Dude - you've left me to blog all alone.

You're moving to DC today. HELLO - I wish you would get on here and write down five things you are grateful for today!

;-)

Thought I'd never say it.

But I'm grateful for Dixie.

She helps me get out of bed in the morning. She makes sure we go on walks. I see the beach more often with her around and I get out of the house more too. Thank goodness she likes to cuddle and keep me warm when Jackson is away too!

Phew.

It's been a rough week at work - I've got quite the workload right now and am putting in far more then my nine hour days and you know it is getting to me when I dream about work things too. I'm so thankful I'm heading to the chicago office next week because I need to be around my coworkers (and my wonderfully intelligent boss) to help me with some of this stuff! I know I need to be a little stronger in directing traffic with these projects too, its actually caused a problem now. Everyone has their own opinions on design and language and it can be hard to manage who to please more, ya know? This little "jolt" in the process will get worse with a conference call happening tomorrow - but - it will help in the long run. Thank goodness my boss kicks ass...

Shit.

I haven't been thankful lately.... but I really was over the holiday, just didn't get it out here.

Thanksgiving was awesome, only one thing missing - daddy-o! He worked crazy 16 hour shifts n stuff and will be happy to be here on vacation in december I'm sure. Craziness. I love to watch him eat potatoes, especially since I can't eat them like that anymore. sigh. hee hee

Thankful for family and friends and life in general.... I cried for a whole hour when mom and tracie left, I couldn't help it. I miss them, it was such a good week too.... can't wait to see them again already!

Camping!

1. Dixie was a very good girl while camping, she got scared here and there but loved to explore. I'm thankful we got the chance to do this!
2. Bahia Honda is less than forty miles away from where we live! So freaking beautiful, best beaches ever!
3. We turned off our air conditioning and have the windows open for circulation - finally!
4. Taking down the hurricane shutters means the season is over and we survived this one!
5. An extra day off (hee hee, sorry!)

Time slows down!

Well, with the time change! ha ha

1. I love having it lighter in the morning, looking forward to walking Dixie with the sun up cause I'm not a huge fan of the dark anyway!
2. I'm proud of us for all the weeding/gardening we did today! woo whooo!
3. Raul. Thank godness for doggy sunday school.
4. The weather is freaking awesome and wonderful, a bit cooler but still warm enough for shirts and shorts and oh it is just perfect. Hopefully we can turn the air conditioning off by the end of the week and save a few $$
5. The Packers winning, Jackson is so truly happy when they do and that they're kicking ass this year. ;-)

p.s. Hope Tracie feels better soon! Poor thing has the flu... miss you!

Today was fabulous!

1. Jackson made a chore chart! Oh I fell in love with him all over again. The TV wasn't on and he sat down and did it. Oh, fabulous day. I'll keep you updated on how we do with it!
2. Cake frosting not melting as bad anymore with the weather!
3. Speaking of weather, tropical storm Noel and not coming our way.... hopefully no one will feel her wrath....
4. me coming to grips with this excel worksheet. the boss is reviewing, kinda scared. once its set up though... should be good. can we please get microsoft project though? p-p-please people?
5. sleeping through the night, however, jackson said he got up three times for the dog and I seriously don't remember any of that. I told him to wake me up and I'd take her out next time because I just must have been out. I'm so tired this week though, need sleep! (Feel bad though, Jackson does too)