Christmas day has come and gone once again. Funny how it takes so long to get ready for one day. I spent Christmas eve with the new guy. We dined on lamb, watched Christmas shows and I convinced him to let me open a present. Gotta keep up the family tradition!

Christmas day was lovely and full of so many wonderful presents from family and friends. I spent my afternoon and evening doing some scrap-booking. I completed 4 pages and was pretty happy with my accomplishment. Tried to do some additional pages today-was thinking of doing a calendar page like last year but after many attempts was not able to find something I liked. The table is covered in papers, photos and accessories as is the floor and all the space around the table. I put a blanket over it last night to keep the kitty cats out of it and will again tonight cause I'm hoping to do some more this coming weekend and putting it all away seems like a really big chore.

The tree though is coming down tonight/tomorrow. I know it seems early but I have an itch to re-arrange the furniture and the tree is in the way of accomplishing that. I'm starting to not like the shelves I have up--they seem cluttered. Not sure how to fix that problem....

Less than 60 days until I leave for my trip to Vietnam. I am pretty excited about it.

Goodness a whole month between posts again...I am getting bad at this.

It's been quite a year and I'm happy to report it is ending on a happy note this year.

Let's do a quick recap of 2012.
The girls and I started 2012 living in Fort McMurray with no plans to move on or change our living arrangements. I paid off Big Red aka Oliver so the truck is officially mine. That was a good feeling.

In June I took a lovely road trip with my friend Kim. We traveled from Alberta to Northern British Columbia up into the Yukon and then finally into Alaska. It was a terrific trip and one I would love to repeat anytime. I can certainly understand why people enjoy Alaskan cruises so much now.

The end of that trip brought me to Red Deer for a job interview. I showed up in shorts and flip flops and incredibly enough got the job. I guess my charm out weighed the attire. LOL. They knew I was returning from a camping trip so my attire was forgiven. They should just be glad that I had time to shower before I arrived at the office. After going for almost 10 days without seeing a shower I was probably pretty ripe.

July saw the preparations to move on to a new job and another new city. My two kitties are so adaptable and I'm grateful for that. They flew to their new home in Grande Prairie and stayed with a lovely lady for a couple weeks during the transition time. I officially received the keys for our new home in mid-September and by the end of the month our belongings from PEI had arrived. The girls settled into their new surroundings and although they haven't said anything I am sure they are much happier here than in FMM. The amount of space they have is great and it is nice to see them run around and chase after each other.

I did some traveling for work in the fall, including a lovely trip to Canmore. I was happy to be able to slip in short visits with lots of friends as I traveled around Alberta. I am certainly looking forward to more travel next year as well, including my upcoming trip to Vietnam in February/March 2013. I will be traveling on my own the first week and spending the next two weeks at a Habitat build.

This fall has been busy in all areas of my life. Work has been busy but absolutely terrific and I am as much in love with my job today as I was the first week I started with them. In late October I started dating(??) a lovely guy and have been spending time with him ever since. I am taking it one day at a time and just enjoying life as it comes.

I have five days off starting on Saturday and am looking forward to a bit of an extended break. I haven't done any scrap booking since arriving in GP and am hoping to get some done during my mini-break.

I was also able to give up salt this fall and am happy to report that I am not suffering any ill side effects. LOL. I've thought about giving up my diet pepsi or sugar too...but darn it I like my pop. LOL

If I don't update before hand....

Merry Christmas everyone.