I started graveyard shift last night.  It is really dead but I can take my laptop with me and work on my writing.  Thank goodness, I have been having health problems again and haven’t done much more than sleep on my hours off.  I went to the eye doctor last week and he thinks I have nerve damage in my left eye.  I have hardly any peripheral left in that eye and I have been, well seeing things that aren’t there.  Everyone that knows me knows I’m a nut but I was really starting to think I was loosing it.  Apparently with optic nerve damage your nerves tell your eye or brain (I’m not sure which) that something is moving when it isn’t or that something is there that isn’t.

I managed to get my STBP entry turned in at the OKRWA Christmas party.  Not that it was an easy feat.  My new printer cartridge printed a few pages then quit.  I went to Kinkos and put the disk in the computer and printed off my 10 pages then went to print off the cover page and it was corrupted or something anyway it locked up the computer all the while my money is ticking off the card.  The girl tells me to reboot the computer which takes forever and is still taking my money.  I finally get it going and recreate the cover page to the best of my memory.  I go to make my 4 copies and they come out blue.  So I have to go stand in line so they can credit my card and I ask the lady if I have enough to make 4 copies and she says yes.  I get through 2 and the card runs out.  So I am back in line waiting to put more money on it because of course all I have is a $20 and I don’t want to put $20 more dollars on that stinking card.  I get that done and have all my copies and decide to go to the restroom before I leave.  I sit the copies on the back of the toliet.  After I wash my hands I turn to pick them up and the lights go out.  Apparently they are on a timer.  Well, I think you can guess what happened.  It startled me and I knocked my 4 copies into the toliet.  By this time I am sniffling.  Did I mention I was on my way to work and only had a shot amount of time to do all this?  I actually did start crying a little and the girls felt sorry for me and reprinted it for me. Which was nice.  I am leaving and run right into the glass door.  Why in the heck do they only unlock one of them? ugh!  I said that “F” word that I am trying to quit saying when I am frusterated so that my 2 year old nephew won’t repeat it.  A woman who was coming in the other door gave me a dirty look and I didn’t even care at this point.  I was just wondering how fast I was going to have to drive to get to work on time.  I get out to the truck and no keys.  I looked all over it and my person then back into the store.  I am sure that it took only a few minutes to locate them but it felt like ages.  But despite my experience and my wondering if it was all a sign that I should forget it, I got it turned in.  My first contest.  Actually my first submission of any kind.  I just never think my work is good enough to submit.  Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. 

I usually never make resolutions for the new year but I am going to for my writing.

1. Enter some contests

2. Submit to some agents

Doesn’t sound like that big of a deal, I know, but for miss scardy cat it is.

How does everyone feel about that large amount of snow we got dumped on us here in OK?  I had over 15 inches in my town and loved it.  Still had to go to work and listen to everyone else bitch and moan about it but I still enjoyed it.

I haven’t gotten my Christmas decorations out yet.  Last year I didn’t decorate.  No tree, no nativity scene, no decorative table cloth.  I just wasn’t in the holiday spirit.  With all the difficulties in my life this past year I think I will make a special effort to celebrate the holiday.  To celebrate what the holiday is meant to be.  A celebration of the birth of Christ, thanksgiving for the obvious things in my life like family, friends, my home, my new job and the not so obvious things like waking up each day, being able to see and hear and walk and talk, the food I have to eat and the ability to feed myself and other things that I tend to take for granted on a daily basis.  Things that if my life was going smoothly, I might have over looked.  I hope that each of you take the time this holiday season to be thankful for those things. 

I worked the last two nights at my new job and I think I am going to like it.  I wasn’t sure the first night – information overload and I made alot of mistakes, which is to be expected but I really hate that.  The people I work with are super nice.  That is a great relief after the job I just came from.  I am tired though and looking forward to my first days off which don’t come until Wednesday and Thursday. UGH!

What is going on with everyone else?  Did you have a happy holiday? 

I went to OKC to sign up for my new job.  That took forever because there was another woman there with me who kept asking stupid questions and asking the same question several times.  UGH!  I thought she was just slow until we were walking out and she was laughing about how she stretched it out because she was getting paid for it.  I of course, am not since my official starting date isn’t until tomorrow.  I wanted to strangle her. 

I took advantage of the nice weather this weekend and went to my moms.  We went to this place in my hometown that they had piled a bunch of bricks from tearing down an old building.  So I picked up the broken ones to put in these two huge holes in the alley that the city hasn’t fixed in, oh about 6 months.  And since my neighbor reminds me constantly that the only LEGAL access that I have to my house is through the alley, I thought it was time to do something about it.  I’m tired of scraping the underside of my car everytime I go somewhere.  And no I didn’t know when I bought the house that I only had alley access.  Just one of the many things I assumed when I bought it that didn’t turn out to be true.  But I have sure learned a lesson from this house buying experience.  I won’t take anyone’s word for it that the place has been termit inspected or that the roof doesn’t leak because it was only a few years old or that the gas and water lines didn’t leak, etc., etc.,  It has sure been a learning experience.  The good thing is in less than a year it will be paid for.  And if the windows aren’t air tight and the floor is cold, then those are things that I can put up with until I can put some money into it.