Happy New Year!

Okay, so it's the 5th of January already, and I'm a little late, but if you think that's bad, I'm getting ready to finally send my Christmas cards out this week, lol - I figure, better late than never, right? *cheesy grin*

This week has been kind of a crazy one as schedules go. For the most part, my life is pretty laid back. Almost too laid back, if you ask me, so when I get a full week of running around, it tends to wear my ass out. Lets see...first I worked last weekend, then there was New Year's Eve. I didn't actually go out for New Years, because I had to work the next day. I hate not going out on New Year's Eve. It tends to set the tone for the rest of my year, as silly as that sounds. Instead, I stayed home with Hubby and Son, since Son is four months shy from being 21 and can't get into the bars around here. We baked cookies, which in itself turned out to be a royal joke. I was trying to make Snickerdoodle cookies, which turned out to be more like cinnamon bisquit hockey pucks, and Hubby made these no bake cookies which consisted of crushed corn flakes, melted chocolate, and a few other ingredients. His turned out to be nothing more than chocolate covered corn flakes, LOL! Then there were Son's cookies, which where supposed to be little round chocolate & cherry burbon flavored balls covered in powdered sugar, which instead turned out to be flat chocolate cookies, but still they were a hell of a lot better than what Hubby and I concocted. I guess you could say this years cookies were not going to make the top ten list, lol.

After the cookie malfunctions, we settled in at the kitchen table and played a game called "Buzz Word", which is actually kind of fun, and I watched while Hubby and Son got completely snockered. That was kind of fun too! hehe Then the clock struck 11:00 p.m., we popped a cork on some champagne, and I went to bed. Oh...yes, I said 11:00 p.m., didn't I? We are in the Central time zone, but we always celebrate the East Coast time zone, because that's where we are from originally. :) Some day we will change that habit, but this year our Son insisted, because that's when all his friends would be popping their champagne corks.

Then I worked on New Year's Day - which was a total drag. I don't really feel like I have much to call holidays anymore, because of my job. This year, for 2008, I have decided that my family is going to have to celebrate my holidays instead of the typical calendar holidays. For instance, I actually celebrate Yule, so instead of waiting for Christmas Day to roll around, we're going to have our holiday festivities on Yule this year. Hubby and Son said they're all for it - yay!

Anyway, then there was Wednesday night, which we all know is the infamous ladies night. Since I didn't actually get to go out for New Year's Eve, I made Wednesday night my New Year's Eve instead. I even wore the fabulous shirt I bought for New Year's Eve, which was a bit on the dressy side, all shiny black and silver. So, I go out all dressed up, and as usual I get all kinds of goofy looks from people. I'm such a misfit when it comes to this place. I refuse to spend my nights out on the town dressed in jeans, sneakers and a sweatshirt. While I almost always wear jeans, I at least try to dress them up with a nice top, and I never, Never, NEVER go out without fixing my hair and putting my makeup on. Maybe I'm just "old school", but it seems to me that if I'm going "out", I want to feel good about myself, even if I do get strange looks from people. Although, in all honesty, I started noticing recently that other women who regularly frequent the same bar I do, are actually starting to wear nicer clothes when they come to the bar. It's refreshing, and the conceited part of me hopes I had maybe a little influence there. *winks*


Well, one of my friends here is a bartender at the bar I go to. It ALWAYS pays to have a bartender as a friend, LOL! On ladies night's my favorite drink, Jack 'n Coke, isn't on the bracelet, but she serves them to me anyway. YAY! Blue 100 also isn't on the bracelet, nor is Patron. But again, she serves them to me anyway! *shit eating grin* Although, on this particular night, not only was she serving them to me, but she was serving them to me on overload. I had to question whether or not there was any coke mixed with my Jack, and there was a Blue 100 or Patron shot magically appearing in front of me every time I drank one down. She kept saying all night, "Have a drink & smile...it's New Years!" LOL Well, I did just that, and I got T-R-A-S-H-E-D! I really didn't need to be drinking like that, but I was sitting alone for most of the night, and the more I had, the easier they went down, which is par for the course. That's one thing about drinking...one minute you're feeling oh so fine, and the next, you feel like someone hit you with a Mack Truck. When the lights came on in the bar, I was so drunk I could barely stand. In the end, I called Hubby & Son to come get me, which didn't fly over too well with Hubby (he was being an ass that night). But they picked me up, took me home, and poured me into my bed.

Then, and ya gotta love this...I didn't get home until about 4 a.m., right? At 7:00 a.m. I get a phone call from my boss, asking me if I can work that night. Are you frikkin' kidding me??? I was still drunk when she called, and barely remember the conversation. All I remember was agreeing to work that night, because one of the guys we work with had a family emergency. When I finally crawled out of bed at noon, it's a miracle that I even remembered I had to work that night. I think I was up for about 2 hours before I crawled back into bed, and slept another few hours before I had to be to work. Then I worked until midnight.


The next morning, I got up at 5:30 a.m., and started getting ready for the day, because me, Hubby & Son were taking a trip two hours away, to a bigger town so that Son could spend his Christmas money. Let me tell you...after the last few days, the last thing I wanted to do was walk around a mall. But with a smile on my face, and bell's on my toes, so to speak, I got ready to go, then woke up Hubby and Son so he could spend his Christmas Cash. He had a great time! Me, on the other hand - all I could think of was, "PLEASE LET THIS DAY BE OVER!" We finally made it home at midnight, where I crawled into bed, only to get up @ 5:30 a.m., once again, because I had to work this morning. And now it's 10:40 p.m., I am throughly exhausted, and really need to get to a good nights sleep before I have to work again tomorrow. *sighs* So for now I will say, good night, and may 2008 bring you much peace, joy, happiness and prosperity.

xoxo