Hello!

Well, it's the end of yet another year! I'd like to know where this year went. Time just flys by way to quickly these days. There's just know time to really sit back and enjoy time, because it slips away so easily.

Christmas was great! This is first Holiday Season in a long time that I actually enjoyed. Not working retail anymore has really calmed me down and has made me feel a lot more relaxed. Stephen has even said he noticed how much more happier I am now and that makes him happy. He's so sweet!!

What did I get for Christmas? Well, it was all about pink this year! LOTS of Dallas Cowboy stuff!! Yippee!! Some jewlery, clothes, CDs, a gift card, a couple of nicknacks, and a few other things. Stephen got DVDs, some Darth Vader mermorabilia, wolf statues, and a couple of sweaters, amoung other things.

Stephen & I went to see My Aunt Mary on Christmas Eve. She seems to be doing ok. She's still having a hard time with not having her mom (my granny) around anymore. It was REALLY weird this year without granny. You always think that your grandparents are going to be around forever and life unfortuantly, does not work out that way.

Tonight The family is going to Lonestar for dinner and then to the movies to see King Kong. I'm not interested in the movie, but what can you do.

I plan on enjoying my time off. The house needs to be cleaned now that Christmas is over. So, while Stephen is at work, I'll be cleaning. Other than that, there's not much else going on. Just vedge out and what the 3rd season of Golden Girls on DVD. I love them, they are just too funny!!

Well, I have to get my butt in gear and change into what I am going to be wearing tonight. Not to mention to my hair and make up. That seems to take forever since I don't have to rush.

So, on that note.....take care and hope you have a safe and Happy New Year!!

Remember, Jesus loves YOU!!

~ Carla ~

December 23rd, 2005

Hi there!!!

Well, this week certainly few right on by!! I'm enjoying my day off, today. I got some cleaning done. All I really have to do now is vacume and dust. I did manage to sleep in a little since it is my day off. Afterall, what would be the point of having off, if I didn't sleep in?

Later this afternoon I have to wrap presents for my Aunt Mary and my mom. We're going down to see my aunt tomorrow and my mom will be here Sunday night for dinner.

Stephen is leaving work at 3 this afternoon, so I'm hoping to get everything done by the time he gets home. I have a couple of candles burning the in kitchen and dinning room, so it smells like Christmas right now! I love these candles, they burn a long time, so they last a long time. I've had them for a year now and they aren't even half way down. Off course, I only burn them when I am home by myself. Espcially after I am finished with all the cleaning. I think they take away from the spell of the cleaning products. I'd rather smell the candles then those cleaning products any day. LOL!

Well, I had a talk with my friend last night. I feel a little better. I guess it was just a misunderstanding, so he has to start explaining things instead of just avoiding the questions that I ask him. I told him that by doing that it did make me feel like he doesn't want to be my friend anymore. And, I understand that he's in the middle of moving and all, but that's no reason to push certain friends away. He was a little frustrated because he thought that I getting angry with him for no reason. I told him that I wasn't really angry just disappointed in his behavior and the way he was treating me. But, all he kept saying is that I was angry. I told him that he will know when I am anygry and to just drop it. Needless to say, that I was in a much better mood after our conversation.

I guess I should stop rambling and get back to my cleaning eventhough I only have to dust and vaccume. Take care and I hope that everyone has a very Merry Christmas that is filled with Jesus' love!!

Remember, Jesus loves YOU!!

~ Carla ~

December 19th, 2005

Well, it's another cold day here in NJ. I can't wait for the warmer weather again. And, what's even worse is that we are not going to have a white Christmas! I'm so dissapointed. Oh well......maybe next year. One can hope!!

Things went well at work today. Just like they do every day for me. Kept VERY busy. A little more busy than usual for a Monday, but it made the day go by faster. I even had time to get a head start on my mail for tomorrow. I just have to look for a couple of files and that's it. Then I can spend the rest of the day working on my bulk bill. YEAH!!! I'm always finding things for myself to do. See, I'm the type of person that has to keep busy or I go out of my mind with bordom.

