Day Seventy Six.

    I was pretty disappointed today when I found out that I didn't get the day after Christmas off at work. They were able to give two people the day off, they had six submissions and my name was picked fourth out of the lottery. It's super frustrating because it cuts Christmas short yet another year, but what am I going to do? I signed up for this when I decided to choose a career in the health field, but it really doesn't get any easier. After I found out about not getting the day off my mood went downhill for the rest of the day. It wasn't that busy at work today and despite the bad news, I was training someone which was nice because it felt like it went by pretty fast. I had to stop at the food store after work today to pick up dinner and I also stopped at the bank, with all of that going on I didn't get home until almost 5pm.
    I knew my boyfriend was coming over tonight but I hadn't heard a word about when he would get out, so I just went about my normal business. I wiped the bottom of my shoes off, put away the groceries, took the recycling and started another load of laundry. Right when I was getting out of the shower the doorbell rang and I got pretty nervous because I wasn't expecting anyone. Finally it dawned on me that my boyfriend had given his coworker his copy of my key to stop by and finish the sheet rocking job he had started in the fall. So when I looked out the window I wasn't surprised to see it was my boyfriend, his coworker has to come over one more day to finish so he still has my key. I managed to get the laundry folded from yesterday while we chatted and caught up on the days events. We made garlic marinated chicken caesar salad for dinner, which turned out really great and wasn't that much work. Also right before dinner my boyfriend finally got my internet working which is great news:)
    We ended up getting all of the decorations on the Christmas tree tonight so I only have the other decorating to do. I can't believe how long it has taken me to get this Christmas all set up, I usually do it in one night! I think this year I have so many other items on my mantle piece that I might have to take some of them down to accommodate all of the Christmas things. It's amazing how much you acquire over the years. Also this year I felt really bad because I was pulling out ornaments which I didn't even recognize....I just hope they were presents from last year which I didn't have much time to get to know! I am saving the finally vacuuming of the living room for tomorrow when I get out of work because I know that the final sheet rocking will leave a lot of dust in the spare room. I figure instead of doing it twice, I'll just do it all once tomorrow. I think that while I'm at it I might as well vacuum the whole house for the final time before the Christmas cocktail party.
    I'm getting very anxious about the cocktail party. I'm excited for everyone to come to my house but at the same time I'm starting to panic. I'm fearful about everything like, is my house big enough? Will I have enough food? Is the house going to look clean enough? Am I going to have enough to drink? All I really hope for is that everyone who comes has a good time. I should say a few things about my hands....they hurt:( I've just been busy getting Christmas together so I have been washing them a lot, plus where I am working lends itself to doing a lot of hand washing. I have actually been really good about putting hand cream on them when I know I will have a few minutes in between washing. It was embarrassing at work today because as I was walking around I happened to look down at my hands and they were bright red. I can only imagine what people were thinking. Sigh, alright that's it for now.