the end is near...

so my friend/co-worker amy had a tacky christmas cube contest this month. this week we had the final judging. and after a fierce battle (involving glowing snowmen, tinsel, and a blow-up santa) i was named the tackiest. i think the blow-up santa put me over the top (thanks to radial angel) but brenda lee and a little jig on my part helped. below are a few pics of the cube. these really don't even get the full effect and i'm too lazy to take more photos. you can't see the large banner that says "feliz navidad" or the 4 ft. long stocking. oh well.












































anyway, next week i am moving to the window desk and i'm giddy with the thought of sunshine.

my christmas celebration (or drudgery depending on your perspective) begins tomorrow. we are heading to my grandparent's house tomorrow morning and will stay until sunday afternoon. then we will return to okc and go to my parent's. then home for a little personal christmas time. and we will spend christmas day at eddie's parent's house. sigh. i wasn't going to take tuesday off but i decided that it was going to be a very long weekend and i might need some recovery time. so tuesday i will sleep late and decompress after family overload.

and since i'm a planner i've already started composing a list of resolutions for the new year. they include the typical - get eating under control, make a budget, establish an exercise plan, blah, career goals, blah, blah, learn something new. and i've been thinking about how i really don't buy into that whole resolution thing because honeslty i make goals and plans all the time. and generally i post them here and promptly not follow through. you know, lose a few pounds, run a race, learn a new task. and so i was wondering - why is it that i want to do a long list for new years. and i think i figured it out. starting in late november things go crazy (for everyone, every year) - there are large meals to eat, people start bringing chocolate around more, you spend too much money on gifts and other random things, your schedule gets out of whack because of shopping, holiday parties, dinners, etc. so i think mine really aren't resolutions as much as my desire to find some normalcy in my life. to have a normal schedule, to avoid shopping establishments, to not spend money, to not see a cookie every 5 minutes, to not think it's ok to eat biscuits and gravy for dinner (yep. that was my dinner last night) - all i want for christmas is my boring, non-holiday life back.

so there.