Holy Cow, ok...so I obviously have a problem w/ commitment when it comes to writing. Lol. Actually I haven't been able to get in front of a computer with internet long enough to really do much of anything except check my e-mail. I am just hoping that my QA scores will come in soon so that I can get a raise and will be able to get online. It will be nice. Although, b/c I live out in the boonies I will only be able to have dial up but at least it's better than nothing. If I need to do something that requires a fast connection I will just have to wait until I can get in front of a computer at school or something. But it will also mean that I really will not be able to play WOW the way in which it was ment to be played. That sucks but I think I shall live. I can cope. Not like I am home enough to really play anyway. Playing a game for which you have to pay for really requires one to be online a good bit...otherwise it's not worth the money you pay for it. Oh well, life goes on.
OK, so Thanksgiving has passed and Christmas is coming up. I don't know how excited I really am. It's weird. I am broke as hell this year and don't really have the money to do much of anything. I am having to be really creative this year in my gift giving. I have made many things. I am probably going to make an ornament to give to the teachers that I work w/. I think that will be the cheapest and easiest thing to do. But this also means that I don't have money to buy anyone back home anything. This also blows chunks. I think that most of them understand though. They have all basically told me not to give them anything. Again I have been creative. I have bought ornaments to give to my brothers in the shape of the leg lamp from " A Christmas Story" and I still have to go get my traditional ornaments for my nephews that I haven't gotten yet. Which means that I am going to have to go find a good silver ornament that I like from Hallmark b/c I have a new nephew this year but I also have to get it engraved as well. Time is running so short....as is the money that it requires. As for my boys, T. and J., I know that T. wants a toothbrush w/ a timer on it so that he doesn't have to keep asking, " was that long enough," when he brushes his teeth. This means that I will have to give J. one too b/c he wants the same things his brother has. NP, but I also want to get them something else as well although I don't know what that would be. Not to mention that they have now moved to Canada. I am HATING that b/c it means that I won't be able to see them when I go home. That REALLY SUCKS! Oh, well, I shall live. Just means that I will have to take a trip to Canada this summer so that I can see them. *sigh* As for my sister-in-law I am drawing pictures of the boys so that she can have them. That is going to be her Christmas, although I only have one of the completed. I have to finish the one that I am doing for B. for Christmas as well. Then I have to find something that I can give to S. which shouldn't be too hard. But I am still at a loss for what to give to my parents. I am totally clueless. Oh well...time will tell won't it.
I am really dreading being home for 2 weeks. I don't know. I was kinda wanting to wait to go home until at least Dec. 19th or 20th but I have to go home on the 17th so that I can be there for the Bennett family get together. That is the only time of year that I get to see many of those ppl. Kinda sad really. I did get to see most of them recently b/c there was a death in the family and we all went to that but if it wasn't for that I wouldn't see most of them otherwise. So I have to go home on the 17th and can't really come back until the 29th b/c I have a Dr. appointment on the 28th. Coincidentally the 17th is my mother's birthday and the 29th is my oldest brother's birthday. GEEZ, I am really thinking that at some point I am going to have to make a trip back up if for nothing else than to just basically check on the bills, make sure that everything is ok. Just have to figure out who I want to drag back up to Athens w/ me for a weekend. It's not like I don't have a stream of ppl that would be willing to come, I just have to figure out who I will have the patience enough for to stay in a car for 4 hours w/ on the drive up, Sat. and Sun. and then for 4 hour drive back. HUM.....that narrows down the list a good bit. lol. Hate to say it but it's totally true. I am sure that my mom would be willing to come but I am also sure that she has a list of things that have to be done that weekend so she will not be able to. so that leaves R., S., B., and I am sure that if given time I can come up w/ a few other ppl that would be possibilities. Who knows. At this point I am not really all that worried about it. I will worry about it when it gets closer to time.
As Scarlett O'Hara always said, "oh fiddle-de-dee, I'll just worry about it tomorrow. Tomorrow, yes, things will be better tomorrow."
