It's almost Christmas time!!!!

So I am officially getting excited about Christmas. It's been more difficult this year just because without school to help regulate when Christmas is coming, it's kind of snuck up on me this year. Until I started packing last night, it felt like it was so far off, but now that I'm packed and ready to fly out tomorrow morning it finally feels like Christmas! I'm excited to see everyone and hang out with the fat cat. Bunking with David will most likely mean little sleep, but it will feel like old times when we use to sleep together on Christmas Eve so one didn't have the advantage over the other the next morning.

I've also noticed a slight drop off in tourists lately, like over the last couple of days, which is starting to excite me greatly. That means places are easier to get in to and the lines are not nearly as long as they were back at the beginning of the month. The window displays are great to look at and everything and the city is so beautiful during this time of year, but I'm ready for more dead periods and less mess to push through on the sidewalks. Being home will be nice too. Sleeping in complete silence is going to be a challenge, and as soon as I get use to it, it will be time to leave and return to the concrete jungle.

Along with the new year will come time for assignments! I am still debating which assigments I am wanting to apply for, so I will have to make a decision soon. I am ready to start wearing regular clothes in to work and not just a tshirt and jeans and change in to the blues 6 days a week. I'm excited about dressing up for a holiday/Christmas party tomorrow night just for the fact that I get to wear nicer clothes. I'm also excited about real food, too. A friend and I walked past a restaurant last night and we saw the people eating gourmet, "real", food and it looked SO GOOD! Ahh, to get to stuff myself with real food over the next few days is going to be amazing. Then come the first of the year, I'm getting my precore!!!! I'm so excited about that one. I know it's a chunk of money and I shouldn't spend it, but in the long run it's an investment in both my health and my behind, so that's my excuse for spending all of my Christmas money as soon as I get back. As much as a new shoe collection would be to have, the elliptical machine will be better. More later - Merry Christmas!

It's official. . . I wear old lady fashions!

OK, so I finally gave in this week and ordered little old lady shoes for work. I had been wearing two different pairs of ergonomically (sp?) correct shoes to make my days as comfortable as possible. Yeah, even though they were ergonomical and all that jazz, they still hurt after 12 and 16 hour days. So, after this whole ordeal with my ingrown toe nail, which is getting better every day!, I broke down and ordered a pair of super stylish (not!) softspots navy loafers. The squishy bubble insoles are AMAZING and have made my day. My 9 hour day has been comfortable and for the most part pain free! The reason I say mostly is because I was starving this morning b/c I chose sleep thru breakfast. However, I have had the most amazing tour partner today and I love him b/c every time we tour together, we have cancelled tours!!! Yay for cancelled tours! Speaking of tours, I have one now. More later.

It's a festering puss filled monstrocity!

OK, it's really just an ingrown toenail, but it's gross. I got it taken care of tonight thank goodness, but it still is disgusting none the less. That's all. The end.