Now it's time to say goodbye....

Ok we will just be saying goodbye to 2008 and trading it in for a shiny 2009. Wow the years continue to click by, we get older, heavier, probably more jaded but socially things don't really change. 2008 has been a crazy year, we have seen gas at an all time high. The unemployment rate is so high that we may see unemployment come to an end. We have seen a high rate in foreclosures due to bad loans. I wonder if the divorce and suicide rates have also gone up? We have witnessed an election few older people thought they would ever see. Obama will be sworn into office sometime in late January. We had one of the highest turn out of voters this year, maybe because of the president elect or maybe because of prop 8. Prop 8 created a stir in California defining marriage strictly between a man and women. This pitted a large majority of the state against a few large churches. Whether its an unconstitutional law will be determined in late 2009. Wow 2008 went out with a bang.
Personally not much has changed, still single, what else is new. More activity in the church. My grandfather has cancer again, we as a family will fight for remission again. My dads sick somethings wrong with his heart but he is too dam stubborn to have the surgery. My family welcomed a new baby, it seems to have brought us closer. My brother continues to date multiple girls, they are flavors of the week and not girlfriends. He tells me that's what being 24 is all about. Days continue to pass...I'm glad 2008 is coming to an end.

Happy Holiday's

My friends and family,
Merry Christmas Eve, I would like to take this time to wish all of you a happy holiday and Merry Christmas. You are each truly special to me. I am greatful and honored to have you all in my life. I hope you enjoy the holiday with your families and friends.
May peace and blessings be with you and yours,
Sarah

Merry Christmas Eve!!!

Here are a few of my favorite things about the Christmas season...

1. The movie Love Actually, I can and do watch it year around even if its on TV. Tis the season for telling people that you love them.
2. Grandma's cornbread dressing a lot like stuffing but goes nowhere near the silly bird.
3. My whole family getting together in a really small house, we seemed to have out grown it years ago but we continue to fill it with love and lots of laughter.
4. My favorite Christmas gift ever goes to a tie, a Cabbage Patch kid I got when I was 5 and a 35mm camera. My mom waited in line for hours and paid an ungodly amount for it. The camera I got from an ex-boyfriend right before the brake up. Yes I still have both.
5. Best memory wow do I have a lot of those... Spending Christmas with my whole family every year. The house stayed the same but the family seemed to get way bigger. My cousin Denver playing the Grinch, and waltzing us around the room while my grandfather played the piano or guitar.
6. Best tradition. My dad always buys me a hallmark ornament every year from the time I was born. That's a lot of ornaments that doesn't include to 3 ornament swaps I've been to that gave me 90 hand made ornaments. I have boxes of those silly things. I love the way a tree looks with rustic ornaments.
7. I really don't like getting gifts I would much rather give them. Isn't that what Christmas is all about.
8.My favorite Christmas song is also a tie, "Joy to the World" and "Silent Night" especial when played by someone in my family. They are all musical it skipped me completely. Oh well, I'm crafty and they aren't nenner nenner nenner!!!!
9. My most favorite tradition is driving around looking at all the crazy lights. Oh and you can't forget the local parade of lights, love it.

So I told you mine, now what are your favorite things?

Priceless!!!!!!

One set of perfectly normal looking stairs...
One crazy cat who likes to drag crap (towels, slippery rugs and other things to the bottom of the stairs)....
One clumsy Sarah....
Two left feet attached to a very clumsy Sarah....
Falling to the ground after slipping on a towel and slamming my knee on the hard ground...
PRICELESS!!!!

Okay maybe not priceless but it did require a cortizone shot and an x-ray...oh and a phone call to a supervisor...maybe now its priceless!!!!!

Wow it's been awhile....

...and somethings change and others do not.
A baby can change a family, make some of us closer and unite against the evil front. And then at times we find that we are truly weak, stubborn and unwilling to change for any one...even their kids. We find that we are not superhero's and can and do get sick.
The holidays are here and this has created a lot of discord. I guess it has a lot to do with an email that was sent in regards to no overtime during the holidays which prevents no time off. So all of us that requested time off at the beginning of the year...yes January 1st was DENIED!!!! Wow this sucks. I understand we should be grateful that we have a job in this economy but really...oh well. I guess I just have to see my family some other time maybe next Christmas.
The kids attitudes and behaviors still suck...yes they really do. We are trying to re-wire 15 plus years of poor behavior in a short amount of time. These kids lack self esteem, self control and boundaries. They feel the need to make others feel bad because they feel worse themselves. They have been battered, abused and beaten by others thus doing it to others is the only option. And yes the holidays make it one hundred times worse!!!
I still hate games, I really hate guys who play games. I can't seem to find a guy who won't play games. It seems the guys I meet say one thing and do another. I met a nice guy who seemed very nice, humble, wanted all the same thing, said all the right things but then what...I have to do all the work. I don't think so. I should give up dating...maybe a guy who is perfect for me will just fall out of the sky and that will give me the fairytale...story to follow!