Are the holidays over already?

I started back to school today. After a luxurious three weeks off, it was a rude awakening. I feel like I've been jolted back to reality. Monday nights I'm taking finance and Thursday nights I'm taking strategic management. This finance professor is already better than the last one. Too bad his speech patterns are already driving me crazy. On well, only 7 more weeks to go.

Wait, I'm getting ahead of myself. Talking about the future already when I really just sat down to talk about the recent past.

Christmas
This year Christmas was very low key. I have to admit I prefer Christmas like this. The family put a cap on the amount we could spend on Christmas gifts so we could give more to people who needed it more than we did. I chose to donate to an organization in my town which helps the poor with health care, food, clothing, job training, etc. My parents chose to donate to an organization that helps people all over the world. It was cool to start out Christmas morning not by opening our gifts but talking about the gifts we gave to other people. (Even though we will never directly know who we affected or how.)

Anyhow, Christmas was just a good time to be with the family. Mom really out did herself this year with Christmas dinner. It was the one place we splurged. She cooked a turkey and a ham! Mr. and Mrs. C, some good friends of the family, came to eat with us. It was so neat to catch up with them.

The Most Amazing Christmas Gift
The best Christmas gift was definitely seeing our friends, Becca and Jason, adopt their daughter only two days after Christmas. These people are some of the neatest people I've ever known and am so excited they are finally parents. I know they will make an excellent mom and dad! It's been so long since I've been around a baby, it was really special to see a new born.

Work
I worked through most of the holiday week simply because I knew it would be slow. There's no better time to work than when no one else is working! With all the peace and quiet, I caught up on a lot of things.

New Year
Kevin came to visit. We drove to Lubbock new years eve and ran in the new year at Kris's house. Nothing over the top...we ended up watching a bunch of episodes of Sex in the City. (Soooo not our experience in NYC.) We spend a lot of time with Kevin's parents, Jay and Carol. We did a ton of shopping. We watched lots of movies; including the Lord of the Rings - Return of the King. WOW, great movie.

Kevin is here one more day so I'm not going to work tomorrow. I was going to take care of a couple doctor's appointments as well as hanging out with him. Now a couple more things have come up so my day off is going to be spent super busy. Minor - I need a plumber to come since I've got toilet issues that a plunger just won't fix. Major - Tiger is limping...bad. Upon further investigation his toe is turned in the completely wrong direction. This means a very expense visit to the vet tomorrow. I have no idea what he did or how, but it's got to be fixed.

So, yeah, it already feels like the holidays are over and life's speed is picking up again. I wanted to write some resolutions, but I haven't been able to slow down and really think. Here's the beginning of a list.

Resolutions
- Live without regret. (Which means don't regret the things you do and don't do things you'll want to regret.)
- Slow down.
- Save more money.
- Visit Kevin more often.

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