warm more than half the year... I am a happy girl!!

Speaking of temperature though… today it is only supposed to get to 40 degrees!! Ugg!! But the funniest part is I was listening to the radio this morning and they act like it is the end of the world. They are getting information from the national weather channel on how to bundle up. It made me laugh and think of you all in the north that have been dealing with this weather for months already!! Thought you would get a kick out of that!!

Anyway… after dinner we went and packed up some more… my car is full so I am ready to unload and repack again today. I think that we will be able to have most everything moved in by Friday. It will be down to the big items then that we will have to move. At lunch I am going to go to Target to pick up some things that none of us have (like silverware).

Moving!!

So, I am moving again!! This time I am only moving an hour away from where I am currently living... and much closer to where I work. Two of my roommates and I have been complaining about the drive that we have to do everyday… we all work within 3 miles of each other and we all have different schedules so we each drive the hour to hour and a half to work and back everyday. After some though we decided to start looking at some of the options to move closer… one of my roommates started looking at houses to rent and we found one that will be about 3 miles away from where each of us work (very centrally located) and we will be paying very close to the same amount that we are where we currently live. So, we filled out the application and found out on Saturday that we will be able to start moving in today. So, we filled up each of our vehicles and will go there after work to clean and start moving. We thought about renting a U-Haul but we decided to move a little bit every night this week and see how that goes. If we still have a lot on Friday we may decided to get one… but one of the roommates has a truck so we should be alright.

I do have a picture of the outside of the house from the ad…


The new place!! 

and once we get moved in I will take some pictures of the house and add them to the links.


One addition to the pictures link is I put a picture of the Christmas tree in the ATL section… I took it yesterday since I will have to take it down this week. I am planning on putting it back up in the new house but we shall see how I feel after the week of moving!

If anyone didn’t get my new address and they would like it just send me an email and I will get that to you.

Sunny and 70's

Today is the first day of actual sun that we have had here in a while... but I am not complaining... nope. It has been mid 60's all week and today it is supposed to hit 70!! I love it... but it does make it a little harder to get into the Christmas spirit when I am not wearing a jacket (hehe).

It has been busy for me at work... we have a new person in our department and my boss is having me train him on the ways of tier 1 phone technical support. It isn't too difficult to train someone but it takes some thinking into what I actually do... it has started to get so routine that it is funny sometimes when he askes a question.. makes me think!

It's raining, its pouring...

It has been raining all weekend long. This morning as I was eating breakfast the news was on and they were talking about flooding on some of the main roadways. They were not kidding. I had to go thro a few spots were there was a lot of standing water... and I heard a lot of sirens on the way to work. Luckily there were no accidents on my way in! But I really can't complain too much... it isn't snow... and it is supposed to get up to 60 degrees today!!

The weekend for me was nice and relaxing!! My roommates and I stayed around home (which I prefer to do when I drive so much during the week) and played some games. We went out once to have dinner on Sunday. We went to a nice Mexican restaurant that we hadn't been to before... it was really nice. I turned the lights on the Christmas tree since it was dark with the rain. I love having the Christmas lights on! I also slept a lot. I am actually somewhat awake this morning!!

Comments galore!

Wow... I checked out my blog today and I had so many comments yesterday... seems I get the most comments when I mention the weather... hmm. I guess I know now that weather is a touchy subject... hehe!! It is getting chilly here... but then I guess chilly is subjective!! Don't y'all get buried in the snow!!!

To Uncle Mike and Aunt Linda... just give me a call when you get around here!

Tonight is another gym night... going to go work out and get in shape. I am tired just thinking about it!!