Ruh Roh Shaggy!

Ya know, I am generally of a cheerful nature. I am also very happy and grateful for my new schedule and how sweet and accommodating my super nice boss has been helping me with my personal life since he is much like my adopted dad and has been since I lost my own dad. All the nice stuff out of the way, I FREAKING HATE OUR NEW COMPUTER SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, I am not allowed to grouse at work, but this thing really stinks. Since I am one of the more computer literate people in my office, I can't even imagine how some others feel, but if I were able to chuck the whole damn thing out the window, I would feel like all my Christmas's came at once. This incredible new system is a "Pinch of the Proverbial", has nothing to do with what we do and it utterly sucks. Now, since they told me not to enter orders, I am sitting on about 33 orders that I will be here until 7pm trying to figure out how the hell to enter them with all the stupid security blocks our resident paranoid put into place. Ok, not my usual happy post, but you will notice I am not talking about my beloved Nicky, or my fabulous husband or my super sweet mommy but just griping about work.

So Long Santa, Hello New Life!

Another Christmas come...and gone. Although, I must say this was a really fun one for me. As a family, we decided to cast off the evil bonds of committed capitalism and secular consumerism and embrace the joys of kith and kin and cuddle and bond with our loved ones...i.e.-everyone was too pressed for time, too broke to shop and didn't have any room to store new stuff anyways!



Strangely enough, it was really fun and man, what a load off the mind, the wallet and the timetable! My mother in law, and mother, of course cicumvented the system and popped up with "Not really Christmas presents" for Nicky and myself. My girl George brought over a very nice Luge cocktail dispenser to quickly hurry lovely frozen cocktails directly to party goer's mouths. Nothing says Christmas like shooters! Nick-nak received, from Santa of course, a rather large jeep thingy called a Gator.



It is possible that Mark was more excited by the Gator than Nicky, but come spring Nicky will think all his Christmas's came at once! He does enjoy it though, the next day at nap time he grabbed his blankey and pillow and piled up in the truck bed and had a nap on the porch.



We also had enough food around to bribe Pivo into letting us make him look like an idiot!



On a sad note (sorry, but sad things happen even in the midst of happiness) we lost our Tigger. Tigger had a run in with a truck and was too badly injured to save. Mark and I were both with him when he left us and with many tears we thanked him for being our dog and living his life with us. Pivo is still a bit depressed and Nicky has asked a few times where his Tigger is. Although we didn't have him for very long, he has left a hole in our family that we won't soon forget.






On a much happier note, Barbara and Stan finally got back from China


and Nicky Beans got to go spend a week in Mississippi with Babcia and Dziadek being spoiled absolutely rotten! He went to a bunch of parties at MSU and came home with a new haircut, new clothes, new toys, new games.....Thanks Barbara!!







And once Nicky made it back home he apparently (judging by his expression) had the best moment of his young life thus far when he asked for AND RECEIVED!!!!!!!!!!!! a sucker at bed time.



So, forging on to 2009
I AM GOING TO A THREE DAY WEEK!
My Nick-nak and I (and Daddy when he is home) get to spend a lot more time together this year which I am incredibly grateful for. Nicky quickly termed it "fun stuff days" when I told him about it. Probably because I told him I would spend more time with him and we would go do fun stuff. It was a rousing success, we went to the library for a few hours and had Nicky's first hibachi lunch. Now THAT was funny! He loved it and made friend's with everyone in the joint and gave the chef a standing (on his chair no less) ovation. Then we dropped in for a few things at WalMart and I guess Nicky and Elaine spent a lot of time there because we we pulled into the parking lot he was more excited than if we had showed up at Santa's workshop! I think this is really going to be very cool and I am so fortunate to be able to spend this time with my little man before he becomes a big man, all thanks to my wonderful husband who has agreed to take on more responsibility in a difficult financial time. Thanks baby, we love and appreciate you!!!!