crazy

it's just after 2 am and i'm up blogging. but what alot i have to write about. tonight (i think it was last night since this is now this morning) we had our company christmas party. it was a roller-coaster end to a crazy week. this week i had all the fam/vacation time drama, and then had to realize that if God allowed me to be chosen for the trip but didn't open up the other time off He must have something else in mind and i'd better make myself available for that.

i also had the drama this week of trying to extract my settlement check from my insurance (which i now have in my hot little hands) and trying not to stress out about how long it will be until i can pay the body shop guy. it's been a bit crazy.

so i go to my work party, and finally they start giving out prizes about 9 pm. i had planned to leave at 8 to go to the DHOP meeting we had tonight, but decided to stick it out through the prize drawing. they gave away gift certificates and that sort of thing, then they announced they were going to draw names for round-trip air and 3 nights hotel anywhere our company books in latin america. of course they didn't draw my name. i took a second to talk some sense into myself and decided i was not going to win anything and i should just have fun and not worry about it.

i was only half listening when they announced they were drawing for europe round-trip air and 2 nights hotel. we were laughing about how the lady who won the latin american tickets was acting like a contestant on the price is right. she was jumping up and down and waving her arms while all 120+ of us were screaming and cheering...which all had a direct link to how much free alcohol they'd given us so far. while i was still laughing about that they drew my name! so what did i do? that's right- i jumped up and down like a sissy fool and screamed and waved my arms. people were hugging me and patting me on the back like i won an olympic medal. it was over the top!

so i'm going to europe for 3 weeks late september-early october with air, railpass and some hotel paid. isn't that amazing?