A new Challange

Hello!

First off I want to thank everyone for wishing me happy birthday. It was really amazing. My phone (which is connected to my facebook) was going off all day it was awesome! So thank you guys.

Second. I had a slight bombshell dropped on me today when I got to work. wanna hear it? well you don't have a choice I'm going to tell you. The children's aunt is moving on the 30th. This is the woman who trades off days with me. This is the woman who has made it possible for me to work only 4 days a week and have time off when I needed it. She is moving to Washington state. What this means for me is that as of the 3rd of January I will be working 5 days a week. No if's and's or but's. A full week. And you all know the hours I work. That would be 10 hours a day minimum. Most times closer to 12. This means between 50 and 60 hours a week. I am trying to deal with this calmly. I will be rational about it. I will not freak out. What I am going to do is ask for them to be sure of coming home 2 days a week at 5pm. This would mean a 10 hour day at least 2 days a week. On these 2 days I will either do yoga or work out with Jono. I will also have to cook enough for a whole week every weekend. As of late I have been cooking enough for a few days at most. I will need to get on top of my diet more and make things I can pack for lunches. I will also start planing now for my spa day in April. The job they are both on right now is going to keep them in work till sometime in March. After that it's all up in the air. They might even be moving up north. So I am going to take the work where I can get it. I may go crazy. I may cry at night. But I will work and make money and hopefully if everything goes as I hope I can go back to school full time soon. Maybe even next fall.

I have spent all day letting this sink in. I know full well they will drive me up the walls. But I hope to have enough structure at home to combat the craziness of work. But before all that is Christmas.

Do you all realize just how soon Christmas is? Have you done your shopping? Have you made your gifts? I haven't. I didn't realize till yesterday that it's less then 2 weeks away. Thankfully I have tomorrow off as well as only working Monday and Tuesday next week. So I will have this weekend and most of next week to make everything. And I do mean Everything. When I started to flip out about it Jono reminded me that I did the exact same thing last year and managed to get everything done in time. So I should be able to do it this time. But I think I am doing more gifts this year... it doesn't matter! I will get it done. I just might go a little crazy. Or crazy-er.

hugs&kisses & Christmas wishes
mce