Christmas Time

Christmas Tree with presents
Originally uploaded by likeamemoryitfalls.

Happy Boxing Day everyone! I hope that you are all having a pleasant holiday season. My tale of holiday joy starts a week or two before Christmas. It all began with my Christmas bonus from work, which was a good thing. It was quite a big larger than I was expecting. Then there was my work Christmas party, where Zenon and I dressed up and looked all sexy, and where I won $1000. Then I won $20. My week was going pretty well. Then I found out that my schedule over Christmas had me off for 5 days, working for 2 days, and then off for 4 days. Then I got my safety incentive bonus at work, which was a $300 Walmart gift certificate. Zenon has already decided how we are spending it. Christmas time is a good time at my job. I also got a watch and some chocolates from work.

Christmas here has been quiet but nice. Zenon and I were both spoiled by our families. I'm wearing a new sweater right now. Christmas Day was a quiet day. We went out to Church in the morning, and then drove around town looking for a payphone, since Zenon wanted to get a hold of John and neither of us had brought our phones to church. We discovered that this town has no pay phones. The guy in the hotel where we eventually asked to use the phone said that it was because there were too many drug deals happening on the pay phones, so most places just got rid of them. There were too many sketchy people hanging around them. This is a unique place that we live in.

Once we got a hold of John, we went for coffee and I finally met the infamous Muffin Ladies. They were nice, and I was almost able to forget that Muffin Lady 2 tried to break me and Zenon up. The rest of Christmas Day was spent napping and watching movies and things in our pjs (or at least, I was in my pjs - my very cute new pjs with the frogs on them). Today I think we are making a fancy dinner.

Anyway, I wanted to keep this brief. There are more Christmas pictures on Flickr, if you're interested. Now I am off to have some breakfast in the form of Quaker Oat Squares.

Just an update

Just to let everyone know, we have moved into the new place. There are still boxes and messes everywhere, but things are coming along. You can see the floor again, now.

We still like the new place. The garage has been handy for Zenon's business, and I am liking the full sized kitchen and bathrooms, and all of the storage that we have now. I am starting to feel like a real adult, with real grown up things. We actually own furniture of the non-inflatable variety now, which is pretty cool.

The actual move was awful, as all moves are. Actually, it went pretty well, besides the casualty of one of my plants (Purply, 2005-2006 RIP) and one late night packing and lugging and cleaning (the late night may have contributed to the loss of Purply). We have been putting things away bit by bit, and the place is starting to come together and feel lived in.

The best part of the new place? I'm able to use my birthday tea set. I have been drinking up a storm (of loose leaf tea). This place is big enough too that when all the boxes are gone, I will be able to have tea parties. I don't really have anyone to invite, but the option is there, anyway.

Also, Kingdom Hearts is unpacked and a very fun game.

You know you live in Fort McMurray when...

...The morning weather report calls for a high of -17 degrees, and you think to yourself, "Oh, good, it's going to be warm today for a change."