A new year

2008 is nearing it's end and all I have to say about that is good riddance. 2008 was the year from hell as far as I am concerned. I got a beautiful baby girl out of it but other than that it pretty much sucked for us. I started having my gall bladder attacks in January and after delivering Soren on Feb 11 I thought they were finally over but then on the night of our anniversary I had the worst one ever and on March 1 was in emergency surgery to have my gall bladder removed. Less than two weeks later Raymond went in to have his gall bladder removed, he had to take fmla leave from work to recover and then all of the mess with Dannon started, he was not allowed to return to work until July 21 and was unlawfully fired on Aug 20 our lawyers are still going back and forth and we hope to be able to resolve the situation early next year. Some good news was that I was able to start a job about 10 days after Ray lost his but then this past month found out I will probably be laid off mid January. Luckily Ray also found a new job and even better is the fact that he absolutely loves it. He has enjoyed the challenge of working on "older" equipment and being one of two maintenance technicians plus there is the added bonus that his new title is Engineer and he is a department head. He may make less money but I would rather he be poor and happy then making tons of money and miserable. I guess if I look at it from a different point of view, losing his job with Dannon was a blessing but it has made for a very stressful and difficult year. I have very much enjoyed my job with Fairchild and despite the layoffs I cannot think of a company I would rather work for, they have treated me so good and I honestly love my job, I am hopeful that there will be enough people signing up for the voluntary layoff program that my job will be safe but I have to be resonable with myself and prepared for the very real and likely possibility that come mid january I will be looking for a new job. Anngee recently posted that the new year gets her motivated to make changes and set goals and I feel the same way. I am going to try to make 2009 a better year than this past year has been and hopefully this time next year I will be able to say I am sad to see it end.

Fluffy Butt

So for a few months now this adorable stray kitty has been coming to my house everyday (probably because a new bowl of food miraculously appeared everyday). As the weather began getting colder I began finding the cute litte kitty laying right outside my front door when I would leave for work in the morning. I have a weakness for kitties especially sweet ones, I couldn't leave her outside to freeze so I have officially adopted this cute little kitty, we have not named her yet so I call her fluffy butt, here are some pics of the adorable little fluffy butt!!





Raja just loves fluffy butt but fluffy butt is not so fond of poor raja, we did get some cute pics of them being curious about each other.

window painting

This year I went for something a little more difficult than I normally do. I decided to do a cute pic of Mickey and Minnie that I found online. Minnie's head is too big or mickey's is too small but I still think it turned out ok and I like it. Maybe next year I will draw out a grid like Maxine does and it will turn out better. Anyway here is the pic.

New Templates

I love changing my template to match the season but I hate that my widgets always get deleted. If there if someone out there who knows how to change a template without having to redo the widgets please let me know how to do it.

I am loving the snowman, I think he is cute. I am irritated because my stupid playlist isn't working and it has the cutest penguin with a cute little scarf, hopefully I can make it work.

Christmas is my favorite time of year. I love that, for the most part, people are happier and friendlier than any ofther time of year. I love the smells of cinnamon and ciders and wassail (sp). Most of all I love the snow, I am sad that there hasn't been much of it yet but I was just looking at my weather gadget on my home page and it looks like snow tomorrow, woohoo!! I need to look up cute christmas pics now for my front window painting. I will post a pic when I am done. Happy holidays!!