Ramblings

Are you sick of looking at me in an 80's prom dress?  I don't look at my blog that often, but I am sick of seeing me in that wig and dress...I guess it's time to post.  The only problem is I have nothing to post about, so here are a few ramblings that are going on with us.

I was going to post a Thanksgiving post and say how grateful I am for our garbage can.  Right before Thanksgiving when we had all that wind, our garbage can blew away on garbage day.  There were several cans all over the street but they were all claimed by the next day.  We sent emails, made some phone calls, and no one had it.  We called the city, they gave us the serial # on it (note to others:  write down your serial #, you never know when you'll need it).  Then they told us it costs $75 to replace it.  Uh yeah...we'll keep looking.  A week went by...nothing.  Luckily it's just the 2 of us and we don't have much trash.  Then one night we're coming home and notice our neighbors have 3 garbage cans....they usually only have 2.  We called over there and yep they had it.  So although we had sent them an email apparently one spouse didn't communicate to the other about their find.  All is well and all garbage has been taken out and life is good again.  See what a great Thanksgiving post that would've made...yeah that's why I didn't post it.

Work has been extremely busy.  I am managing 2 major projects right now and both have their challenges and both keep me going from meeting to meeting all day.  I'm still not sure how to get my work done when all I do is sit in meetings and talk about what work needs to be done.  It's been stressful.  The other part of stressful work is that this year we have to use all our vacation before the end of the year or lose it.  So I had to use all my vacation plus what I had saved up from previous years.   I had to take 35 days this year and as I type this I still have 6 days left to take, which will happen over Christmas.  I know you're thinking, why is that stressful?...cuz being on vacation is not stressful and I love it, it's just that everyone else is on vacation and it's hard to get things done when you are at work...plus you still have your same job to do, just in less time.  It has been nice but it will be a big adjustment for everyone come January when we don't have all this saved vacation to use.

What else?  Something happened to me last week that I can't blog about for a while.  I've wanted this to happen to me for a long time.  Shane says that if I blog about it, I will curse myself and it won't happen.  And no...it's not that I'm pregnant, I promise!  Just to prove that it's not that I'm pregnant when I told Brigitte she said and I quote "I'm sooo jealous!!!"  See...she wouldn't say that if it was that I'm pregnant.  I promise to blog about it if it happens.

Speaking of Brigitte, in case you read my blog and not hers..she's pregnant...yeah.  Fyi...you should read her blog if you don't.  She's a cute pregnant girl, although she's not had the easiest of pregnancies.  Here's hoping it starts getting better soon.  She's having a girl...yeah.  I can't wait to start buying some cute girl clothes for her.  Although I just thought of this, it would have been cool to have a boy so he would have those Pace eyes that Tyler and his brothers all have.

One other thing, if you've seen this countdown on my blog and wonder who Stacy is...she's my friend and past roommate that currently lives in DC and she got a job and is moving to Utah at the beginning of summer.  So excited to have her back in town and especially in the same timezone as me.  I think we'll do a lot better at communicating if we're at least in the same timezone.

I think that's about it.  My life these days consists of going to work, going home, going to work, going home, etc.  Then throw in a few young women activities and you have the summary of my life the last few months.  I'm not complaining, it's just been low key and nothing to brag about on this blog. 

I've enjoyed the Christmas season so far.  We cut down on presents this year on my family side and although it's fun shopping for other people, it's been nice not having a lot of shopping to get done.  I'm just sitting here typing by my tree and enjoying being home.  I'll update again after Christmas on my Christmas activites.

Thanks for reading, sorry for the long time between posts and sorry for no pictures this time.  Here's hoping 2011 will bring more blog posts.