Merry New Year

I failed at sending out Christmas cards so I’m attaching pictures of what you could have received in a Christmas card from me.

And in that card I would talk about the kindness and love of God appearing to us by Him sending His Son to us. If you want you can print this all out and put it where you would have put a Christmas card. If you store your Christmas cards in the garbage you can save some paper and just read and delete. That said this is not going to be a summary of my year because you get those all the time.

I took today off of work. I thought I was going to die last night so I didn’t sleep well. This morning I woke up feeling better but realized that I did have a pretty valid excuse to take a sick day I didn’t actually have any work to do. Today was grand, the office only called in once and I didn’t have to wear heals. Actually not having to get dressed was one of the turning points in my decision to stay home. You know, I could get used to spending my day in bed reading and talking on G-Chat.

But instead of becoming a full-time loaf I have a new plan…getting my MBA! I was keeping this plan on the down low in case I fail miserably but oh well, now you know. I took my GMAT a few weeks ago and now I have to figure out where to apply. Writing application essays is kind of a pain, especially when I am supposed to clearly define my goals. For the most part I try to never set goals but I don’t think that is what they want to hear. If I ever call upon you to write a reference letter, please don’t mention that, or anything else I write.

Christmas was good. Poetry hasn’t been really been happening much because cooking has taken over. The girls still lost but Cristina did break into the winners bracket. The overall highlight of Christmas Eve was my grandpa presenting my parents host gifts. My dad got comic books and a car waxer and my mom got a broom with a mouse cover. Like my mom needs a new broom when I bought her a steam mop. Oh it was also cool when he pulled all the boys into his room one-by-one and gave them each a cowboy hat, except Billy who got some really nice white boots. Somewhere there are some amazing photos of that event floating around.

I hope your holiday season has been going well and that it gets even better.
Love, Joy