Decorating is coming along ok. Taking longer than I had hoped. I enjoy decorating, but I wanted to get it done sooner and have the house cleaned so that I could spend more time enjoying it during my long weekend. Instead I spent a good chunk of Friday cleaning, Saturday I did more cleaning and started decorating and today I'm still working at it. I got the tree up last night, put together that is. I didn't start on the lights until this morning. Two of the strings from last year didn't work for some reason. Hate it when that happens. I tried putting a spare light in to find where the problem was, but all of my spares had bigger bases and wouldn't fit. Funny how that works. I think companies do that on purpose. They all have different sizes so that you can't mix and match extras when needed. If your strand goes out and you don't have the specific spare to that set your screwed. LOL Anyhow, I got about half way down the tree and we made a run to Smiths. I got two sets of 150. You'd think that would have gotten me through the tree, but nope. My Mom always did her lights from the inside out on each branch rather than just wrapping them around the outside. When you have lights all through the branches the tree glows more and the ornaments stand out more. The whole thing sparkles when your done. I love it, but it is the biggest pain in the bum to get the lights on. I'm done now, thank goodness. My boyfriend ran back to the store for me and got two more sets of 150. Would you believe that I still have 1 branch without lights? Oh-well, that branch will be at the bottom in the back so it really doesn't matter. Now I'm working on the ornaments. I usually start with all the gold, green and red balls. Then I move on the the different ornaments. Most of my Christmas ornaments are hand-me downs from my Mom. I love them all. They are all pretty random and some are really old. I'm trying to take just as good of care as my my Mom did with them. Well, I'd better get back to work. Just wanted to take a quick break.
So we're supposed to be getting a HUGE storm today. My work told everyone to leave by 3:00 to ensure everyone had time to get home and safe before the storm hit. It's here now and it looks nasty out. The sky is black and wind is blowing like crazy. My boyfriend had to go run an errand so hopefully he'll be back soon. I hate him out driving in this craziness. You never know when someone else is going to lose control of their car and hit you. You could be as careful as you could possibly be and still get into a bad accident. It's super cold out there too. The wind feels like ice. Flights are getting canceled too. Glad I don't have any family trying to fly in for Thanksgiving. I'm sure a ton of families are being affected by that.
Our neighbors house caught on fire this afternoon. Scary to have that happen so close to home. It started from the guys car and spread to his house and then through the connecting duplex. Luckily everyone got out safely, including their pets. It spread so fast. I think it was one of the biggest black clouds of smoke I've seen coming out of a house. The duplex on the other side, which isn't attached had it's siding completely melted off. If it had just been a little bit longer it would have spread to our house. I guess who ever called it in said it was a car fire, so only one fire truck was on it's way. When they got close and saw the cloud of smoke they knew it was bigger than a car fire and they called in for another truck to come out. That's whats scary about living in duplexes, or apartments for that matter. Someone else might leave their stove on, have a faulty wire, or who knows and it can spread through your home before you know it. You don't have total control over what other people do.
I am happy to say that I felt pretty good coming into work today. Since I took care of that issue that had been eating at me for so long, I really feel much better. Usually on Sunday nights I start dreading work, but I felt quite a bit less stressed this weekend and this morning. What a great feeling. I came in today feeling like I was going to have a great day, get loads of work done, stay productive and leave at a decent time. I don't want to leave everyday drained like I usually do. We're still trying to decide if we're going to go to the gym in the morning or after work. If I can leave at a decent time, then after work wouldn't be so bad. Maybe we'll alternate and go in the mornings 2 days a week and then after work 2 days a week plus the weekends of course. I want to start taking some classes too, so maybe we'll go in and do cardio & weights on thsoe days and then I'll stop in for 1 or 2 classes a week as well. I just know that I"m going to be so sore once we get going, but I know after a couple weeks I'm going to feel a million times better. I need to go grocery shopping too and figure out what kinds of healthy foods to eat. I'm not quite sure which is going to be harder, eating healthy or making it to the gym regularly. I guess we'll see.