The Gentleman

Ashleigh and I stopped at the grocery store after school. We were standing in line when a gentleman pushed his cart in line behind us. I don't use the word gentleman lightly either. After standing there for a couple min an elderly woman pushed her shopping cart behind him in line, noticing that she only had a few items (and this was the only line open) he told her to go ahead of him. She had a pleasant but shocked look on her face and asked him, "are you sure" which he replied with, "of course, you only have a few items". I haven't witnessed that in years and made me smile to think that some people still value those random acts of goodness.

Fingers crossed

I found out today that I have to work Christmas day. Funny, since it's supposed to be by volunteer only. I'm sorry but a mandatory volunteer is NOT actually volunteering at all in my book. I sent out an email to my department offering to give away my shifts. So hopefully there are some people looking to pick up some extra hours. I would love to have the whole week off so lets keep our fingers crossed!

Up & Down

Well, I'm past the one month mark for my first list, which is how long I gave myself to complete it. I didn't finish it all though. Should I look at this as a failure? I don't think so. So what if I didn't finish everything... I did get about half done and as the month wore on I realized that all of the things on the list I would like to get done but it's just really not the right time for some of them. Starting a marketing campaign the month before Christmas and with my next semester starting in January, I figured that's really something I need to put on the back burner so I don't spread myself to thin... and same goes for the website makeover. I think the list was a bit ambitious.

Today has been an odd day. Earlier this afternoon I felt on top of the world. I had a nice relaxing Sunday and was feeling good. But now, here it is midnight and I'm feeling stressed and frustrated. Over the last few hours I've come to the realization that my Children will be spending most and I mean MOST of their Christmas break at their Dad's house. Why, you ask? Because their Dad's new wife gets to be a stay at home mom while I have to work. If you couldn't tell, I'm slightly bitter about the situation. So, I will spend a few hours with my kids on Christmas day, only to take them back to their Dad's house later that night so I can get up early and go to work the next day.

As I go to bed tonight I'm going to pray for a new outlook on the situation...