Schools Out!
December 23, 2003
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Thankfully, school is out for the next couple of weeks, so I get a bit of a respite. Today is “Christmas Eve Eve” if you want to call it that, and things at work are rather slow. So slow in fact I brought in the laptop and have been watching Fellowship of the Ring and Akira.
It’s nice to be able to relax. I almost forgot what it was like.
This week is the Christmas Eve service at the church. Jenny gave me the order of service and it seems pretty straightforward. Thankfully, it shouldn’t have me doing too much in PowerPoint, just making sure some of the hymns and songs display on the screen. Last year I spent quite a bit of time putting together a special Christmas PowerPoint that worked some Mannheim Steamroller in. Getting the timing down perfectly was the trickiest part.
Christmas Day we will be home with Dad. He is going to come in and have breakfast with us (after opening our gifts of course.) Then, after that is out of the way we will be heading to the Great White North to spend the rest of the day with Cheryl’s family. The day after Christmas, commonly known as Boxing Day in Canada. We will be traveling even further to spend time with the rest of her family. This will be the first time she has seen some family members in six years. It will be the first time I have met most of them. That’s a strange bit of pressure to be under, especially since Cheryl and I have been together so long.
It will be nice to take Emma as well. There will be many firsts before the end of the week is out. I will try and catch as many photos as I can, then post them here.
Man, I’m such a geek.
SSX 3 has been consuming what little free time I have left. It’s one of the deepest games I have played in awhile. The gameplay is like GTA: Vice City, only without the hookers, killing, and carjacking. (Which is always good.) For those of you out of the know, it is an extreme sports game where you basically snowboard all over the place, shredding and really performing insane stunts and tricks. From what I’ve read in the reviews, you can snowboard straight down the mountain from the summit to the base once you’ve completed many of the challenges and unlocked all three peaks. I have only thus far managed to unlock peak 2 (peak 1 is given to you at the start) and have been steadily working my way up to peak 3.
To quote Martha, “It’s a good thing.”
Work
Work has been going well. I’m still looking to move on though. I touched base with Jeremy the other day to see if he had any openings, or any coming up. “Nothing yet – soon” was the word. I sure hope so. I feel like I’m jumping right into a concrete ceiling around here.
Cheryl says I am ambitious, and that sometimes she wishes she had half my ambition to move up.
The only reason I want to keep moving up is to provide for my family. If it weren’t for that, I would be pretty happy to stay where I am. Where I am though doesn’t meet all the needs that we need met.
I am ambitious, but it is for different reasons. I’m not a career oriented person although my actions might state otherwise.
My main goal is to provide for my family. That’s not such a bad thing. I think I am keeping a semi-decent balance between work and family. Cheryl may tend to feel otherwise.
I don’t have much choice though. Given our current situation, I am the one that has to be completing school and working to keep things afloat. I’m not doing anything different than anyone else.
Oh well.
More photos of Emma soon. I promise.
