A New Year just around the corner

Christmas is over for another year. I must say it was a very quite one, and I did enjoy it that way. I had to work on Christmas day which wasn't too bad. By the time I got off I didn't want to talk to anybody(usually I call my relatives in the USA) I just went to bed not too long after I came in stayed up to talk to Peter for awhile and that was about it. Peter's daughter didn't show up until today. We thought she was suppose to come yesterday but her and her boyfriend went out partying in Limerick and stayed there for the night. We had put off Christmas dinner until Friday so said what the heck we'll just go ahead and fix it as planned. Which was really nice. Peter usually cooks the Christmas dinner each year with me helping with the veggies. He makes a wonderful pawn salad and homemade mushroom soup. We had pork roast for the meat and I made a apple cake for desert.

I did manage to call my mom and sister yesterday and I called my daughter today. I guess I should call my son sometimes before I go back to work. My sister and he her husband was drunk so we ended up talking for almost two hours about(who knows now) LOL My daughter was in a very talkative mood so we ended up talking about 2 hours also, it was nice just hearing their voices drunk or sober. LOL Oh my brother called me on Christmas so I didn't have to call him that is the first for him. I usually end up calling him first.

I find this year worse with missing my daughter that died. I can't believe it will be two years in March since she passed away. I am getting through this but some days or worse than others. There is not a day goes by that I don't think of her. She had a great laugh, I miss her hugs...Sometimes I think it would be wonderful if this was just a dream. One day at a time.

Merry Christmas to everyone

Santa has came to visit and left his head behind. OH MY!!!!!!!!

Happy Christmas every one. These are some of the pics I took around the the house of this years Christmas decorations. I chose to have a small tree because our living room is so small.The fireplace is always a cozy spot for those cold winter nights.

The next pics are of the work Christmas party. Some of the people I work with....

Breda, Mary and Bernadette.

A pic of the Irish coffee I was drinking. The first time I ever had it and loved it. So much that I have shopped to make my own at home. LOL We are planning on a quite Christmas at home. I have to work both Christmas Eve and Christmas. So after work I am going to relax by the fire and drink my Irish Coffee until I get comfortable numb....

Happy Christmas and New Year

Just Chilling on a Friday Night

Staying in with the fire going in the fireplace and watching T. V. with David Grey singing This years loving ,can't get no better than this. I have finally addressed some of my Christmas Cards for this year and my creeping Christmas is still creeping. To tell everyone the truth I am not enjoying this Christmas season this year. I don't know what it is I can't actually put my finger on what is wrong, but I feel like the Grinch this year. I just couldn't be bothered. I hope as time goes on I will be in a better mood. I guess it all comes down to it that I am a giving person and don't have much to give this year. I know it doesn't make any difference to people but it put me in a bind since I like to give.

I would like to reflect about the past year since the fire is lit and I feel so cozy. The jewelry business we started this year was a good idea and I think it is going to get bigger as we go along and once we get it on the web I think it will be better than we could imagine. I ended up getting a raise at my job before the first of the year as previously thought. I have filed for my Irish Citizenship. I did fail my driver test, but I have good news on that. I had to get a driver instructor to take some lesson from because I thought to get rid of some bad habits that I have learned in the past... Anyway the driving instructor was the son of one of the nurses I work with, well he is now training to be a driving tester so he will test us. His mother and me(since we both failed) LOL I will wait to sign up in order to see where he will be working as a driver tester. In Ireland you can test in any town that is on the list whether you live in that district or not. My dog that I got a year ago September is a joy to me and become a part of the family. I have become a computer game addict but we want go into that at this time. LOL I found out that I hae a tumor in my ear and am follow up on that, I find as I get older I can't do the things I use to do when I was in my thirties or forties for that matter I don't know if that is a good or bad thing. There is some things I don't want to do that I use to do. I am still grieving over the death of my daughter and will always, but am getting on with my life. I don't want to be the kind of person to let her death just ruin my entire life. I don't know if that is selfish or not, but I have seen people that just can't get pass the grieving stage and get on with their life. Of course I think of Khristy every day but I can't let it get me down. I have to go on and not give up. There is more I am sure I have done this year to reflect on but just can't think of them at this time. Since I am talking about reflections I thought the pic is appropriate me seeing a reflection of me in the mirror. Peter took the pic several years ago I think it was on his first visit to see me in 2001.

Creeping Christmas

I do this every year. I start after Thanksgiving or the first of December gradually added Christmas decorations. So we started calling it creeping Christmas. I have to rearrange things in the sitting room to make room for the decorations because our sitting room is so small we can't have my regular stuff along with Christmas decorations all in the same room at the same time. Each day I add a new Christmas item(which has been stashed in a trunk. waiting for the creeping Christmas) and take away a item I had in the room to make way for the Christmas item....Sounds very complicated???? Well sometimes have fum with this and sometimes its just a complete hassle depending on my mood. LOL So officially creeping Christmas has arrived.

We had another jewelry party at this person house Friday and it was a big hit. Still haven't made enough money on the business this Christmas season. We are going to a craft fair located in the village where I had the party Friday. That will be December 16. Our Christmas Party at work is going to on the 14 this time we are going to have dinner at a pub and music afterwards which I think will be a lot better than just having a meal in a restaurant like we did last year. So that well will be busy. Speaking of busy Peter has been trying to set up a web site for our jewelry. I couldn't begin to know what in the world he is doing. We do get together every now and then look over the front page just to see what we want on it to make it customer friendly. It will be awhile before we can add the finished web site. We are setting up to take paypal as a source of payment, I have rejoined Yahoo chat to scan the rooms to see how many Irish people actually are there. LOL Just sort of a survey. When we do get the web site up and working I will send to everyone on my email list. Right now we want to focus on the Irish market and Irish people living abroad to send their relatives that lives in Ireland presents of Jewelry and maybe expand as we go along. Another goal I have for the coming year is opening up a shop in our house. So looks like we are going to be busy next year.

Peter is now looking for a regular job, he has been working as a handyman, doing home improvements. He was a engineer before that, so that's what I mean by saying a regular job. When I moved here he had just quit the job he was doing because they had moved to another city and it would have been too long for him for him to drive. So he started into the home improvement. I used to go on jobs with him at times until I got too tired going to my job and helping him out. Which was a bummer because I really enjoyed us working together. That's the way it goes when you have to have money to pay bills. Anyway the home improvement has decreased this year as the housing industry also, so that's the reason for Peter looking for another job. He should know this Monday whether he has this job that is close by.

I sent everybody in my email list to a site that I had sign into awhile ago. A memorial site for my deceased daughter. Well it cost money to continue the site so I didn't bother doing anything to it or even sending it on, well this week I got a email that they would open up the site for me again for a month only, for free. So that's the reason for the email to everyone. Please go visit the site and light a candle it would mean a lot to me. The pic is of me in 2001 in Louisille, Kentucky. I was taking Peter to the airport for him to go back to Ireland. This is the first time I met Peter in person.