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My holiday was very quiet. This was the first Christmas that I did not even see my son. Why you ask? Well, because he volunteered to baby sit his friend’s 9 year old brother so that she could go to Tennessee and spend the holidays with her father. The mother involved is a single parent who works as a nurse at night. He is being paid to do this for a week because her daughter, my son’s friend, usually is there to watch her brother. I thought this was quite noble of him. He’s now coming over for the entire weekend and we will go shopping. He has no idea what he wants for Christmas, so I decided to wait and allow him to pick out what he wanted.

Rick and I stayed home the majority of the time, but we did stop in and see Randy, Chrissy and our nephew Matthew. He’s getting big. I expect that he’ll be crawling soon. He can now hold his own bottle and likes to pull hair. He’s also growing his own hair finally.

What did I get for Christmas? I got a Nintendo DS Lite. I asked for it. I was rather interested in the Brain Age game. And I love it. I have a few other games now too and I’m having fun with it. I got it early and have been playing with it for about two weeks now. Rick got a Tassimo coffee system and we both love it. It makes the best coffee ever. I could totally forgo starbucks so long as I have this coffee at home. Rick also got his gift early. It’s hard to hide things from one another when we both live together. We didn’t go to crazy this year. In years past we’ve both spent more money.

With the mortgage industry basically tanking, Rick’s not been working as many hours as he has in the past. We’re not hurting but it is alarming to some degree. He was told last week that his boss may have him start something new. He’d be driving and making deliveries of some type and he would be away from home up to two weeks at a clip. This is alarming too. While I can see it doing us good because absence makes the heart grow fonder and because he’d be making twice as much for those two weeks and then doing his normal job the other two weeks…..meaning money wise it is a nice increase. Almost like having double the income for two weeks. We don’t know what type of deliveries and what kind of truck yet.

It’s not all set in stone and we don’t have all the details as of yet. I know two things for sure though. If he does it: 1. I will miss him like crazy and 2. I will never get any sleep and 3. He won’t be around to take care of me. I cannot calm down and relax and go to sleep when he is not home. I just toss and turn. When we broke up a few years ago I was big time addicted to sleeping pills just to get some sleep and I always ended up falling asleep during the day. The big thing that was different then is that I had two jobs and was even more tired than I would be now.

However I also imagine that my house will stay cleaner longer. My dog will be walked far less. Our garbage will be forgotten for weeks at a clip and I’ll be living off of TV dinners for weeks at a clip. However on the flip side, there will be no dirty socks under my coffee table, no cigarette pack wrappers lying about and no dirty coffee cups piled in the sink.

Rick and I basically work the same hours and yet we’ve never worked the same hours really. We’ve almost always had alternating schedules of some type. Recently he’s been at home more than not and I’ve gotten used to coming home to dinner in the oven and someone to hug. I’m sure I will miss him madly. And since he’s the worst telephone talker I’ve ever met I’m sure we’ll have frequent yet brief conversations. Rick is rather quiet and even more so over the telephone. It will be interesting if this comes to pass.

I am back at work, I am off of school until January 1st. Then on the 8th I’m doubled up in the business writing course and a Wealth and Power in America course.  Fun stuff.