I'm a BAD blogger. I'm sorry. I'd promise to improve but I keep running out of umph.
I will promise to update while we're camped with Thom & Judy. I'll be on vacation and thus hopefully will have time to put together a few thoughts. Though I do plan to just absolutely enjoy the hell out of every minute while I'm there.
Lynn's doing better every day, in a recovery center and making plans for going home. She's an amazing example of patience and positive attitude. I am truly a wimp. I couldn't do what she's doing. Especially not with her kind of attitude. I love that woman, and hope to be like her when I grow up.
Scott's still keeping his head down and trying not to scream bloody murder at work. The same issues the always surface between semesters keep popping up. Perhaps it's good that the same things keep being the problems, he's gotten very good at repeating the same old answers and then fixing things in time to keep everyone happy. He spends most of his evenings playing a game called Left For Dead. As far as I can tell it's people with guns running amongst Zombies. He plays online with other equally engrossed geeks and seems to enjoy himself.
I procrastinated my christmas shopping this year and am just barely finishing...I'd like to say never again. But I'm pretty sure that won't happen. Tomorrow I'm going shopping with Lyndie, Jamie, and Kelcee (my younger Hillyard girl cousins) in Park City. We're making an adventure of it and spending the night in a hotel. I am SO excited. It's kinda silly. I haven't had near enough time with those girls lately, and even if we were planning to lick envelopes all day I think I'd still be excited. They always remind me of the parts of myself that make me smile. Or maybe they just make me stretch those parts. Or they are those parts...whatever.
Mom and the Aunts were going to join us for Saturday, but Grandpa checked into the hospital this afternoon, so they're all staying home to be responsible. Guess this is where I'm happy to be part of the kids crowd. I know how to be responsible but sometimes get to not be without too much guilt.
Work has been INSANE this week. Wednesday we did 34 orders. A normal busy day is 20 orders. 34 is a lot when you also consider that we were getting ahead of time orders for next week too. Also our holiday elves have been busy cleaning and organizing the shop. I believe that due to their efforts we may just come out of the holiday organized. I really love my job. The people I get to work with make me smile even when we ALL want to cry and stomp our feet. Going into a crazy holiday isn't so much preparing to tear our hair out as thinking of new ways to help each other get around the challenges. It doesn't make the obstacles any smaller, but knowing that you're part of a team sure makes it less frustrating.
I got a call from my canyon manager this week. I'm officially headed back to the campground. I love that job too. I really am blessed to have 2 places I love being that are my job. Yes it's work and I wouldn't do some of it if no one was paying me. But as horrible irksome projects go, most of it rates 0 to none. So on average both jobs rate 2 or 3. Wouldn't trade most folks for that.
I'm missing my quiet downtime. As many fun and interesting things as there are to do here in civilization, I sorta miss the nights where I got bored and just stared at the campfire and stars for an hour or two.
We're very much looking forward to a visit with Thom & Judy. I've lined up pet & house sitters. Oscar's going to live at work for a week, spending some of his time with a Stack, a giant boxer puppy(well less and less of a puppy every day). They're friends with very specific boundaries. Mostly Ocsar in cage, Stack outside cage. They have no issue being right next to each other, but it sure makes the rest of us cringe! Oscar loves work and will no doubt be spoiled rotten and have new words to share by the time we get back. I wish I could give him a visit with Judy & Mucuey but don't want to torture the bird or Scott with that many hours in the truck together.
We're spending christmas eve with Mathew. I'm looking forward to an awesome evening with two of my favorite people.
It' s now much later than I realized, and I'm getting up early tomorrow to get in a few hours work before my girlies arive and whisk me away.
Happy Holidays to all y'all! And don't forget the eggnog!
-m
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