I want to keep a day ahead anyway since I have off on Friday. The less I have to worry about on Tuesday when I go back to work, the better.

Well, that's really all that's been going on. I still have to wrap a few gifts and write out Christmas cards for the people at work. So, that could be my project for tonight.

Have a good night!!!

Remember, Jesus loves YOU!!

~ Carla ~

December 18th, 2005

Yippeee!!.......

......I finally got all 363 of my poem pages uploaded this morning! It took me just under 1 hour to get them on my site. It's about 10:30 now and Stephen is still sleeping. I use to be able to sleep in like that. Maybe on my vacation I can do that a couple of times. Would be nice, although I really don't want to waste my days off and not get anything accomplished, you know?

Not much else is going on today. I have to wrap a few Christmas gifts and write out cards for the people at work. The cards will take me the longest to get done.

I also have to finished separating the bulk bill that I have to do for work. I plan on getting done Wednesday or Thursday.

Stephen's parents will be coming over tonight for pizza. I'm getting so sick of pizza, I can't take it anymore! I might want to get something else for a change. I could really go for a Chicken Cheesesteak. Yummy!! I love them! I'll have to call his mom later and ask her to order it since they are the ones who usually goes to pick up the pizza.

A friend from work will be calling me sometime today to see how I am doing. I called her after I got into that little tibit I was telling you about in my last post. She knows where I am coming from. So, it's nice to have someone to talk to who understands where you are coming from. Maybe she can help me come up with some words on how to tell this guy that I'm getting uncomfortable being friends with him now. Sometimes, I know what I want to say, but then it come out totally different then I wanted it to and then everything gets twisted and taken completly opposite of what I was saying in the first place. I know in my heart that I am doing the right thing. I just can't allow people to continue to take advantage of me like they use to. So, please say little prayers that everything will go smoothly for me and that I won't chicken out or let this guy try to squeeze his way out of this. I have my mind made up anyway, so I just have to stick with it.

Well, that's enough of that. I'm going to get going and see if I can get back to sleep for a while longer.

Remember, Jesus loves YOU!!

Have a very blessed day!!!

~ Carla ~

December 17th, 2005

What a night last night. I kind of stood up for myself to my "friend" that I use to go out with every other Saturday. You think you know somebody. Well, he's going to have a rude awakening coming in a couple of days or so. I just have to get my thoughts in order. He basically doesn't want to hang out with me anymore. I don't understand why. He can go out and hang out with his other friends, just not me. I'm just so angry at him that he's treating me like he's only my friend when he needs me to something for him, like give him a wake up call in the morning so he can go out and play golf. Well, that has ended and now it's like he wants nothing to do with me. He just lost his job a month ago, so I can understand to a point that he doesn't want to spend money if he doesn't have to, but he doesn't have to pay for me, I can but my own dinner. But, he doesn't have a problem with going down to Atlantic City to play poker and going out twice a week to a friend's house for dinner and then out to dinner like last night with someone else. I know both of those people since I use to work with them from my last job. I tried asking him about it last night and he completely ignored me. My problem is this......don't treat me like I am in high school. I'm going to be 28 a week from tomorrow and it's about time that I get some back bone and tell this jerk that I no longer wish to be associated with someone who only wants to be my friend when he wants to be and when it's convient for him and just as long as no one that he knows knows that him and I are friends. So, that's that. I'm kicking myself for thinking that this guy was my friend. I should have known better. But, you live and learn. So, like I was just saying I'm going to get my thoughts in order and in a couple of days call him and let him no that I no longer wish to continue a one sided friendship.

Anyways, enough of that. I'm just thankful that I have a hubby that loves me no matter what and always wants to hang out with me. He's such a great hubby. The best a woman can ask for. Tomorrow will mark 7 years since we met. What a Christmas gift!!! The man of my dreams!!! Yeah, there's been some rough patches, but what relationship doesn't? We always manage to pull through no matter what, too!

I forgot......I FINALLY got my adoptions up and running! I still have one or two pages that I have to get set up, but other than that, they are all added!

