This morning I had my first dentist appointment in about 7 years. I'm not a gross person I swear. I brush my teeth and I try to floss semi-irregularely. Why did I avoid the dentist for so long ( Read more... )

I'm so discouraged today. And I'm getting sick so that makes me even more cranky.

Why can't I just find a group that will let me serve and be useful? WHY?

Man I really want to go home. *sneeze*

Last night was our small group Christmas party. The food was fantastic and we ended up having a lot of fun. First we played this game where there was a description of a carol (almost like a riddle) and you had to interpret what it was talking about. I thought it was really creative and fun (plus my team won!) Then we had our gift exchange and ( Read more... )

My weekend was great. I think it officially started on Thursday morning when I went down to the Augustin Children's center and helped Santa hand out presents. It was fun to get a tour of the place since I've never been there except to vote and to see all of the kids little excited faces. I love how each class contains a mix of disabled and ( Read more... )

Year in Review Meme (stolen from Tracy ( Read more... )

Em's (and Bee's) post about making pierogies and Christmas traditions made me think about the traditions I have in my house and about how I wish I had some that were related to my heritage like they do ( Read more... )

So this weekend was fantastic! Despite the snow Nate and I made it to the nursery workers Christmas party at church Friday night - it was a lot smaller than last year and the food wasn't as grand but it was still good. The gift exchange was pretty tame as unfortunately a lot of folks didn't really bring good gifts in my opinion - the worst one ( Read more... )

Deep in my heart I've always believed that magic things happen at Christmas. Somehow the world seems to pause to think of each other and do things that they wouldn't do during other times of the year simply because "Its Christmas." People make an effort to be with family even if they don't like them very much just because. People buy gifts for ( Read more... )

Hee guess what?! My sister called last night - I guess they found out that the party they were going to go to wasn't a nice formal one at all but just a bunch of folks getting together to drink at a bar. So they are all coming after all for the day on Saturday and bringing my mom! So I get my Christmas wish :D (or is it a Christmas hope...since ( Read more... )

Hehe this quote from National Lampoon's pretty much sums up what I'm feeling right now ( Read more... )