It’s so very late for me tonight, not because it’s late at 10:22pm, but because it’s late because I’m still so exhausted and fighting this plague stuff that hit me a few days ago.  All I wanted to do today was rest.  Pitifully tho I had last minute things to do to get ready for the new renters to move in this week.  It means more income for me, but it also means having to rush to get things done that need done.

I tried to rest, just please, give me some rest sometime today!  Once I finally got all settled in my recliner and began to doze off, hubby came in and told me Joel and Emma were on the way here.  Apparently they needed quiet in their own world.  Dell tried to explain we are both sick, and worried about little Drew getting it, but Joel didn’t care.  Emma was not feeling well either and they just wanted a place to come and lay low.   That would describe my place.  Cozy, comfy, QUIET, and a haven away from most of the world. 

Now I’m in a panic!  I had NO food in the house, cereal being my food of choice for dinner.  Regardless of how crummy I felt I rushed to the store and got food for tonight, tomorrow, and tomorrow night. I came home, got everything on.  Poor Emma, she was now throwing up, so I ended up making her chicken/noodle soup.  I don’t know what it is about this family of ours but it seems EVERY Christmas we all get some sort of plague!  I’m just glad I don’t have what Emma has, as I did last year, this year it’s that upper respiratory thing.

Even tho I felt so crummy yesterday I did go back to Amy and Chad’s house where we all had one big party last night.  All the kids there once again, Chad’s parents joining us, we ended up getting pizzas and watching, “What Happens in Vegas.”  I was so tired tho, and felt so icky.  I couldn’t wait to get home, the 1.5 hour trip it is.  We didn’t leave till after 11:00pm, so it was once again late, late when we arrived home.

I go back to work tomorrow.  Feeling like I do it isn’t a pleasant feeling, but all the same I have to do it.  This is hard for me because all those years I ALWAYS had all of Christmas break off.  I won’t complain tho, because I keep hearing how scarce jobs are out there, AND, I’ve talked lately to MORE people who are trying to get on at the university and how hard it is to even get an interview!  I guess I need to not take my job for granted.  Still, I’d just as soon not work, okay?  I want to stay home and write………and consult.  Lately I find myself with a  million ideas running through my head about how to and what to write to complete the first book.  Is it finally clicking with me?  I think so!  After the first of the year will be the telling moment when I finally begin writing what I see.  I’ve not been doing it the way it needs to be done.  Doing it the way I see it I think will make this writing thing easier for me.  Only one week and I SHOULD be finally going for it.

Being the non-TV watcher that I normally am, I can say this Christmas I have sure watched a lot of movies!  Susie and Jason gave me, “Failure To Launch” in blueray for the new blueray player I have.  Emma and I watched that tonight.  Susie laughed when I opened it,  “I KNOW how in love you are with Matthew McConahay!”  She’d be right! *laughs*  Susie got, “The Holiday” for Christmas so we watched that the other night.  My favorite I saw the whole weekend causing me to realize so many things I need to ponder in my overly romanticized mind! We watched all three “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies,  which lost me, but it might be because I kept falling asleep. Then last night,  “What Happens In Vegas.”  I liked it but not as well as, “The Holiday.”  I guess you could say I watched a lot of chick flicks for the most part, with the exception of “Pirates,” but sometimes you have to give and take.

Not a lot of news.  It seems to be a sick house tonight, and this girl is wiped out at 10:30pm knowing tomorrow I will have to work 8 hours!  My spiritual times have been down to almost nothing having been with family so much the last week.  But God knows my heart, as I continue trying so hard to serve everyone else.  And soon, so soon 2009 will be among us.  Wow.  Where did 2008 go to?

And with that, I will go fold the last load of laundry and take this achy body of mine to bed and hope that the coughing won’t keep me awake!  How I wish I could go sit in the hot tub but I don’t think it’d be wisdom to do that on a cold winter’s night when I’m suffering the plague.  Gotta love walking in wisdom sometimes!

As the faith, love, and light lead me on.

Goodnight,

Sunshine

Goodnight Chris:  If I only really knew.  I feel so ascertain I do, but there is this mystery to you being here, still.  No matter how hard I try why can’t I make 2+2=4?  It is quite obvious it’s you for many reasons, but man, there’s also been some other numbers thrown into the equation which leads me back to, “THE MYSTERY!”  So my heart says you know it is he, just leave it alone and cherish it.  And I shall.  Because love is free…………and dreams today paint our tomorrows.  And well, you’re my muse and inspiration.  In a place I think only you and I have ever found.  Ya think?  I send you love and light.  Goodnight my friend and okay, soul mate J  Love, Sunshine

As I walked through Home Depot today a song that was playing that reminded me SO much of Soul Mate………………….sometimes songs bring people to our minds and hearts.  This song obviously did this to me today!