Well, it’s about time for us to get on the road, we’re up north for the weekend, visiting his family, coming back for dinner with my parents on Christmas day, and heading out with them on the 8 hour trek to Ohio to see more of my family(and I haven’t been out there in quite some time, mostly due to college.) It’ll be the first time they all meet the man I’m going to marry.


So, I just wanted to hop on and wish you all safe and blessed Christmas Holiday Season.


We should be back on newyears too, but if I miss an update, Happy New Year too.


I may or may not be able to get access during all this holiday, so you might get a few extra little updates from the road. Have a good one.


Stacie

Wow, we sure pulled the whole day shopping, though we got a lot of neat things! Almost done completely. Whew! I love shopping for people at christmas, not much of a shopper at other times of the year.



Good luck and Merry Christmas to you all!

Goodness, I have a lot of shopping to do today. It’s a little late in the season… wish me luck.

The truth of the matter is, I really loved working for Sonic, I worked with a lot of good, talented, friendly people. I guess that’s what makes this whole thing so difficult.


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And now, we let the resume race begin!

So, I’ve been upset and frustrated all night, I’ll be clearing out my office tomorrow. I so don’t want to go in, but I should, to get everything, to clear it all out. I don’t have much in my desk, but I have a few toys on and around. I’ll take down my anime posters, and grab my books, and my box o paperwork, and say goodbye to my pretty little office.


I’m still(still? heh) looking for a job, please refer me to any help you can, I’m ready to hit this running. I’ve already applied for 9 jobs on monster.com.


So, if you’re here from my resume, hello there. You can read from this journal that I’ve always been very loyal to Sonic, and I’ve always been very positive about them. (except of course lately, when it seemed like more than me was going down the tubes, but really, who can blame me. I didn’t even write why I was upset until after I got laid off)


And, if you’re here from my resume, let me assure you that I am one excellent exciting employee. (/plug)


We went over to Mom and Dad’s tonight, for tacos and cards and homemade hot cocoa(yum! Chocolate will make any woman feel a bit better) We’ll most likely go out to some fun restaurant tomorrow night, seeing as I doubt I’m invited to the Sonic Christmas Party anymore. (Ah Sonic, what a lovely gift you gave me this year) Its too bad really, I’ve been looking forward to going since last year, I had so much fun, and members from Garbage even showed up.


Though, I predict the atmosphere will be more tomblike with a deal less merriment than last year I suppose. Goodness, you can’t expect morale to be high when you lay off 50% of your people, can you?.

So, I was laid off today, along with 50% of the company. I am angry and in tears…

Anyone know of a job for me?

So, it’s vacation time for me. It’s amazing how nice it is. I’m not really going anywhere special, aside from some family trips to eau claire and perhaps ohio, next week.


The best thing is not having to think about what I’m doing at work tommorrow. Ack, there has been so much stress at work lately. It’s supposedly ‘taken care of’, but I have no clue if that’s totally true, but… I don’t really need to think about it until the 2nd. That’s right… next year!!!


So we’ll see if I can get anything productive done this week. heh. It doesn’t matter too much, it’s vacation!

It snowed really bad yesterday, I got to work, and my supervisor had me turn around and come back home, good thing too, I got stuck halfway onto the main drag, and had to have some strangers push me out into traffic. I didn’t get a chance to thank them, too bad, because once I was sliding around out in traffic, stopping would have been a mistake. Still, I feel very blessed that people still help people around here. Note for all of you, Firebirds with semi-bald tires do not handle well on snow covered roads. It was really cold and windy, a wind-chill of -44 or something, brrrr.

This Ice-world is about as far away from the Spice world that you can think of. We watched Dune about 4 times last week. Sci-Fi.com was running their mini-series, which, though entertaining, was obviously running close to their budget. It was a bit confusing too, for me, who has never read the book, and hadn’t seen the movie for a long time(if ever completely through.) So, we rented Dune the movie on Wednesday. In my mind the movie made far more sense, had better direction, awesome casting (my goodness, Sting? Patrick Stewart?!!!) It was so good. In reference to the mini-series, I told Carlo, “I was sooo robbed.”


ahem… heh.


Anyway, Stay warm out there. We’re holed up here, with some movies and Dreamcast games from Blockbuster

I have so much vacation coming up, a half day tommorrow, a half day next friday, and then I don’t come to work and work till the 2nd!



So crazy!



Now I just have to find some things to entertain me…

So, I’ve been meaning and meaning and meaning to write, but sometimes I only feel like writing at specific times, and sometimes
those times are times where I can’t get on my computer, or need to leave to get groceries, or clean or cook ect.



And so the past keeps building up, a heavy weight of words beneath my tongue, waiting for the telling, to be told. After so many get built up
they often escape untold, when I yawn, or sigh.


What does that leave you with? Half-recollections, fragments, and silence?


I am not ignoring you, in the sense that I am not ignoring me. That is, I know I write, and that you read. And even if you never return, I know
I will, to read also. Because…I forget things. Don’t we all? Those tender emotional mountains wear to hills under the everyday travel of our thoughts and dedication to work. If I don’t write some of these things down, and read them later, my memories are like traversing a slightly bumpy road, one that is smoothed over with every second. When I look back on the half-remembered, they extend like fields of grain, flat, uninteresting, with no landmarks or milestones.


My, I’m rambling today, aren’t I.

It’s mostly because I am angry, and cannot explain to you why. It’s frustrating to be insecure about things around this time of the year.


Aside from the angry bits, that only really happened this week, I’ve been relatively happy. We(Mom, Dad, BJ, Carlo, and I) cut down a huge tree, 15 feet huge, for my parents house. We also decorated it on the Saturday after thanksgiving. We joined my family for a huge potluck type thanksgiving, with a lot of people I hadn’t seen in years. The food was great but we bemoaned the fact that we received no leftovers.



We also have a cute little artificial tree, all lit up and decorated with pretty plastic baubles, and a string of lights out on our balcony.



I’m sure there was a good deal more to say, but my mind is clouded over current events. so… yeah…


Have a good weekend.


Somehow, I must keep writing, it feels so essential.


Stacie


p.s. It’s December 1st, time to change your calenders.