Thanksgiving Coming!

It is now the weekend before Thanksgiving! I love that holiday! I love the food, getting together with my family and realizing how very very blessed we are in our lives! I love the fall air, the Harvest and Hunter's moons, the beautiful weather and the fall colors.

I have been busy working and trying to get things done around the house. I made a new flower arrangement for my half bath and bought a small cabinet and painted it black. I was going to do some vinyl designs on the wall, but have decided against it because the room already looks so busy. I still want to put up a new mirror above the sink, but the one we have is ok for now. Eventually I would like to get a new vanity with a sink instead of the pedestal sink we have, but that can wait for awhile too. At least the room looks more finished now and is more useable. We have room to store t.p. and I even have a place to keep a toothbrush and toothpaste and some lipstick to use when I don't want to run back upstairs!

I reseeded the front lawn again this year. The grass is finally coming up and it looks so green and pretty. We are going to mow it for the first time today. Now I need to get some plants to put in my pots on the patio and front porch. I think I am going to find some geraniums again since they seem to do so well and last well into the spring. I trimmed all of the bushes in the backyard last week since they were so huge and overgrown. It has been such nice weather lately, that I just want to stay outside and not go to work or be inside. We went to a wedding reception last night and it was outside. It got a little cold and I forgot a sweater, so I was pretty chilled by the time we left. I really don't mind the cool evenings though because they are still sooo much warmer than anywhere else in the country. I guess you can tell if you are a true Arizonan if you get cold at 50 degrees.

Work is going ok but I wish I could find something that was more satisfying and rewarding. I finally got all of the Christmas Hallmark cards up and did it all by myself for the first time so that was a big accomplishment. It seems there is a lot of whining and complaining and backbiting at work lately and I just feel like life is too short to have that kind of attitude. Luckily, customers , for the most part, have been nice and amiable and not so crabby. That will probably change as Christmas gets closer. I get Thanksgiving day off, but have to work Christmas day and New Year's day. Walgreens stays open 365 days of the year. They give the reason that people forget things they need, especially prescriptions, and so we need to be available to help them. Personally, I think they could leave the pharmacy window open and close the rest of the store and be fine. I think it is more money driven than having anything to do with helping others! But who am I to complain! For the time being I just feel lucky to have a job at all!