William turned 6 on 11/23. We had a REALLY low key birthday for him. Picked up pizzas and made a rice krispy with peanut m & m "cake" per Chris's request, cuz his birthday was the 22nd. I thought I had candles, but didn't, so Will got an ancient taper candle stuck in the "cake." We got him a new bike, which he really needed.

Thanksgiving was at my Mom's house, where she cooked up a wonderful feast, as usual. I had to work for the first time in my life that day, and it was totally dead--hardly any calls. Very boring. We got a really late start to Thanksgiving and home late.

I am in my new office!! I'd take a picture, but it's kinda messy....it has a door, it's out of the way, it's ok if I want to be my sloppy (but organized!) self!! Yay!
I completed my second day being at home for my reservation agent job today. I was having lots of issues with internet and phone, and then I found out my equipment was not updated. It was a VERY long, painful, frustrating process to get to the priveleged place of having customers tell me first, that I am speaking too quietly, or that they can't hear me, or that they want me to PLEASE not charge that fee, or that I am being rude when I repeat myself loudly so they can truly hear me over my constantly breaking up phone line. I had nice customers all day, until the last one...and it took me a long time to get him out of my head. Big deal, he said I was rude when I wasn't and it was the phone line's fault, right? Nobody was murdered, no random acts of violence. I wish I could get over these dang meanities a LOT quicker. I had a hard time with that when I was a teller, too. Too stinkin sensitive. Still working at Key Bank in evenings, though the hours are reducing greatly because of changing technology. I may be there another 2 months. Baby steps to severance, baby steps to severance....

I worked like a dog this past week, for Key in evening, from like 7-ish PM to 11 or 12 ish AM and then at ACS doing reservations from 3:30 to 9:30 AM. Not fun. Not ready to be doing the reservation work at home either in terms of having my office ready...or my confidence. Next week, I'll take vacation at Key and go do reservations in office at ACS for the evening shift.

Today, since it was so beautiful, as a family, after church, we went to a few places to have some fun in the sun. The first one was Lake Sammammish, which was kinda boring, but I got some good pictures. I wanted to go somewhere else, so we checked out Gas Works Park in Seattle, which we all loved. So glad we got to have a great, refreshing time--safe, cheap, and great pics, to boot!

I'll put more photos on Facebook.

I have been a scrooge with news. But there is some. I have started a new job, as an airline reservation agent with Virgin America. They are newly installed at SeaTac airport. I will be doing 3 weeks of full time training onsite, and then, wonder of wonders, be working at home 30 hours a week! Yay!! Today was orientation.
Me so tired. Nine hours of sleep the last 2 days. My mantra, tatooed on my brain, is "...a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come on you like a bandit, and scarcity like an armed man." Proverbs something: something.
I will be putting all the kids in public school next week. It's hard work to get 4 people signed up and outfitted! Not for sissies! Open houses are tomorrow.
I tried to get a video of William up here recently, but blogger kept not working for me. It was funny, though. He was singing "Deep and Wide" over and over and over and over, and he was completely covered and encased in a blanket. SO CUTE. Another precious thing that I like to think about was how, after I told him that I come in his room and kiss him goodnight when he's asleep, after I get home from work, he excitedly said to Zoe, "Zoe, Mom comes into my room and kisses me at night!!!"

Anybody heard of Meetups.com? You can find local groups in your area that meet--many interests to choose from. I actually looked at one that was for shy and anxious folks. It had about 40 members. Guess how many people showed up at the last 8 events? Three.

Seen on a bumper sticker today:

It's hard to be humble when you're Scottish!