Being home for Christmas break is wonderful. I love being with my family and being in the same town as my high school besties and not having to worry about schoolwork. I love being back at my job and getting to see my baby sisters every day and sleeping in my own bed. However, I have been feeling a lot of this lately. A lot.
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Yesterday was Christmas and it was one of the best I've ever had. We ate breakfast, went to church, then came home and opened presents. It was so nice getting an entire day to do nothing but relax at home with my family. We played lots of Uno. I consumed my weight in cookies and fudge. I had a tea party with Kelly (she fixed me "chicken and sugar") and helped Maddie feed and clothe one of her new baby dolls ("Me love being a mommy!"). I watched A Christmas Story twice, followed by several episodes of Big Bang Theory. It was quite a successful day.
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I've been working a lot since I've been home. 40 hours last week and 45 this week. It's nice to finally be getting more than 6 hours a week at a job, but it's wearing me out. Especially since I've been scheduled to open every single day. Usually I go in at 8 a.m., other days I'm there at 7. We opened early today so I was at work by 5 this morning, which required me to get out of bed at 3:30- my bedtime on a typical night. Aeropostale is turning me into a morning person and I'm not sure how I feel about it.
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I can't believe it's almost 2012. The year I turn 22... That's such a big girl age. I had planned on going to Evansville for New Year's but I don't think that'll happen, due to work and the fact that I need to be responsible and save my money. So now I'm not sure what my plans are. Honestly though, after working so much lately, I could stay home and watch the ball drop from my couch and I'd be perfectly content.
Speaking of New Year's, I was looking through my archives earlier and found this post from last year. I still adore that quote just as much as I did one year ago and would like to reinstate those goals for this coming year.
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I've been reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett. I actually started it during finals week, which was a horrible idea because it was a huge distraction and I couldn't focus... so I just started over when I got home for break. I saw the movie with my sister when it was in theaters and even though that was breaking my "golden rule" of always reading the book before seeing the movie, I thought it was wonderful. So far the book is just as good but when it comes to reading, I'm yearning to get to this point again.
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I was trying to eat pizza rolls after work today... Those are Ringo's favorite. He stood in front of me the whole time giving me this look and I swear he wasn't blinking.
The second I turned away I felt a thump on the chair next to me and turned around to see this-
I had to laugh because it made me think of the Stalking Cat video on YouTube.
(...and by the way, I ended up giving Ringo 4 of my pizza rolls. That face is irresistable.)
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