No Time for Blogging, Dr. Jones!

I never got around to blogging about our Thanksgiving in Santa Cruz. We spent a wonderful week with J's family and I stuffed myself on delicious food and desserts. It was great to catch up with friends and share a holiday that I have yet to spend with his family. However, the details will have to wait until another time. Today is an unbelievably busy Friday that will only continue to get more hectic.

We leave for Florida to visit my parents tomorrow morning at 4:30am (so we can take the Max to the airport). Once we reach Florida, we will celebrate an early Christmas with my mom, dad and sister in Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA. There we will also stuff ourselves silly on delicious food and desserts. In another stroke of brilliance, I have yet to pack my things. In fact, I haven't even thought about packing my things. There really isn't any reason other than the thought of taking my clothes out of our suitcase, refolding and then putting them right back in has been physically painful. Ok, I exaggerate -- it's mostly because lately I have honed my procrastination skills in the absence of a real job. Now that I've left the packing to the last minute, the task will literally be physically painful. The whole right side of my body feels like it's been steamrolled from my little bike mishap yesterday. I groan when I sit and can't really lift my arm past my waist.

Oh and the reason this week was sucked into a black hole? Both of my contracting jobs decided they wanted to start on the same day, STAT! This week has engulfed me with mounds of paperwork, multiple security forms and background checks, as well as planning and scheduling with two different companies. I have a meeting this afternoon at 3pm, so this morning has been preparing (or rather refreshing my memory) to talk about stuff I knew really well 3 months ago. I'm not complaining. It's really exciting, but also poorly timed. I had more free time than any human being should be allowed all through September, October and November. December, however, is already jammed with travel.

J is also starting up a new job (just part time) with a company here in Portland. Even though he's only working a small amount of hours, they've been very welcoming and included him in the office holiday celebrations. I'm happy that we have a holiday party to attend this year! It's a pretty exciting time for us both. Things that we hoped would happen right after we moved are finally starting to materialize.