Almost Christmas...
Well folks, it's Christmas Eve Eve! Just two more days until Santa squeezes his fat white ass down the chimney and finds the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nut house. This may be a slight reference to National Lampoon's Christmas...my favorite Christmas movie of all time!
At the age of 32 I'm more concerned with the presents that have been purchased for my parents and not what I will be receiving for Christmas. I'm pretty excited about the things that have been picked for both Mom and Dad.
Mom asks me every year what I want for Christmas, and this year the items that I could come up with for myself were a new office char and some Happy Socks. The poor cylinder in my office chair bit the dust and is now permanently in the lowest position, and I just can't force myself to spend the money on buying a new one. If I do end up taking on a sideline video production job for our CEO, I will inevitably be spending some quality time at my desk in my crappy chair...hence why I requested one for Christmas. The Happy Socks are just one of those things that I never take the time to go purchase and usually when Christmas time rolls around, I have worn holes in several pair.
This year I made the decision that I would no longer take wedding pictures except for special exceptions. Last summer through the first of January, I found myself buried in projects of editing wedding and family pictures that I had taken plus working on several computers that came my way as well. When Christmas came around, I found myself pulled in too many directions and wasn't able to enjoy my time during the holidays. This year without having as many projects, I have been able to enjoy time that I can spend at home and actually work on things that I want to do.
Each year our hospital has a door decorating contest and I have participated in this the four Christmases that I have been with the facility. The first year matched our Christmas party theme of Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree with a jukebox and records with tech-themed Christmas song titles. The second year was a "Let I.T. Snow" theme with a snowman and hand-cut snowflakes. Last year I did skimp and just did Christmas lights with different tech phrases on them. But this year...now this year I went ALL out. I built a cozy-looking, semi-3D fireplace. Lots of paper, lots of take and some Cricut cutting later I ended up with one nice looking door for our I.T. department!
Even the stockings were cut out with my Cricut with some lovely engineering.
I was quite proud of the way that the door turned out...unfortunately, we placed 4th! Oh well though, whether it was 1st or 4th, we all received the same prizes though. I'm still proud of it though!
Today I took off from work early since it was pretty slow in the office and I've been enjoying some downtime at home for once. I've been doing some cleanup and desk space recovery that's been needed. I've been in a huge cleaning streak this past week and I've tossed more junk than imaginable. It's amazing how you make yourself thing you need to keep an item, but when you're cleaning things up it's one of the first unnecessary items to go. My desk and closet are looking WAY better than they were.
I had better finish up. I've also been trying to work on a coworkers MacBook Pro that she inherited from her daughter. I'm going to see if the Erase and OS X Install process helps workout some of the issues that I was seeing with it!
At the age of 32 I'm more concerned with the presents that have been purchased for my parents and not what I will be receiving for Christmas. I'm pretty excited about the things that have been picked for both Mom and Dad.
Mom asks me every year what I want for Christmas, and this year the items that I could come up with for myself were a new office char and some Happy Socks. The poor cylinder in my office chair bit the dust and is now permanently in the lowest position, and I just can't force myself to spend the money on buying a new one. If I do end up taking on a sideline video production job for our CEO, I will inevitably be spending some quality time at my desk in my crappy chair...hence why I requested one for Christmas. The Happy Socks are just one of those things that I never take the time to go purchase and usually when Christmas time rolls around, I have worn holes in several pair.
This year I made the decision that I would no longer take wedding pictures except for special exceptions. Last summer through the first of January, I found myself buried in projects of editing wedding and family pictures that I had taken plus working on several computers that came my way as well. When Christmas came around, I found myself pulled in too many directions and wasn't able to enjoy my time during the holidays. This year without having as many projects, I have been able to enjoy time that I can spend at home and actually work on things that I want to do.
Each year our hospital has a door decorating contest and I have participated in this the four Christmases that I have been with the facility. The first year matched our Christmas party theme of Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree with a jukebox and records with tech-themed Christmas song titles. The second year was a "Let I.T. Snow" theme with a snowman and hand-cut snowflakes. Last year I did skimp and just did Christmas lights with different tech phrases on them. But this year...now this year I went ALL out. I built a cozy-looking, semi-3D fireplace. Lots of paper, lots of take and some Cricut cutting later I ended up with one nice looking door for our I.T. department!
Even the stockings were cut out with my Cricut with some lovely engineering.
I was quite proud of the way that the door turned out...unfortunately, we placed 4th! Oh well though, whether it was 1st or 4th, we all received the same prizes though. I'm still proud of it though!
Today I took off from work early since it was pretty slow in the office and I've been enjoying some downtime at home for once. I've been doing some cleanup and desk space recovery that's been needed. I've been in a huge cleaning streak this past week and I've tossed more junk than imaginable. It's amazing how you make yourself thing you need to keep an item, but when you're cleaning things up it's one of the first unnecessary items to go. My desk and closet are looking WAY better than they were.
I had better finish up. I've also been trying to work on a coworkers MacBook Pro that she inherited from her daughter. I'm going to see if the Erase and OS X Install process helps workout some of the issues that I was seeing with it!
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