What happened to November?

This month has been busy, busy, busy. It seems only yesterday that I was counting down to the convention.

I had a great time in Seattle. I got to spend time scrapbooking and learning new techniques, share some laughs with Lesleigh and her family, and had a fabulous dinner at the Space Needle. I even got in a few hours of shopping at the outlet mall in Tulalip.

But,I learned something disturbing about myself that weekend............. I'm not really a Shopper anymore! I'm finding that sometime in the last 2 years, shopping has become a chore. This realization has been a shocker. It used to be that I could easily spend 8-10 hours shopping. Now, after about 3 hours, I'm tired, cranky, and not in a buying mood. But, this only applies to non-scrapbooking shopping.

Work is now busier than ever for me. My good friend and co-worker, Carolyn, has resigned. What this means is that Carolyn is now training me to cover most of her duties while the company executives figure out what they will do with her position. And this is happening while I am also starting to do some bookkeeping for a friend's small, but rapidly growing company. I had made the commitment to work with him long before I knew what was happening at my full-time job. I don't how it could be that I have more work when I was aiming for less by the new year.

So, my blog has been ignored, my laundry is piling up, I'm drinking more coffee, I keep messing up my personal schedule, and I'm tired most days. This was not supposed to happen. But, then again, a lot of things weren't supposed to happen. And, I miss my mom. I'm bracing myself for a very difficult Christmas season. Christmas was my mom's favourite holiday. It always included attending midnight mass and singing along with the church choir. I can still hear her soprano voice singing O Holy Night every year. My love of music and singing came from her. And this trait has passed on to my princess who already sings along to just about any song. I hope that mom can hear her sweet little voice.

I can't type anymore. I'll just end this post now and hopefully come back in a few days a little less weepy.