The Christmas lights are staying up!

You have no idea what an accomplishment it is for me to get the lights to stay up on our front porch. It is alway a monumental task, but this year it looks like it won't be. Thank you 3M.

Now I need to find the time to put up our tree. Yes, it's true, I still haven't put it up. My kids are not happy with me. Putting up the tree requires time I have not had. I tried to take a couple of days off last week to prep for Christmas and it didn't happen. You see the week before they decided to drug test everyone in my department and wound up firing some people. We've also had people quit for various reasons and we are now incredibly short staffed. They were not happy when I had to leave work yesterday to take care of a sick child, but they knew not to argue with me too.

That position I have been trying to get still hasn't happened mainly because we're to short staffed to move someone into it. Doing so would leave us short another person. Figures.

weight loss

Well I did it!!!! I have now lost 25 pounds. Yeeha! I'm not done yet, but I'm half way there.

Now I need to go put up Christmas lights. I always have trouble with this because they NEVER stay up. This year I bought 3M command hooks for lights so we'll see if we have better luck this time. I also have to watch the load on the outdoor socket because if I plug in to many lights it blows the circuit breaker and shuts down the freezer in our garage. Not a good thing to discover several hours later. Thank heavens for extension cords so I can also hook lights up to the garage plugs.