Ulysses S. Grant

I am SO excited about Christmas!
I can't really put my finger on what exactly makes this year so exciting for me.

One of my favorite Christmas break times was a couple years ago when I was just getting into sewing. It included going to Hancock Fabrics in Warner Robins, spending all afternoon sewing with Mum, checking the fire every so often, hugging the cuddly kittens, drinking hot tea, and then wearing my creation to the Christmas cantata.
GOOD TIMES.

Another one of my favorite Christmas break times was last year when Mike drove up for a couple days. Among other things, he gave me a 3-dimensional picture frame with pictures of us and our memorable times. And then when he had to leave, he was like, "You'll have your phone on you, right?" And I was like, "Yeah?"
So about 15 minutes down the road, he calls and tells me to look behind the pictures in the frame.
Behind each one he had so cleverly hidden an index card, and on each card he wrote about the time in each picture and basically the story of how we came to be us! It was complete with inside jokes (which made me do this insane laugh-cry thing when I read it), and it was just so awesome.
GOOD TIMES.

Christmas is always awesome.

Today I had to give a pep talk to one of the classes for which I am the teaching assistant.

Oh, yes. Because public speaking is my forte.

It went well, though. I just felt like I couldn't really relate to the students because I haven't taken project management before.
The funny part was that I actually enrolled in the graduate section of PM in the spring as one of my electives. After the first day, I decided the class was going to be way too involved and hard, and so I called my advisor to switch me over to beautiful economics.
And so now I T.A. for the class I was too scared to take.

That's a true story. Served with a delicious side of irony.

I've started acting like an auditor.
And it's weird.
I've started double-checking and documenting everything.
I pretty much sign and date every piece of paper I touch.
I wear blazers now...

(well, I guess I was kind of doing that before, too)

It's proved to be very useful so far, but sometimes I hate when I do it because I feel I'm being someone else.
It's the whole manager-auditor conflict. Agency theory.
Except I'm the same person, so I'm not even independent.
You guys have no idea what I'm talking about.
Sometimes I annoy myself with all this auditor stuff.
Now is one of those times.

And while we're being annoying, let's have a vanity moment.
This is a moment where we write a list of stuff we REALLY like about ourselves that we would normally keep to ourselves, but we're so impressed with ourselves that we just have to write about it.
Ready?
OK!

~Le Vanity Moment~
1. My legs look awesome.
2. Sometimes I give myself goosebumps when I sing.
3. I'm really organized!
3. My hair is SO PRETTY.

Ok.
We're done.

Everybody dance now,
TWS