Do You See What I See?

This is my Christmas post!!

I love Christmas...Freakin LOVE IT!!!

The only thing is...

Since I graduated high school I haven't really gotten to enjoy one.

Every job I have had has been in restaurants & has required my immediate return to work.

I haven't gotten to enjoy the tasks of putting up a tree, decorating my house, and just being...that is until this year.

Ok...so all of you who have seen my halls decked are thinking BS...but you are missing the key word...ENJOY...

I have done it each year, but it has been just another task that I have scheduled in between shifts and/or school.

This year I got to do it with the kids...I got to enjoy sharing the meaning of each ornament...I got to enjoy Bubba telling me that EACH ornament was his favorite...and why...I got to enjoy!!!


Yesterday and today we played the Kinect & Rock Band for a combined 8 hours...pretty ridiculous hugh.

And tonight...my husband and I watched THREE STRAIGHT MOVIES TOGETHER...THREE MOVIES!!!

Just because

We had no reason to go to bed early...because there is no reason to get up early.

This is such a HUGE change from what I am used to...and I think I am loving it.


So when as I looked through and carefully packed away the above ornaments I did not see it as a task...

I saw it as:
2010 ornament Mom gave me early this year so I could enjoy it
Snowman from Colorado S&B brought me
Snowman from France S&B brought me
Snowman from Germany S&B brought me
Snowman from my first college job
Snowman Jennifer got me
a pier one must have raindeer
Mickey & Minnie from Liza with love
my '83 ornament that represented me on my Granny D's tree
trains my mother got us since my Hubby now works on them
my Joshy ornament
the ornament Bubba made me this year bc he knows I love Snowmen
a God awful ornament Trudi got for Bubba last year that I put on the VERY BACK OF MY TREE
a wedding gift cross ornament
another Jennifer Snowman

Do you see what I see?

That was a close one!!!

We have this nifty thing at work...Hot Schedules.

It is an online site that handles our scheduling.

There is even an app for it.

It sends you texts of your schedule, allows you to request off online, and allows you to swap shifts from your phone/computer.

It is great...really.

Well except this one time...

So I think I may have eluded to my heart not being in the restaurant any more...and if I haven't, that is where I am.

I got a text with my two days (I have another job & only work 2 shifts a week)...I was not surprised that these two shifts were on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day...That is kind of what happens sometimes.

I have celebrated enough New Years to prefer money...just saying.

When I confirmed my schedule on the computer I saw something that was not kosher!!!

My two shifts were not the two QA shifts that I normally work...but SERVING...

In the words of an old Guatemalan cook named Isreal...in his accent, "Oh HELL NO..."

I just don't have it in me to humor people anymore.

I love the kitchen...the folks in it...but I cannot handle the guests anymore.

I just knew I was going to go out with a Half Baked exit...and I didn't want to do that.

So I started communication early and called in a favor...

That was a close one!!!

(THANKS CHARLES & MENDEZ)