Hey everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or is that too much to ask?

Today Honey's parents are going to get their christmas tree and we get to help decorate it! I've got my Merry Christmas coffee cup filled with coffee and the kid and I will probably head over there shortly. I'm not sure if they've gotten the tree already yet or not. But we'll find out, we are good at that!

Later today we are going to some form of Christmas Choir. I'm dragging the Little Lady along so that she can get out of the house for a bit. She's still barking at the moon. Anyone have a remedy for that? Cold meds and Cough drops aren't helping much.

Well, I'm off for now. I'll be back later. Have a good one!

So Christmas is over and I had a great one. No fighting, no yelling, no one getting emotionally scarred. Best Christmas I've had ever. Seriously.

Honey's family is very gracious and loving. They are what I consider a normal family. They actually care what happens to you and not what they can get you to do for them. I have a hard time sometimes, I'm not used to it, I tend to get surprised easily when it comes to people caring what happens to you and not because of what you can do for them.

So here the adults get a stocking stuffed to the hilt, and sometimes things that can't fit into the stocking and the kids get both stockings and presents. The Little Lady got some great stuff, some of which I picked out and other things that others picked out. She got a book that teaches drawing a different way, I think she'll learn a lot from it, and a drawing kit that came with a box to keep her tools in. She also got this great little Mannikin (how it's spelled, I think it's the brand name) that she can pose in different positions and learn to draw. It's even a female and we were teasing her that she could make clothes for it since she has two sewing kits. She got some other great stuff, too. Can't be beat when you are getting things you want.

I got some great stuff myself. I had picked out a bracelet that can be a necklace that actually fits me and I got socks that are warm and cozy. I also got gloves that I love because they are colorful. I got these lovely slipper socks that I have on now that are keeping my feet warm and cozy. I also got, thanks to my honey, the next book in the Kushiel saga - Kushiel's Justice. So look for the review when I've completed reading it.

Christmas was great this year. I hope to have many more like this.

Well, Happy New Year.

Most people aren't doing resolutions this year. I understand why. Why bother making a promise to yourself that you are simply going to break in a few days or weeks? Well I sort of have something in mind. I am not sure how well it'll work but who knows. I am going to work on cleaning up after myself and not so much with others. I can't keep cleaning everything all the time, even using flylady it is slowly driving me insane. So I am going to attempt to do things for myself by not doing things for others, slowly my sanity, if I ever had it, may return. Today I attempted the dishes that had been sitting for two days and I couldn't finish them. I asked Honey to finish them after dinner. He's watching Bleach right now so I don't know if he'll do it, I find the show quite engrossing. I love anime and I love Bleach and a few others.

Well, I am going to go for now. I am not doing anything exciting for New Years and staying up to midnight isn't going to be difficult because I laid down with a migraine early this afternoon. Yesterday an upset stomach, today a migraine, which I got in the middle of doing dishes, which is why I didn't finish them.

I believe it when flylady says that clutter can make you unhealthy. It causes you stress and the stress wreaks havoc on your body causing headaches, stomach aches, and pain throughout the body. My shoulders and knees hurt all the time. Yesterday I almost got sick eating a slice of buttered toast and then today when I went to make ramen noodles I almost got sick just stirring them. I don't know what it is other than the need to clean that is causing it. Then the migraine hit me, probably because I didn't eat the noodles, while I was doing dishes. Ohwell. I'll figure some sort of balance. I have to, especially if I am going back to work. I am not superwoman and I can't do it all.

If it's a new year, why does it feel so much like the old one?

If I were still in Ohio my best friend would probably be moving in with me, possibly forcibly, by the end of the month. Forcibly because it would be about an hour drive to where her mom lives and she doesn't like being far from her family. Obviously she likes her family.

The woman works three jobs and can't afford to live. She babysits three kids almost every single day, she works in a flowershop for her family and she 'hauls Amish'. Hauling Amish: Amish don't drive, therefore they call someone to drive them where they need to go, dubbed hauling amish.

Being as she's a single white female and has no children of her own, the county she lives in refuses to be of any assistance. She's lucky to have heat. She has a cell phone but she doesn't have a house phone, no cable, no internet, she had heat thanks to the system and her landlord is on the borderline of being a stalker.

If I won the lottery tomorrow, which I won't because I don't play, she'd be one I'd give money to. I know she'd open a daycare and run it the way it's supposed to be and the kids would not only get taken care of but have fun and learn things, too.

If anyone is looking to invest in opening a daycare that she could run, let me know... she'd be thrilled.