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Monday, Dec. 29

Out the door early today for work. Had to be at a meeting at 8:30 and it takes me 2 hours to get there. My rooster alarm worked quite well! Meeting was okay, had lunch at Panera, big enough sandwich that I can eat the rest tomorrow for lunch. Going to dinner with my SIL and her kids tomorrow night. She got us all gift cards for a restaurant so we are all going together. DH is happy cause the Ravens and Eagles won! Hooray, on to the playoffs. It would be so cool of Philly could win the Super Bowl, too after my Phils winning the World Series! The city would go crazy!!! Hope things get better with the economy, my nephew is laid off, I pray it won't be for long. I really do hope that Obama is a good President! I didn't vote for him, but I want him to be successful for the sake of our country and it's citizens.

It is so hard to believe that another year is all but over! Sometimes I think about things that happened years ago and it seems like they happened weeks ago! Where does the time go? Not too much exciting going on. I am really trying to get myself organized at work. I want to be proactive and really step up to be the best I can be at my job. I want to help the company to be successful. I want to be proud of the job I do, I want people to genuinly feel that I am an asset to the company. It won't be hard work, I will just need to think ahead and stay organized.

Watch "The Dark Knight" tonight. Very good, much darker than the other recent Batman movies. It makes me sad to watch Heath Ledger, I really liked him. I know some people can't get past him playing the part in "Brokeback Mountain", but to me he will always be Gabriel in "The Patriot". So sad.

Trying to get the house really cleaned up and keep it that way. I am tired of being embarrassed that someone will stop over unannounced and see my cluttered mess! No time like the present, think I will go organize something!

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