What a week.....

Life is certainly getting busier now that it's the end of the year. Work was crazy all week, but I was able to get everything done. Randy met me for lunch on Thursday and that was real nice. We haven't been able to have lunch together for quite some time. Thursday night I actually order the NFL Network just so we could watch the Packers/Cowboys game. Can you believe it's $6.99 a month and it's only one channel? I mean, for my Starz package, which includes 4 or 5 channels plus all the On Demand stuff I only pay $4.99 a month. But I think it's worth it. Come summertime when I'm missing my football I'll really put it to use!

Friday I went out with some of my friends after work. That was a lot of fun because I hadn't seen them for a few months. It was good to catch up and hang out.

Saturday Randy and I went into the City. What a perfect day it was! When we left the house it was snowing, but the snow was just blowing around and not sticking. By the time we got about 5 miles away the snow was sticking and the roads were getting slippery. I slowed down to about 45 on the e-way (hey, I've lived here all my life - I know how to drive in the damn snow!), but it seemed like the majority of the other drivers forgot it was December in Chicago and therefore continued to drive their typical 75 mph. And, inevitably, we came across a couple spin-outs on the e-way. We headed on to to Northside because we were looking for a store that Rand wanted to check out. I went the wrong direction on North Avenue, but that's ok because I remembered that there was a cool Mexican restaurant that I had eaten at last year so we stopped. It was a good thing too because by that time it was a blizzard and the roads were wretched. So we ate and then he was sweet enough to drive. We never did find the store he wanted to check out, but it was cool anyway because he had never been to that part of the City so he got to see Lincoln Park, Humboldt Park, Wicker Park, etc....so he was happy.

He and I went downtown and by that time the snow had pretty much melted and the rain was turning into sleet (we love our weather!) We went to Nordstrom's and some other stores. We went to Water Tower Place which was especially cool to me because I hadn't been there in years. It was great doing some shopping and going into some of our favorite stores and seeing things that we liked. Macy's and Banana Republic had some great outfits put together and, as usual, I wanted to buy most of what I saw in Express. But, for the most part, I kept my charge cards put away and just window shopped...and decided what I was going to buy at the after Christmas sales! We were pretty exhausted by the time we left and it was getting pretty icy out so we just went home and watched a movie. It was a fabulous day.

This morning we went to breakfast so he could get his yummy cornbeef hash omelet and then we came home and watched football. Sundays in the fall/winter were always our lazy day when we just laid around the house and watched whatever games were on. I would always fall asleep for a quarter but he was tired today so he napped. It's nice that we were able to have that today.

The next few weeks are going to be crazy busy. My birthday is Wednesday, my office Christmas party is Friday, the next Friday is another Christmas party that Rand and I are going to, that Saturday is his birthday, then comes Christmas Eve and Christmas, then he leaves for his friend's wedding the day after Christmas and back a couple days later, then comes New Years....we're going to be exhausted! But we're both in good spirits and, to be honest, I'm actually starting to feel like myself again, or a new and improved version.

Cass' health problems have disappeared, my ex has gotten off my back, work is going great and, how funny this may sound, I'm falling in love all over again with my boyfriend. It was a rough few months but I got through it!