I accidently deleted my poems pages when I deleted my old site to make room for the new. So, I have to get them uploaded when I have time to sit and just concentrate on that. Probably not until I have off next Friday and that first week in January. After that......no more updating the look for a while. Stephen is always teasing me on how many times I have changed my site over the years. We were just laughing about it this morning!

Well, I should get off of here. I have a bulk bill that I have to get organized for work. Stephen and his mom are at the movies, so I want to get as much of that done as possible.

Have a great weekend!!!!!

Remember, Jesus loves YOU!!

~ Carla ~

December 15th, 2005

Good evening, blooger pals!

What cold, rainy, yucky weather we are having here in NJ tonight! It's so depresing! I'd rather have snow!

I can't believe Christmas is only just over a week away! Where did the time go? We got our Christmas shopping done last night.

I have some time off coming! I'm off next Friday (the 23rd) to make a 4 day weekend. The office is closed on the 26th since Christmas is on a Sunday this year. Then, I have off the first week in Jan. I'm taking the 3rd-6th off. The office is already closed on the 2nd since the 1st is also on a Sunday. So, I'm taking 4 days and making it into a 9 day vacation, which includes the weekends before and after that week. It's so nice to have a normal job where you can do things like that and not have to worry about anything.

Well, tonight will make for a short post. I have lots to do tomorrow since it's the end of the week. So, right after The Apprentice....it's off to bed.

Have a good night!

Remember, Jesus loves YOU!!

~ Carla ~

December 13th, 2005

HOWDY!!!

I hope that all is doing well today! Things are great on this end. I'm at the office now as I am typing this waiting for lunch to arrive. The entire office is being treated to lunch by the people we use as our precert for medial. They were suppose to have everything ready by 12. It's 12:22 now and there's still no food!! ARG! I'm so hungry I could eat a horse at this point!

Anyways, not much going on today. We have to go to the store tonight so we can have food for the week. I guess that would help! LOL!

Like I said before....there's nothing but reruns on tonight, so I might sit at the computer and fix the adoptions that aren't showing up and fix the broken links. I might use a different set up, I don't know yet. It's kind of boring the way it is right now. But, I don't have to take care of that tonight. I can always do that over the weekend while Stephen and his mom are at the movies.

Since I'm still all caught up, I have to start putting notes in the system for my 2 months worth of closed files. So, I can start that once I get back to my desk with my lunch. It really shouldn't take me too long to get that done. Hopefully by the middle of next week or so.

Well, let me get going so I can tie up some loose ends before lunch is ready. Have a good afternoon!

Remember, Jesus loves YOU!!

~ Carla ~

December 12th, 2005

Finished! I FINALLY finished with uploading all of my cuties! Yippee!! Now all I have to do is go to the site and make sure that all of the links work and to make sure that all of the images are showing up! I can finally feel a sense of accomplishment! LOL! It seemed like forever to get them all uploaded! But, it only took just about a week or a little longer.

Today was another wonderfully productive day at work. That's what I'm so grateful for. I can actually get up in the morning looking forward to going to work and then at the end of the day, feeling like I actually accomplished something. Never felt that way in my previous job. It's really so amazing how God turned that negative firing from my previous job into a blessing that I never dreamed would ever come true. See what happpens when you have a little patience and go through a little trial here and there.....it all pays off in the long run! I've always believe that and I always will!

This will have to be a short post tonight as I'm still not feeling 100%. I'm probably going to get the link up for my adoptions hooked up maybe tomorrow or Wednesday. I'll have to see. Tomorrow night is a busy night for us as that's the night we do our grocery shopping. However, Commander In Cheif is a repeat tomorrow, so maybe I can hop on here tomorrow night sometime.

Sweet dreams!

Remember, Jesus Loves YOU!

~ Carla ~

December 11th, 2005

Happy SONday!

What a day yesterday!! I did end up going with Stephen and his parents down to Delaware. Eventhough I wasn't feeing well. We stopped at the cemetary, then Best Buy. We had to drive through Willimgton to get where we were going and we saw the new AAA Mid-Atlantic building! This is where headquarters is now located. They were in Philly. It looks like a very nice building. Stephen and I didn't go down to the open house they had to take a tour, so we don't know what the building looks like on the inside.

