Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Another Year Has Come and Gone

(For lack of photos, I'm posting some fun pics of my crazy kitties...)

There's just four days left of 2006 and I think I'm glad of that. It has been a whirlwind in more ways than one and I'm really hoping (!) that 2007 is less hectic. I graduated from Seton Hill with my MBA the Monday before Christmas (Dec. 18), so that's finally one less thing I have to worry about. Rob is back to work (from the truck accident in September), still very sore every day when he comes home, but at least he's working again. Possibly the only good thing that came from the truck accident is that he has decided to attend college and will begin the Saturday "Adult Degree Program" at Seton Hill in January. He's majoring in Human Services and will finish his bachelor's in just two years.

Robert Morris University, and therefore the Bayer Center, is closed between Christmas and New Year's, so I have a whole 11 days off. I'm having difficulty remembering how to relax...grad school gets you in the mindset of always having school work to be done gnawing in the back of your head. I still feel like I have too much to do and find myself setting overly ambitious lists and schedules for myself. I wonder if I will ever get past the guilty feeling I have when I just sit and watch TV?

I'm not really making any New Year's resolutions...I try to just make New Year's progress instead. We have agreed that we'd both like to begin eating less fast food and more healthy stuff so that we can hopefully lose a few pounds and reduce our coming candidacies for heart attack patients in our 40s. I would really like to try hard to get our credit bills reduced so that we can buy a house in the next few years. And I want to try to spend more time with my kitties, who I feel like I ignore sometimes...Xander or Boo-Kitty will drag their toys up to me and meow and it always seems like I'm in the middle of something and don't have time to play. I feel bad about that, but I went to graduate school and I go to work everyday to make their lives better too, so it hasn't all been for naught.

Happy New Year!