IS MONDAY OVER YET!!! LOL

Yeah....that's exactly the way I felt when I FINALLY got home tonight at about 7:45. With Aaron out of town this weekend, and not getting back till this afternoon, it was about 2:30 before I got to work. I do believe, although I didn't ask, that we did almost, if not as much as we did over the Christmas weekend, when things were so crazy. Except...this time, I wasn't able to set it out on the porch for the postman, I had to cart it all to the postoffice, at 7:00! My car was packed full...the lady at the postoffice, couldn't believe it when she saw what I had in my car. I normally unload all the pkgs. and boxes at the back door, then go inside, with all my international mailings, but it was right at 7 when I got to the post office, and they close at 7, so I wasn't going to unload all that, if they were already locked up. So, I just grabbed the one box I had of international mailings...18 of them, and ran inside. Believe it or not, they hadn't locked the doors yet, although we joked that if they'd have know what I had, they'd would have had the doors locked, which was exactly what I was hoping when I got there....but...that wasn't the case. She got done inside with me at about 7:20, then we both went out to the car, and unloaded it, and loaded directly into the mail truck. As aggrivated as I was about having to stay that late, not to mention I was running by butt off to get there at the time I did, and was exhausted, several times on the way home, I did think to myself, ....well, at least I don't have to deal with it tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow we'll be somewhat back to normal...if that's possible. lol

I had a great weekend. I added an extra day, when I found out Thurs. night, that we weren't going to work Friday, so it was nice to have an extra day stuck in there. For the life of me now, I can't remember what i did on Friday. lol I think I went to the grocery store...unless that was Thurs. night. lol We were up VERY early Saturday morning...about 5. We went to Kansas City...actually, Shawnee Mission, Ks, to a Team National 2007 kick-off. We met our good friends, Cheri and Richard there, and enjoyed spending time with them. After the meeting, we had a nice lunch and visited, and headed home around 5. We didn't get out of as soon as we should have. When we got to the car, and Lee unlocked it..none of the electric locks would work...and it then dawned on us...we had left our lights on. The battery was deader than a doornail! Not so much as even a click, click, click, when you turned the key...just silent. We flagged down Richard who was just pulling out of the parking lot...so sure he'd have jumper cables...but he didn't. So he ran to the hotel where we had been to see if maintanance by chance had some, but...due to insurance, they can't loan them out. GIVE ME A BREAK! So...we piled into Cheri and Richard's van, and headed to wal-mart, where we were just going to buy another set of jumper cables. Richard wouldn't let Lee buy them...said he'd been meaning to by a set for the van for a looooooong time...so now he's got a set. Back to the hotel...jump the car...and say our good-byes again, and Lee and I were on the road headed back home. We got here a little after 7:30. After the early rise that morning, and about 5 hours on the road, it felt good to be home, and even better to realize that the next morning, we didn't have to get up ....till we felt like it.

We slep in...drank some coffee, then started the mess of taking down christmas decorations, which we knew was gonna be an all day affair. We got all the inside dec. down...garland, all my santa's, angels, nativities, candels...about 4 totes full. It was on into the evening before we finally finished that. We decided to make the tree a project for today. I had alot of christmas decorations I wanted to go through, we got alot of them from Lee's mom, and there were several that I knew we didn't want. so, last night, after Landon, and the kids got here to bring moriah home, we had pizza, and then I was able to just sit on the floor, and go through the rest of the ornaments, to see which ones I wanted to keep, and which ones to get rid of. I have a box, a full bag, and a wal mart bag, full of ornaments, that I'm going to drop off at Salvation Army, probably. They're closer to where I am than Goodwill...they're out on the south part of town, and I don't get that way too often.

Today, we were able to sleep in again...Lee has monday's off. We drank some coffee, and while we were drinkin' coffee, watching tv, and waking up, I set down on the floor and started taking ornaments off the tree and wrapping them. By the time I had to leave for work, we had all the ornaments off...except about 1 ft. from the top, which Lee couldn't reach without a stool. So, I left the rest of the ornaments, wooken beads, lights, and tree, for Lee to finish, while I was at work. Well..... the few ornaments are up...the beads and lights are off...and my tree...which is still standing...is topless! That's all the farther Lee got. So...how long 1/2 a tree will be sitting in my living room...I have no idea! lol It may be the end of Jan. before I ever get all my Christmas dec. up....at the rate I'm going! lol

Well, guess I'll head outta here...after writing an epic...again! lol I have a way of doing that.

Hope you all had a great Monday...as Monday's go, and hope the rest of your week, is FABULOUS!

Much love
Lev