Holidays Are Here Again

Happy Holidays! 

These past few days have been extremely busy. Yesterday I worked all day before heading directly from work to meet my sisters and father at a restaurant for "Christmas Eve Family Dinner" after which we headed out to my aunt's house to their "Christmas Eve Open House." So needless to say yesterday was pretty busy. 


That brings us to today, Christmas day. I was woken up at 7:00am sharp by my younger sister so we could go downstairs and open stockings/presents. (I feel that I'm past the whole OMG! PRESENTS ARE THE BEST PART OF CHRISTMAS stage) Moving on, after everyone got ready (and we all stood around waiting for my older sister to finish her hair and make-up) we headed out to my grandparent's house to watch the three remaining kids open presents and have lunch. From there we stopped at home to let the dog out and grab a few more presents for my dad's side of the family before making the trip to my cousin's house to visit with my dad's side of the family. After a few hours of visiting we headed back home to grab something my sister forgot before continuing on our way back to my grandparent's house for turkey dinner. After we got home from there, I made 7 layer dip to bring to our work potluck tomorrow and now I'm relaxing and I should really head to bed soon because I have yet another busy day tomorrow.


Tomorrow I'm going to get up a little bit early because I have to cut up tomatoes and then put them on top of the 7 layer dip before going to work. I'm really not looking forward to the Boxing Day madness. We aren't having any fantastic sales or anything, in fact our sale started on the 19th. I'm hoping that it just stays steady all day so that time passes quickly without it being too crazy. There is also the one thing that I'm really looking forward to about tomorrow, my boyfriend comes back from his mom's house. He's been gone a week and a half and I can't wait to see him after I get off work. 


Anyways, I should go try to get some sleep so I'm not too exhausted for work tomorrow. I hope that everyone had a fantastic holiday! 

Sometimes it's the Little Unexpected Things That Make Your Day

I spent all day today working. It wasn't very busy, but the best part of my day by far (other than getting to go home) was when we got a return in the mail. In this return was a pair of pants and a note. The note basically said "I'd like to return these pants, they just didn't work out, here's my information and the receipt is in the pocket." Normal enough, until we flipped the note over. She had written this note on a page from one of those "page-a-day" calendars. This particular calendar was a Chippendale's calendar, so there was a large picture of an attractive half naked man on the other side. To which my co-worker immediately exclaimed "BEST CHRISTMAS CARD EVER!" It was pretty great. We eventually decided that she probably just grabbed a random piece of paper and didn't even realize what it was. But when we were getting ready to mail the "refund" receipt to her we did include a note thanking her for making our day (we did clarify how she'd made our day) which really makes me wonder what she's going to think when she gets the note/receipt.

Other than that there's really nothing new. Just really glad that I'm done my Christmas shopping.

A Break to Take a Breath

So now that the semester is officially over, finals and all AND all of my Christmas shopping has been purchased I am finally free. The only other thing is that I'm working like an insane workaholic over the holidays. On the plus side I'm hoping that my insane work schedule will distract me and cause time to fly. This is because my boyfriend went to visit his family for Christmas. As a result I'm kind of counting down until Boxing day as opposed to Christmas because I'll get to see him again.

But other than the waiting, I am really glad that I finally get a break (no matter how brief). I am also going to use this time to catch up on some pleasure reading. I have a small pile of books to read and a few more that I ordered off the internet that I'm waiting to arrive.

Honestly I haven't been updating this blog because I don't have much to say and I still don't. I've been studying and doing school work up until now. But now I'm done and slowly getting grades back which are only depressing me and dampening the Christmas spirit a little. Meanwhile I'm jamming out to Christmas music, working, reading and spending some quality time with the family.