my gosh, i'm finally back in front of my computer. lately, i haven't been in the mood to sit in front of a computer, so i gave myself a long break. i have to catch up on my daily reads and see how every one is doing.

well, christmas came and went. it seems like i traveled all over the rez during the christmas break. my destination point on the rez was fort defiance and kayenta, but most of the time i ended up in gallup driving around my family and buying all kinds of stuff to spoil the hell out of them. i had so much fun though, it was a much needed break!

for my gifts, i loved each and every gift i received. i got a beautiful black leather purse with a hint of the navajo pendelton design, a coin purse with the same pendelton design to match the purse, a storyteller bracelet, jewelry box, a diamond necklace, and a gift card from target. so many wonderful gifts........

i hope y'all had a wonderful christmas like i did......happy new year y'all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went to my christmas party on friday. it was different, but i can tell ya i had some FUN. Frank, the office manager, did something different this year. he decided that we would have a christmas party casino style. we had every thing! it was just like a casino, we had the slot machines and the crap tables. it was so much fun. we were given some play money and we were to win as much play money as we could, so in the end we could bid on prizes at the end of the night. i got a bit tipsy that night and even found my self at another bar after the christmas party. i will never do this again. drinking is not my thang, and i woke up with a really bad headache the next morning. anyway, i posted some of those christmas pics up if you would like to see, check out the "christmas 2003" pics under my photos section.

there are just some days when i just feel sooooo overwhelmed. today's one them days. i was on the phone practically all day. it was just non stop ringing all fucking day. i was about to throw my phone out the window. that is the worst part of my job that i absolutely hate. i hate answering the phones and i hate scheduling intake appointments. actually, scheduling appointments isn't really in my job description, i'm the back up person when the lady who supposed to do them isn't at work, and today she wasn't there. how do they expect me to do my job if i have to sit there with the receiver attached to my head for most of the day?

the worst part about taking those intake appointments is hearing what the client's presenting problems are. i tell ya, there's some fucked up people in this world and i just don't understand how some people can live with themselves when they do awful things to children. i really don't feel sorry for those parents that do these things to their own children. they shouldn't be having children in the first place. all i hafta say is that they will be judged in the end...that's all i have to say about that.

anyway, i'm sitting here at home, checking email, and listening to some music (i just can't get tired of listening to coldplay "the scientist"). there's not much going on right now, but i will soon be watching me some tv. tonight the 'simple life' is showing and that is a definite must see for me. good nite y'all.

awwww, don't my babies look cute? they can do the darndest things that will absolutely melt my heart. especially, the older cat. she can just look at me with her huge eyeballs and i can just melt. she's been with me for a little over 2 years now. if i hadn't taken her from kayenta, she would have been a rez cat, living outside, bony, eaten by dogs, wolves, coyotes, or run over by some rez truck. geez, when we got her, she was the ugliest little kitten, but as the years went by she just blossomed into a beautiful cat. she's my baby, i really can't imagine not having her around.

the little cat, zoey, has been with us for almost a year. she is the the daring one. she will do the craziest things and she always thinks she can get away it. she reminds me of a little puppy. i discovered the other day, while i was watching tv, that zoey could fetch. she has this small, dirty, stuffed panda head that she likes to carry around in her mouth. she plays with that head all the time. *cough* *cough* that's brian's cat. she sucks up to him......

i also want to thank chris for sending me the beautiful christmas card and photo...thanks bunches!!!!

i see that some peeps received their christmas cards in the mail. that is good to hear, it sure does sound like christmas is in the air.......

my dilapidated christmas tree. my cat had the time of her life knocking it over today and taking the christmas bulbs off the tree.....

gosh.......(long sigh)......(yawn).....i'm so tiiiirrrred. this week is a real burn out. the only good thing is that i have my co-worker from my other job working with me now. i've been dragging myself to work lately. my whole body is aching and i constantly have a headache. i have the one that feels like the throbbing is in the back of your eyeball.

last night i was going to post a picture of my christmas tree, but my battery in my camera died, so maybe i will do it tonight. brian and i have an aritificial tree that is about 4-6 feet high. we decided to take the tree out of storage and decorate it after thanksgiving. so far, my little cat, zoey, has just about knocked off most of the ornaments. every now and then, you will either step on one or kick one. i swear, even though you try and get after that cat, she seems to never want to listen. i know she understands me when i get mad at her cause she will look at me, meow, and then scurry away with her tail between her legs.

anyway, i just wanted to thank kathy for sending me a christmas card. i actually got it like 2 days ago. it was cool to see real handwriting instead of fonts from the computer. thanks, kathy!

gosh, i spent my weekend mostly looking for brian's gift. on saturday and sunday, i drove to best buy, fry's electronics, ultimate electronics, circuit city, and then to best buy again. i finally made my decision on buying this at best buy. what is really cool about this cd player is that you can upload images to it using your computer. i thought that was something neat that brian can play around with. it was a hard decision, i don't know anything about car stereos, and i don't know what the hell is needed to get a car stereo, so i was there at most of the stores asking a lot of questions. i was going to get this, but it didn't have a detachable face plate. it would have been cool if it had a detachable face plate because best buy was going to match ultimate electonic's price. anyway, i didn't get the sony because i knew if i were to get that, then i might as well put a sign on brian's truck that says something like, 'go ahead and steal the cd player'. it's stupid that people just break into vehicles just to steal petty little things. about a month ago some thief broke into my car, and stole my whole collection of cds that i ever owned. at first, i was mad, but then again, i thought shit, they could have the damn thing, they seem to be so fucking desperate to steal some damn cds.

somehow during my search to find brian's gift, brian and i managed to fit in some time to watch a movie. we watched the last samurai. the movie was awesome. i loved every minute of it. it was kind of neat that the movie theatre wasn't packed. the night that we went to go watch the movie, they were having the aps electric light parade on central, so i guess every one was busy watching that, because after we got out of the movie there was a whole shit load of people in line to buy tickets. that was my weekend, spent a lot of time driving, watching movies, and i even had some time to wrap a few gifts.

i had a good thanksgiving day. it was hotter than hell out here. i think we reached the low 80's here on thanksgiving day. i had to open all the windows to let in some of the breeze from outside. it got pretty hot in the apartment from the oven being on. i cooked all by myself too. brian was too busy playing his playstation game. we ate our thanksgiving feast around 3pm that day. at around 4pm i was completely stuffed!

i really can't wait until tonight. i love that show called 'OC'. i swear that show can be so addicting. it's like every week i wait in anticipation for that show. i've been watching it ever since the show first aired. i even got brian watching it with me!

i also watched that show 'the simple life'. that show is FUNNY. i can't wait to watch the other episodes. now i look forward to watching tv on tuesday and wednesday nights. tuesday the simple life shows and on wednesday OC shows....see what i have to resort to for entertainment when most of my time is spent at work!

i'm countin' the days till christmas is finally here. i can't wait to see my brother's faces when they open their christmas presents. i need to see if i can get me a ham from the honey baked ham company. I probably have to cook christmas dinner. i'm not sure what the menu will be, but there will definately be some ham.