Anyway, on the way home we decided that we were going to Lonestar for dinner! I love that place! I really started to feel bad then. I even got sick to my stomach. That wasn't pleasent. I was able to eat some of my dinner, but not all of it. So, I just brought it home with me to have for lunch today. I even got my desert to go. Key Lime Pie! Yummy!!!

I say we got home around 7:30pm or shortly thereafter. I went to bed and slept straight through until just after 11 pm. I felt a little better when I woke up, but not that much better. We cleaned up Snowball's cage and let him run around for a little while. I got back to bed around 1am and slept all through the night. I got up around 8 or 8:30 to jump on here and upload more files. I'm getting there. It's almost all done. I did that for about an hour and a half. After breakfast, I'll hop on here again and do some more uploading. I just wish Comcast would make it easier and allow you to upload more than one file at a time! It's so time consuming, it's not even funny anymore! But, what can you do.

I took a little break from the uploading to write out our Christmas cards. I usually have them out by now, but time just got away from me this year.

Well, breakfast is just about ready. Have a great day!

Remember, Jesus Loves YOU!

~ Carla ~

December 10th, 2005

Good mornin'!

Well, as you can see.....my new site is finally up and running except for my poems and my adoption collection. They are the only things left for me to upload. I have 363 poem pages to upload and as you probably remember, even more adopted cuties. So, I'm on track for having everything to be done by the end of next week. All I can say is thank God! This is such a pain staking process. But, it's so worth it in the end..

Everything else is going great. We have the house all decorated for the holidays! YEAH!! I love having the house decorated both inside and out. Plus, the snow on the ground!!! I just wish that the weathermen would get it right for a change. They say that we are going to get all of this snow and it turns out.....we don't even get half of what they said we were going to get. Oh well. I really don't want it to snow a lot since that would mean a chance that they would close the office. And, I really don't want to sit home and do nothing all day. They did open the office 2 hours late yesterday because the mix of snow and ice came in around 6 am. But, once we got there it was ok. Got everything done that needed to be done and I got a head start on my mail for Monday. I can't find the file for two pieces of mail. And, I couldn't look them up because our system was shut down just before 3pm so they can move our IT department to their new location.

Well, let me get back to getting some more files uploaded. Stephen & I had plans to go to Delawarw with his parents to put flowers on my MIL's parents grave. Then, do a little shopping down there since Delaware doesn't have any sales tax. I'm going to talk to Stephen, because I really don't feel like going out in this cold weather. I'd rather get some more files uploaded anyway. And, with Stephen gone for the afternoon, I could get a lot done. We'll just have to wait and see, I guess.

Have a great weekend, everyone! Stay warm!

Remember, Jesus Loves YOU!

~ Carla ~

December 9th, 2005

Well.......long time no see! Sorry it's been awhile since I've been in here. I've been trying to figure out what on earth to do with this site. And......I found the most perfect solution! I was visiting with Pam at This Side of Heaven Graphics and saw that she had a webset up. Well, I just fell in love with it! I've been wanting to have something with a smaller frame and could never figure out how to do it. But, now thanx to Pam.....I have exactly what I was looking for!! You should stop by her site for a visit! You should see her link below.

I don't know about you......but there's been some strange weather going on over here in NJ. It's been really warm, then really cold and vise versa. This month we even had a few days where it's reached 70 degrees!! And, a few day, like Monday and yesterday, we got snow!! It' so pretty, though! I do love the snow. Especially around this time of year. I just think the snow makes it feel more like Christmas..

I'm going to be setting up my new adoptions site in the next week or so. I have so many new cuties that I am just dying to share with you! As, you can also see, I decided to take a few things off of my site to make some room. I really wasn't feeling the blinkies anymore. I just it's just that I'm not into them anymore? I don't know what it is. I also took off the pics of the wolves. I don't think that Stephen even looked at them. I'm not sure. I also decided to have a seperate little page setup for my journal archives. It just makes it a lot easier to look for something that way.

Remember, Jesus Loves YOU!

~ Carla ~