Long Day at Work

Whew, long day at the office! I was there from 5:45 am till about 7:30 pm. Some days are productive, and today was one of them. My assistant was out today after surgery on her knee on Friday, so I buckled down and tackled one of the company's bank reconciliation that was a bear. And another company's budget for 2009. I took an hour for lunch and went to Target and picked up a few things. Well, I've been using Target bags to make various purses and stuff, and they have these big red ones for Christmas with grayish on the back. OK, I know I am a nutcase, but nevertheless I asked if they'd put my stuff in those bigger bags. They had 5 boxes of crackers on sale with a 5.00 gift card, so got those and then some ink cartridges for the printer at home. Oh, and one of older daughter's prescriptions was ready. And shampoo and conditioners were on sale. The big bottles of the cheaper kind for 1.57. We go through a whole lot of shampoo and conditioner at our home. My swim son takes two showers a day and always uses conditioner...snicker. He is higher maintenance than his sisters with his showers and acne medicine and stuff. He's tried a bunch of acne medicine, some even prescription, but seems to do the best with the Proactiv stuff. For some reason son number 1 had mild acne as a teen, but sons number 2 and 3 have had more sensitive skin and much acne. The girls have had a little bit here and there, but nothing much really like their brothers. It is weird how all that acne stuff works. I think it is hereditary, but neither L nor I had it that bad. OK, now how did I get from the Target bags to acne????

Anyway, I cut up the big red and gray Target bags and am making a cute tote out of them. I have no idea why, but it is kind of fun to crochet and they go really fast. I work on my little craft projects a little bit each day and they end up being done eventually. With working I really don't have much time to work on things like that, but I like to do stuff with my hands when I'm sitting around talking to the kids. They don't mind when I'm doing that sort of thing, but don't like it when they are trying to talk to me and I'm on the computer....

Well, I found out that hubby starts the new job contract on Wednesday! That is wonderful. He's printing out some Christmas pictures that I'm sending out this year instead of a letter while I am typing this on my work laptop. I really didn't feel like doing a letter as nothing really interesting to report and I really hate those braggy type ones, anyway. So am sending out a picture of our family with individual pictures of all of us doing something from this year. I enjoy reading those letters, but a lot of times they make me either feel guilty or like a loser. I mean I love my kids and all, but they really haven't done anything too newsworthy. I really mainly enjoy seeing pictures of the people that live far away that I don't get to see very often. Of course now with FACEBOOK and stuff I have more contact with old friends and family than ever before. I really hate getting just a card with a name in it and nothing else. That is really boring, sort of just lets you know that they are still alive.

I am getting loopy now so I guess I will get off and get ready for bed. Oldest daughter is working until 11 and I hear the thunder outside. A front is supposed to come in tonight and rather windy, but not cold. I'm jealous as my sister is getting snow! Of course living about 1000 miles due north makes a difference...