DELIGHT in the new year

So, I've seen over on other bloggers about picking out a word for the year. I thought that it was a cool idea. I had a couple words in mind but yesterday I stumbled upon the word DELIGHT. I looked it up (I know what it means but wanted the exact definition, people!) and the verb definition seemed so fitting - make happy, experience happiness. Now I'm not depressed or anything like that. I need to make sure to delight myself every once in awhile--pedicures, craft time, shopping, lunch with girlfriends sans children and husbands. As a mom I want to make sure to delight Caleb and enjoy time with him even if that means the dinner dishes get done another day just so I can sit in the living room floor and play cars with him. Making sure he is healthy and happy is my #1 priority. As a wife, well Justin should be delighted enough that I married him right? Okay, okay maybe not enough but we need to delight ourselves with more date nights and going snowboarding, something he promised me that we will do since I have never been. But really just to experience happiness.

Do you?

Truthful Tuesday time! And this week's question is good!

Is there a Santa Claus?

Last week I heard this saying "There's a time in every man's life that he believes in Santa Claus, a time he doesn't believe, and a time he becomes Santa Claus." I think Elizabeth's answer was great. I will teach my child to believe in Santa Claus for as long as he lives because that is the spirit of generosity. I think a great example comes from something that happened to my brother yesterday. He went through the Starbucks drive thru, ordered a drink, went to window to pay and get the drink only to find out that the car in front of him paid for his order. Generosity and kindness right there.

So you can't tell me that there is no St. Nick. I believe and always will!

Christmas Spirit

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Nightmare before Christmas?

This week's question.......

Do you believe in ghosts?

Kinda a spooky question for the holiday season if you ask me but I guess I'll still play along.

Nope, don't believe in ghosts. And that's all I have to say about that!

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Truthful Tuesday

"What do you really want for Christmas that money can't buy?"

Well, since I've started this post at 7:50am and it's now 9:50am, looked at a few other peoples post to see what they say but my mind has been thinking about Chris.

For those of you who don't know, my very close friend Chris Franks was in a terrible accident in September. While in her husband's truck, she was leaning from the passenger side over the center console and into the driver side trying to give her adult daughter a kiss goodnight when she slipped and slid out the door, landed on her head on the grass. She was rushed to the hospital where it was discovered she had broken her C1 and C2 vertebrae. She is now paralyzed from the neck down. She still needs a ventilator to breathe but is making great progress and is now in a rehab facility and hopefully coming home before Christmas. (You can go to her website for more details, updates and info about her flower shop in Anaheim Hills @ http://www,caringbridge.com/chrisfranks)

So my wish.....is for her. Wanting some type of miracle that would be able to repair the damaged caused and she will be able to talk, walk, and live like the way she is used to. But that is not going to happen. So I wish that the doctors will release her and she can be able to spend the holidays resting at home, where she and her family want to be. See, her family is pretty much demanding that she be released since she will be doing the same things at home and will be having nurses and pt's coming in anyways, so why not have her home sooner then later.

My only other wish seems to be going to happen too! For many years, being a child of divorced parents, I've always run around going to many different places on Christmas. And once I moved in with Justin, his family was included too. So this year, I wanted to spend all Christmas Day at our house, opening presents with Caleb in the morning and having both of our families over for dinner. I know that this can't happen every year and that it will be hard to keep the same traditions with having 4 sets of parents between Justin and I just once I didn't want to do all the running around. It defeats the purpose of the spirit of Christmas when we have to drive from Elsinore, to Corona, to Oceanside, to whereever else then finally home. Well, Justin's dad finally said they will be coming over! I'm so excited! To have everyone over and make dinner, it will be good times. Plus, our house is finally big enough to have everyone over and be comfortable. So let the planning begin!

11 this morning....

So, my employer let the accounts receivable clerk go last Friday( I'll call her L). I was very upset about this decision and, although I didn't work directly with L and not trained in her position, I felt her supervisor told lies to human resources that led to L being let go. My company has slowed down considerably in the past few months and have had to let under performing field labors go but L was a very diligent worker and the company just threw that away.

I was not looking forward to coming into work today at all since I share an office with the accounts receivable department. I didn't want to face the a/r manager (I'll call her T) at all that I told myself I would not talk to her at all today. Not that I would be rude to T but that just because we were in the same office, didn't mean that we have to be besties. I was holding up pretty good to my "just sit and your desk and mind your own business" attitude until about 11 this morning. That's when everything changed.

I told Justin on Friday that if my supervisors came to me and wanted me to help with a/r I would reject it immediately. I didn't want to work under T; she is the most negative person I've ever met and I'm getting tired of all of it. It brings me down listening to her complain about everything!

So this morning about 11 am, my supervisor asked to speak with me with another supervisor. So I enter the conference and my two supervisors and T are in there waiting for me. And my heart sinks. They pretty much tell me that I get to be trained in T's position and I am to train T in my position so that when T is on maternity leave, I will handle her desk. This is the point where I was suppose to stand up and say "NO! T is an awful supervisor! I can't work with her! I don't want this position! T lied about L! L stood her ground and was tired of being bossed around by T and should not have been fired for that! Why does T get to say when L goes to lunch? We all go at various times as long as we are back in our allotted time? T is always late but tattles on L? She's knows L was good and was threatened so she made things seem worse! T had a huge smile on her face, very much like the Grinch did when he stole Christmas, while L packed up her personal belongings! But the Grinch changed!!!! T will never change!!!! NO!!! Can't do it!"

But I didn't. Instead, I smiled and said "I would love to, it would be a great challenge and I'm ready to learn something new with this company."

What's wrong with me! I knew this was going to happen and I practice my speech (or vent) in my head all weekend long. But with T being in the conference room it threw me off. Plus, I wasn't asked if this was something I wanted to do or given time to think about it.

Our safety manager came in this morning and was all cheery. He said "The sun is still shining. It's just on top of the clouds!" At the time I thought that he is the weirdest person here. But after 11 am I know that I was suppose to hear that. The next few months might be cloudy and rainy but the sun is still shining. And once T goes on maternity leave maybe there will be rainbow.....

Would you???

So Elizabeth does this this question thing every Tuesday. I think I might start answering them. This week will be my first week.

Would you get a boob job?

Ami's TRUTHFUL answer.....

YES!!!!!

In fact, I can't wait for it!!! Having a baby and breastfeeding has caused my girls to be old ladies and I am no old lady yet! I'm hoping that for my 30th birthday I can get an updated pair. Granted if I've had our second and final child and done breastfeeding. I think that implants have come along away and you won't look like a bimbo with a pair of fake boobs. My step mom finally got a boob job a few years ago and you can't even tell, wouldn't even know, even in a bathing suit that they are fake. Her girls look incredibly natural. I so look forward to the day that I can put on a cute tank top and not have to worry about my bra peeking out or buying uncomfortable under wire bras just for the support. I guess I better hurry up and have the next kid.....

Edit....

I'm sure I should have uploaded all the pictures from Halloween through our trek across the divide and back for Thanksgiving last night while Justin worked BUT that didn't happen. And it probably won't happen anytime tonight because it is tree trimming tonight, tomorrow is gym (if my partner can make it ;)) so maybe by the end of the week or Sunday when Justin has another night outage. I'm going with Sunday!