Merry Christmas!

I probably won't get to post for a little while, so I'll say Merry Christmas now. I'm so ready for this long break from work, people were really starting to irritate me. Hopefully things will be better when I get back. But now I have to hit the road...so Merry Christmas and I hope you all have a safe holiday!

Prayers needed...

Please offer up a prayer for my grandpa. He had surgery yesterday to remove a bowel obstruction. He woke up quickly, but was in a lot of pain and basically had to beg the nurses to give him more pain killers (he'd used up his allotted dosage too soon). He's 90 years old, so not necessarily in the best condition to recover from an operation. So please say a prayer for him! Thanks!

Good Times

Last Friday Kelly and I met up with a couple of my college friends and some of their friends. It was a lot of fun, for a moment it made me miss college a bit (although I never did any of that stuff in college, so it shouldn't). Seven of us ended up staying in one hotel room, and while a couple of the guys were wrestling with Kelly and I to make us stay (instead of driving an hour home), we made quite a bit of noise. The next morning we realized just how thin the walls were after we heard the neighbor sneeze. While marveling at how we hadn't gotten in trouble the night before, there was a knock at the door - the manager, who chewed us out for being so loud. When he came back later to make sure we hadn't broken anything, he kind of laughed about it but told us to be quieter next time. We all felt so bad, we were just in the moment and forgot where we were. So if any of our neighbors happen to be reading this, we deeply apologize!

After driving back home, though, I realized how much I love my life right now. After college, I was so afraid I wouldn't have such an awesome group of friends, and I figured it was all downhill from there. Now I realize that although those friends were great, we've all moved on and I've found even better friends (in a different way). There are so many people around here I care about a lot, and I don't want to go back to college. I don't want to go back to my old life. Sure, there are things I wish would happen in my life right now, but I'm enjoying the ride. I love it here and I love life! :-) Wow, that's cheesy...but true.

Zima!

It's frickin' cold here! (In case you don't know, zima means "cold" or something similar in Czech) This morning Denver reached a new record for the lowest high temperature, 3 degrees! My sister's car wouldn't start, and after we jumped it and let it run a while, the battery still wouldn't hold a charge. So we went to Wal-Mart to get a new one, and there was a huge line of people waiting to have their batteries checked out and/or replaced. It was kind of funny, the mechanic seemed so surprised that us, being silly girls and all, picked out our own battery and were going to install it ourselves...especially when there were some manly looking guys waiting in line to get theirs replaced by a mechanic. I love doing that. :-)

So since we had to do that, I missed the Holy Day Mass tonight. Tomorrow is a Holy Day of Obligation, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. I always wanted to get married on that day...I guess it won't be happening this year, lol. Luckily there's another Mass tomorrow evening. I think tonight I'm going to just cuddle up with a book and go to sleep early. It's too darn cold to do anything else!

Isn't today great?

A great day, an end to a fabulous week. Isn't life grand? :)
That's all I have...just wanted to share. :)

The First of Many

Christmas parties, that is. (And NO, I'm not calling them Holiday Parties...GRRR!!) My group from work is getting together tonight for dinner and a white elephant-type gift exchange. Most of the gifts for this party are serious, but I already know of some gag gifts. Should be pretty funny... I also bought a new skirt to wear, so people will get to see my white, bruised legs. I don't know what happened, maybe it's from the cats walking on me, but there are little bruises all over my legs. Looks pretty funny.

I'm also excited about a couple college friends that are coming to town for a wedding next weekend. Kelly and I are going to drive up to Fort Collins and hang out with them for a little bit. One of them I haven't seen in over a year, and the other I haven't seen for almost two...which was 35 pounds and several inches of hair ago! I'm so glad to still be in contact with most of my college friends, it's just sad we can't get together more often.

Ok, off to prepare for the party. Oh, and expect a major announcement around the first of the year! :-)