A Simple Country Mouse

I know I haven't posted in a while bloggers, but to be entirely honest, I've not been wanting to smash the Christmas spirit. Until yesterday, I was in a bit of a funk. In other words, I was stuck, and didn't know how to get out of the hole that had been dug for me. I was lost, edgy, and confused, hurting, sad, and lonely. I had no idea how to get my childlike Christmas joy back, and had lost all sense of hope. I didn't really want to post with all the doom and gloom floating around in my head. And then my sister happened. Author and I are sisters of a sort. Its the easiest way of explaining our relationship. We fight like sisters, we love like sisters, and we get each other out of their funks like sisters. And boy howdy did she pull me out of mine. By the hair of my scalp. May Abba always bless her for being able to do what no one else can. Now as you hear this story remember, she hates shopping, but clothes shopping is considered a success if no one bleeds, and shoe s...

You know the old saying "Your stress will catch up to you?" Mine finally did. And of course it was in the form of laying me flat on m back for the day yesterday. To my knowledge it was food poisoning, but I managed to break my fever and start feeling almost back to normal 5 hours after it started. It had to be the fastest set of sickness in my life. I don't get sick very often but when I do, it's no fun. Gamer stayed home from work and took care of me. Poor guy. In the whole time we have been together, both dating and married, I think he has only seen me this sick maybe twice. Like I said, it doesn't happen often. Besides getting sick, everything has been no to bad. Work, while stressful, has been beginning to get a flow to it. My director is out until the end of the month, but things seem to be going alright. I just keep right on going. Everyone is helping me out and I'm figuring out how to get stuff done. Well, all the stuff that I don't normally do, I...

You know how lights on a Christmas tree just seem to radiate Christmas cheer? Some like white lights, and other colored lights. My husband and I go back and forth on whether they should be white or colored. I love white lights because they set off the ornaments so well. Gamer likes the colored ones because they match the ornaments. It sounds silly, and to be entirely honest it is. But we do enjoy having out little debates over it. This year we compromised. Colored lights for the tree, and white for everything else. Today we are going to clean the house so we can finish decorating it for the Christmas season. I can't wait to pull out my garlands, lights, and glittery stuff. Scientist is working on the dishes right now, and I will start in on the bathroom here shortly. I want to finish my post first. Then I will vacuum, dust, rearrange, and clean out the fireplace. Then its onto the deeper cleaning. Picking up clutter, wiping down counters, cleaning out the fridge, organizing the pa...

You know that old saying "trial by fire"? I certainly got a taste of it this week. You remember I mentioned that I wound up director for the week? Well, it was quite the experience. This got more than a little crazy at work. The dinner I did last night went off without a hitch. Ok, that being no one noticed the difference. Let me give you the bad news, that way you will like the good news that much better. For starters, the meat for our servers was raw, the tilt skillet wouldn't light, and the two lower ovens wouldn't stay hot. On top of that, 6 pans of veggies burned, the meat suddenly over cooked itself, our cider kept blocking the pour spouts, and our carver was rushing to keep up with all the people, and couldn't quite do it. So we improvised. I set one of my kitchen staff to carving in the back, and others to firing up some fresh veggies. We put the raviolis on the stove instead of in the tilt skillet, and put the cider in containers that could handle the lit...

Director's daughter had her baby at 12:30 this afternoon!!! The tiny one is finally here. Director is with her new grandbaby and getting to enjoy sometime off before the holidays. While she may be in a wheelchair herself, at least she gets to spend time with the little one. Tomorrow night is our big dinner. With Director out that makes me...well...director. I'm a little nervous. Ok, I'm scared out of my mind, but I know with all my help I can wing it. The only thing I have to do, is just stay calm and carry on! We got almost all the prep work done, and look forward to hitting it hard in the morning. I have my two tables decorated, and everything ready to roll there so we should be good to go. I can't wait to see people's reaction to my tables. I hope they like them. So, Unfortunately because there is so much going on I do need to go to bed soon. I'm sitting down watching a show, and eating dinner. Then it's off to bed with me. Good night, and wish me luck!

Yeah, it's been one of those weeks. One where no matter what happens something, or in my case, nearly everything, seems to go wrong. The one week a year when you have shopping, cooking, a job, and a house to run, then add another 100 things on your to do list. When you've finished making your list, and you start on your first event, then realize your boss can not move their leg, and goes out sick. You now have to run the rest of the busiest week of the year alone, and with your boss in a wheelchair for a while. That makes my week. With five events on the list for this week, and my boss completely out for three, and in a wheelchair for the last one, things tend to get a little hectic. I went from my happy little job as kitchen minion, to kitchen director on the craziest week of our year. The one we have to run entirely. Our first event was a 70 guest count dinner which we managed to make it most of the way though. On my way over to my office, I found my boss standing in the hal...

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!! My favorite time of the year. I LOVE Christmas!!! or as the kids say these days i <3 x-mas. (I always did think text speak was stupid. You can never quite tell what someone is trying to tell you.) Anyways, today being December 1st and all, in my family that meant you got to open one present. So you can imagine what we all did today. We each got to open one present...well everyone but me that is. I got to open two! I got a teddy bear, and a very special sweatshirt. As you know I collect sweatpants, but what I failed to mention is I also have a thing for sweatshirts. I have more than a dozen by now mostly black with varying colors and fonts of writing. Today's is one from a place I call home. While I have a few homes, this one is special. It was my launch pad into life. After I left for college, I didn't have enough money to stay through the final term. I couldn't go back to where I grew up, and had no money to go anywhere else. When I called Autho...