Last night we finally got through the Christmas cards...kind of. Keegan wanted to sign some of them so we pulled some off to the side for him to sign. And of course then we didn't get it done tonight because we had a whole bunch of other stuff to do like: mail the rest of the Christmas cards, buy stamps, mail off yet another UPS package containing a signed patent witnessed by my husband, get a bottle of wine for a hostess gift, and pop by the library so that I could pick up a book I have been wanting to read that has a fairly trashy cover on it of an almost naked man holding a really big sword...ever wonder how they design these covers?
Anyway, Keegan won't get a chance to sign them tomorrow night either because the schedule is just as crazy. Tomorrow night Kee has his Christmas program at daycare and then immediately after that we have to trek down to Afton for a party at my manager's house. All of that should be lots of fun, it is just a lot to pack in to the evening.
So, what else is going on? Well Lyle and I are still at our new jobs. So those are going pretty well. I realized as I was driving home today in horrible traffic, that despite the awful commute that varies between 35 minutes and 60 minutes depending on how many traffic accidents I pass on the way home, I am actually really enjoying my job. There have been a couple late nights, but no long trips anywhere and I enjoy what I am working on.
The funny thing was how foreign it has felt to drive home feeling happy about work and how weird it has been to wake up and think "Oh, I can't wait to get to work I have so many cool things to do today." I guess I hadn't realized how bad my last job had become. But even though this new job is busier, it doesn't seem to be as taxing because I am enjoying the people and the interesting work so much. So that has been awesome and makes me grateful and happy that I am able to work over at 3M. Now if we could just move 3M center to Blaine I would be perfectly happy :-)
My last job still creates some turmoil. I had filed a number of provisional patent applications before I left and now they are being filed as full patents and going into foreign filings; so there are lots of little overnighted packets for me to sign. Lyle has to be my witness and then we have to drive over to the UPS store to send them off. I don't mind some of this since it my responsibility as an inventor to support this. But we got three of them this week...on separate nights and it has started to get a bit wearing....
Lyle has been taking the bus down to his job and that has been working well for him. I am a little jealous that he gets 40 minutes of reading time on the way to and from work. He's been reading nearly as many books as I have because I haven't had as much time to read and he has had a lot more. The good thing is he has been writing some guest reviews for my blog; so that takes some pressure off me as far as providing content goes...BTW I have over 1000 followers now! How cool is that :-) Really makes all the work worth it most of the days!
Keegan had his first session of hockey last Sunday and is still doing swimming as well. He is skating so much better than last year and is a lot taller. He's been growing like crazy and eating like crazy; the amount of food that kid can put away amazes me! He had a bout of pink-eye starting Sunday, so I stayed home with him on Monday. (I get a whole week of paid time off just to use for family sick time...totally awesome..my personal sick time is separate form this). It was nice to spend a whole day with him and we had a pretty good time.
Keegan is taking off to Florida with my parents on Monday. Lyle and I are looking forward to eating poorly, staying up late, and playing video games while he is gone. I am flying out to Florida Thursday to spend a few days with everyone...Lyle will be holding down the fort in MN.
We have finally started planning vacations for next year. We are going to try to do a snowmobiling trip with some friends in January and then in February we are taking a week long Western Caribbean cruise with my parents that we are all super excited about.
Anyway, that's my rambling update. Here's some pictures to make the post more visually appealing ;-)
What Keegan does in his spare time...
Putting up the tree!
Keegan took this picture of me! He is getting pretty good with the camera :-)
Keegan told Santa exactly what he wanted...
Hope that everyone has Happy Holidays!
