Almost a year has passed...

Wow...a lot has happened in the last "almost" year! Let's see...

My sister re-married a really great guy, got pregnant (at 39) and lost the baby unfortunately.

We lost my dear mother-in-law to cancer in July 2008. This Christmas just isn't going to be the same.

My darling daughter turned 2!

My wonderful son is about to turn 8!

We became grandparents (OMG)... My 22 year old step-daughter gave birth on 11/20/08 to a beautiful baby boy, Alex. We are SO proud!

My manager of 4+ years got married, and then weeks later quit our company to "travel". Yeah, right...we found out later she actually moved to Texas and started working for another company. Would have been nice if she'd been honest with us. I mean, for goodness sake, we were all at her wedding!

My company was "taken over". Actually, we were taken into receivorship by the FDIC and minutes later, JPMorganChase bought us. I found out on December 1st that I'm one of the lucky ones...I'm going to keep my job. Unfortunately, my boss wasn't so lucky. We're really gonna miss her when she leaves in January. Also unfortunately, they're splitting my department up under two different managers. :(

We got a new car for R, and within weeks I managed to hit a deer with it and wreck the front end. Actually, the deer hit me, but he was uninsured so recovering our deductible ($500) was impossible. The deer had little/no damage, got up and sauntered away. I practically had a heart attack, then checked to make sure my babies were okay...then looked in dismay at the car.

After suffering with a toothache for 2 months, I finally went to the dentist and wound up in the chair, upside down for about 4 hours having a root canal. Fun, fun, fun! I go back for the permanent crown in January, once my new FSA kicks in for 2009.

So...all in all its been a busy year. I guess that's why I just never found the time to blog. :)

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"Old post" explanation

Just a quick comment to explain all the "Old post..." posts.

I used to have a Live Journal account. Live Journal is blocked at work. Work is really the only place I have time to get online anymore (sad, huh?). So I switched over to Blogger which is not yet blocked.

I didn't want to lose those old posts...but I didn't want to maintain an outdated journal that I didn't use anymore...so I copied them all over and backdated them so I'd have them to look back on. I wrote them during a crazy time of my life and find it interesting to see what things were like back then. Oh, who am I kidding. My life is crazy ALL THE TIME!! :)