the best use for a desk calandar

So last week I worked some at the elections office in Lee co. Of course there wasn't much to do but I did draw and color of the desk calendar on Hollis desk. lol.

new roof mess

On the 18th and 19th Eddie, my brother-in-law, and his crew came down and put a new roof on our house. It was loud! and messy! But Erin brought the kids down for the weekend so I got to see them so that was nice. On Saturday morning we all went outside and helped pick up debre from the old roof and throw it in the dump trailer. The dump closes at 12 on Saturday so we all helped out so that they could get there before they close lol. It was kind of funny watching Ashton push the magnetic thing around picking up nails and Evan trying to help pick up a lot of shingles at once. Ansley just followed my dad, Pops, around the whole time. Which was cute, especially when he was pushing her around in a wheelbarrow like he use to do with Erin and I.

clean up

So at the beginning of the year I got into a cleaning mood. I cleaned out my closet and drawers at home and got ride of a bunch of stuff. At work I moved some things around and cleaned up some things.

I moved all the killed files roledex cards into my office.

This is all the nasty dust that had gathered up for who knows how long on the shelf that i put the roladex cards on

a ton of floppy disks that i had to destroy. it took about 2 hrs.

zumba

First I have to start off by telling how I got Zumba. My Mawmaw who is 85yrs old is a shopaholic. She loves to spend money and money is her favorite thing in the entire world. I am not exaggerating! She buys things all the time that she finds in stores, online and yes on QVC. It's always junk and then she tries to give it away to people and plays it off like she was so sweet and thoughtful to buy this for you. No, really she bought it for herself and decided she didn't want it. Anyways, Zumba was her latest purchase. Now let me explain something about her. Not only is she 85yrs old, she also has horrible arthritis in most of her joints, and she needs to have both of her knees replaced! She uses a cane to get around even though she needs to be using a walker, but she refuses to use a walker. So to sum up what I just went over my 85yr old grandmother who is stricken with arthritis and has two terrible knees bought zumba for HERSELF! Obviously she couldn't use it and so she gave it to us, and I'm using it. Hopefully it'll actually work and do me some good and I can tone some of these areas I don't like.

NEW LAPTOP!

So my laptop has been getting progressively slower and slower and a can't really store anything on it any more because it doesn't have the space even though I've cleaned it out. So I finally saved up the money to get a new one! So excited!

Girls Chistmas 2012

On December 27th we had our annual Christmas get together. I love my friends!

 

Then they came to my house and we exchanged gifts and hungout. Several of them spent the night.

Steph got what she wanted

Steph lost it

Christmas 2012

I'm so glad that Christmas is over. I hate to be a Scrooge but I really can't stand Christmas time. Trying to shop for so many people, out in all the crazyness at stores, people are rude and stupid, traveling all over the place visiting people, what do I get, are they going to like it, am I going to like what I get, etc. Thanks for buying me something you know I'm going to take back. (my mom does that every year) I really don't like any of it.

I live with my parents and work with my parents so during the holidays the last thing I want to do is spend time with them. I know that may sound terrible but I don't care that's the way it is. They should stop praying that I find someone, cause if I do then hopefully we'll move far away. And if we move far away we will never come home for Christmas. "Love you, miss you, hope you like the gifts we sent you".

I would love to go to the beach on some island, alone! That is how I would like to spend Christmas. Just mail people their presents then take off. That would be perfect.

However I'm sure none of that will ever happen. This year we went up on saturday morning, I drove cause dad was too tired and we don't let mom drive, to Gmommys house. We picked her up and took her to this family get together that one of her cousins put together. I knew maybe 4 people there. But Gmommy had a great time and that's all that matters. We get back to her house and I spend the rest of the evening working on some pictures. Sunday we loaded up the van and took Gmommy with us to my sisters house. We had a great time visiting with them and have Christmas with them. The kids loved the hockey sticks I got them. They spent a couple of hours outside playing.

seeing all our family together in a picture makes me realize we've got a pretty big family

Evan

Ansley

Ashton

Evan and Gabby

Evan

Ashton

Ansley being all cute

Gabby

Ansley

We finally left there and headed back home to Albany with Gmommy with us. Monday we were suppose to go to my aunts house in Dothan and spend the night but I told them I wasn't going. My cousins weren't there so it would have been my parents, g mommy, my aunt & uncle and me. woo hoo sounds like a lot of fun doesn't it. Well it ended up that they didn't go either because of the weather. So Monday I went and got some more dog food for my friend Brooke's dog. I'm feeding her while their out of town. I got the food and went back to her house and fed her, all in the pouring rain, by the way it's an outside dog, then went back home. Didn't do much Monday which is exactly what I wanted. Monday night I went over to my friend Brad's house and hung out with him. Tuesday we did go over to my aunt and uncles house and spent the day with them. We had a late breakfast, watched "The Expendables 2" and munched on junk food the rest of the afternoon. The Expendables 2 was great, loved it. Kind of funny how other people were watching Christmas movies and we watch that. Well we finally leave and get home around 8:30 and I went to go fed the dog again. Then my parents and I had our Christmas. It was nice. Then on Friday we drove up to Gmommys. I drove moms van with mom and Gmommy and dad drove his truck. He had to pick up a bathtub and I was going to come back home on saturday so we took two cars. Saturday we head over to a little church and had Christmas with my dads side of the family. It was nice.

our future

Ansley was staring so hard at the deserts lol she wanted some so badly

bubble wrap is awesome!

kids!

The Family

Then I drove back home and my parents spent the night at my mawmaws house. Over all it wasn't horrible but I would have been much happier sitting at home.