Phase Two: In which our heroine doesn’t complain about her life so much

Merry Post-Christmas!  It is my second day back at work.  This is going to be a long entry, I know this because I have a lot to talk about.  Namely, Christmas and Phase Two.

Christmas was fun, ate lots of food with my family, watched movies and TV, opened presents.  I got cards from my grandparents and a big box of cute snowman things for my apartment from Uncle Bill and Aunt Margi.  And so many things for Phase Two!  My family had kind of a What Not To Wear-style intervention with me about my green coat (which I love, but I’ll admit, is dirty and not exactly office-appropriate).  So they bought me Two New Coats and a Third.  I guess you could call that three, then, but it really is more like two and a third.  The third I will probably have to wait until a little closer to spring to wear.  And the other two are one black and one brown, one wool and one puffy.  I look great in both, of course.  Anyway.  I think it’s about time to cut this paragraph.

So I got new winter coats, and my mom gave me a purse and one of her scarves and I got a new hat, more code for Please For the Love of God Don’t Wear That Walgreens Hat Anymore, Or For That Matter Your Homeless Fingertip Gloves (Dad wanted to burn the hat, actually) and plenty of other things to make my life easier and funner and less expensive.  Like a Trader Joe’s Gift Card.  And an iPod Dock.  And more! 

So I am overflowing with gifts, and overwhelmed by how much my parents love me, and extra-full because of the leftovers I took home (carrots and bacon 4 life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) (Actually, I finished them already.  Breakfasts.)

So family Christmas was good.  I also visited Wayne’s family for Christmas Eve church and dinner, and a little bit of Christmas night.  Wayne’s dad sang in the choir, and they sounded great and then some of Wayne’s family was also in town… who we visited in Charlotte once.  I don’t know if I had this blog then, though, so you might not know what I’m talking about, but suffice to say Wayne had a typically crowded/noisy family-full house this year, which was nice and Christmasy.

Wayne also got me a beautiful present for Phase Two.  It is a gold necklace (yellow gold, you know, my favorite) that is Y-shaped with tiny pearls hanging off of it and tiny diamonds.  It is hard to explain, but that isn’t going to stop me from trying.  It is like long loops with tiny pearl/diamond clusters hanging off of them.  (So much for my descriptive writing skills.)  Anyway, it is beautiful and not just objectively, but subjectively it looks good on me and suits me I think.  Definately the sparkliest present for Phase Two.

I know what you’re thinking: What is Phase Two?  I’m afraid I can’t explain, except to say that Phase One was moving to the city, changing jobs, adjusting.  And Phase Two is… when I thrive!!  You can always feel when you’re going to start thriving, just like when you can feel you are going to start internally hibernating.  It is kind of emotionally seasonal.   I am just saying that I smell spring, metaphorically, and Phase Two will probably begin in the New Year.  Wayne thinks so too.  We are going to do something on January 1 to usher in Phase Two; I am thinking something high up, like climbing something (Mountain? Maybe?  Do you need more planning to climb a mountain?) but I think Wayne is trying to think of something that will be open that day/not too tiring.  We will probably go with Wayne’s thing.

I also just want to say this:  Last year, my New Year’s Resolution was “No Mistakes Until 2008!” by which I just meant that I would start making good life decisions and do you know what?  I think it worked.  I am going to have to think of something equally catchy for next year, obviously something that rhymes and sticks with me the entire year.  I’ll keep you posted.