today

Thanksgiving Day was a nice day.
Daughter and I wore our new cooking aprons and prepared most of the meal together.Boyfriend and sons teased us about the aprons which made it even more fun wearing them. Daughter was in a playful mood,as was I. It was a good spending the time with her.
 I think the traditional Thanksgiving day meal is gross. But I like preparing it for my family, especially with daughter at my side.....and I love being with my family. So yeah.....it was a really nice day.
Daughter now knows how to make mashed potatoes AND turkey.

Late Thanksgiving night I DID enjoy a cold turkey sandwich and pumpkin pie. Mr. Bojangles loved the turkey. We-Ping doesn't eat people food.

Daughter tried out for and made the coed, competition, cheer leading squad. it will mean practicing her regular 3 hour/ day practices, plus an additional 3 hours/day of practice for the coed squad.......not to mention 2 games/week that she will have to cheer................she knows she needs to focus on academics. All this cheering won't leave much time. Last night she told me she has decided to quit the competition squad. I think she made a good decision.......maybe a little late, but at least it's done.

Work is going okay I guess.
Chas inspires me to do better......to be the nurse I used to be. He always goes that extra mile for his patients and patients families. Always. I used to...........and then I burned out..............hopefully he never will...............so I've been trying to do better.......trying to go that extra mile.....to give a little more. At first it felt like you feel when you pretend to like someone that you really don't like. But then you really do start liking them. It kinda felt like that.......I really didn't want to do what I was doing. I was faking it..........but at some point it started to feel good some of the time.......and so I just keep doing it.....
I told Chas last night how he has inspired me. I didn't tell so that I'd get something in return. I just wanted him to know, you know? Life's short. I try to say what I think/feel. I don't want it all in a knot inside of me.......and if it's something nice........then why not say it?
So last night I told him how he has inspired me to do better.
He got really serious and told me how when he started work at our facility he thought he knew it all. After all, he came from the hospital setting, and had worked there most of his career. He said he figured he knew more than me............he went on to say how he was surprised when he found he was learning from me things he didn't know.......he more or less said he had to take his self off his high horse. Because he wants to learn. His sincerity was touching............I thought it was sweet of him to share with me. He didn't have to........I'm happy though that he did.

Today I payed bills. I also wrote the banker handling the loan on my condo. I think all the contracts(the condo offer and the locked in interest rate) end December 6th or maybe the 11th. I'm obviously not going to sell this place before then........
My house isn't so bad.
It's old, and needs TLC.......I can hang in there until the economy recovers.........and in the mean time I'll continue to do repairs/updates to this place...........and then maybe someday I'll sell it and live on a houseboat or in a barn.............we'll see.

I haven't wrapped any gifts, or put up my tree yet.
Hopefully I'll achieve those things these next three off days. I'm behind schedule and that makes me feel stressed.