I'm Baaccccck!

Whew! Thanksgiving - the new job - Mom's surgery. Somehow we've survived, but are running woefully behind on everything!

Christmas. We're scaling back in the interest of our time and sanity. We have a very ssmall real tree, and the bottle tree is lit. We may even have to replace the annual Christmas card with the dogs with a new tradition - a Christmas e-mail with pictures of the dogs!

Mom is doing quite well after her November rotator cuff surgery. She is doing physical therapy now and will be able to take off the sling for Christmas! She is VERY tired of doing things with one arm, but is glad to be back at work and in a routine - a one-armed routine, but a routine nonetheless.

LOVING the new job. I'm on a learning curve, but this one seems gentler than the one I experienced in Lexington County. Going from goverment from a non-profit was quite a shock, but government to government isn't such a drastic change. I LOVE LOVE LOVE being eight minutes from home (and other stuff, too) and have made good use of both my extra 45 minutes in the morning and the ability to actually run errands during lunch.

You'll love this. The Public Works division heads - that includes me - are cooking breakfast for the 300+ members of the Public Works staff tomorrow. FULL breakfast - eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and pancakes. I have to be there at 4:30 a.m. for my assigned duty - eggs. Even though I only cook about five things, one of which is Hamburger Helper lasagne, I think I can handle the eggs.

TRASHformations has been busy since Thanksgiving. Three special event sales and lots of Internet orders. Last sale is tomorrow, thank goodness.

Now that we're almost caught up - I DO still have to post T-giving pictures - hopefully I'll be able to post on a regular basis again!