So many things....

A lot of things have happened this week/weekend already. I lost an old friend of mine yesterday morning. He has been fighting leukemia and had gotten through those treatments. However, he got sick recently (possibly pneumonia) and just wasn't able to win the fight. He is just a year or two older than me, relatively newly wed, and was always full of oneryness. So, rest in peace Nate, you will be missed.

This week I lost 2 lbs so I have just another 1.8 lbs to lose before I am offically down to my pre-thanksgiving weight. I am going to work really hard on not letting this happen over Christmas. I have worked too hard to have a set back like that. I wasn't able to make it though the gym last night. I ended up crying during the workout and just went home. I thought it would be a good distraction but I ended up just embarrassing myself. I hope that people don't bug me about it on Wednesday.

Steve and I went to Eureka this weekend to go to the Madrigal dinner on Saturday night. I had a really nice time and it's amazing how little has changed since I did the dinner four years ago. I knew all but three of the songs and was even able to pick out my lines. The food wasn't as good as it used to be but it's probably just another product of the economy. I was able to see my old director so that was nice. We stayed at the Sleep Inn in Washington and it must have been pretty recently built because it was really nice. They even had a free hot breakfast in the morning. It was nice getting away with my husband for the weekend and just spending time with him. It doesn't happen very often that we get alone time. We have both been reading the last three of the Twilight books and once he caught up to where I was in the third one (he let me read before he did), we ended up finishing it and starting the fourth one by reading it to each other. I really enjoyed that. :) I didn't even really want to come home. Which brings me to my next topic and paragraph...

My husband is completely amazing. I know I have said this a lot before but it has never been so true. He is so different that anyone that I have ever been with. He doesn't fit into those sterotypes that most men do. He supports me and does everything he can to make me happy. I only hope that I do the same thing for him. Part of the reason I am not sure that I want kids is because I honestly don't want to have to share him with anyone. It may sound selfish but so what? I don't want anything to come between us as kids invariably do. It's still an option and I know we could work it out if it did but it becomes less of an option every day. I have never really felt a great calling to become a mother and I really don't like little kids (except my nephew - I love that kid no matter what). The world is already over-populated so why should I add to that? Plus I see way to many people out there that should never ever ever have children and they just keep getting pregnant. And I have to deal with their messed up kids every day. So no thanks.

Okay, enough of that. I am really looking forward to Christmas this year. So far we have 6 different Christmases to go to and I haven't heard anything from the Long's yet. So we will be plenty busy. I am taking the 23rd off so I will be off from the 23rd to the 28th. I will really be needing that break. I have been super busy at work. It's a good thing because it makes the day go faster and I feel like I am earning my keep that way. I am looking forward to being licensed so I am not so limited in the people that I can see. Iowa is so wierd with their requirements.

So that is all for today. I need to get some other stuff taken care of before I go home for lunch.