Before the madness..

Hello all, this will be the last sane piece from me...my home and all other parts of my life will no longer belong to me after I leave work today! Quite frankly I think it started yesterday...

So Monday I arrived at work to get a few things done before heading to wrapping booth...no phone no internet...plow truck had taken all the wires down to the building. NOW you can not just call Verizon and ask them to put them back, your phone and internet people have to come here see that there are wires down and call verizon and tell them, That takes three days by the time each call is made! That was just a wee bit on the frustrating side!

Tuesday night was the first Bay School/Sedgwick basket ball game of the season, always a true rivalry. We do not have nearly the team they have this year and although Tyler was having a great game we were behind by 14 in the 4th then all of a sudden he caught us up and it was a two pointer. We lost by two but Ty scored 37 points, 16/21 from the foul line. It was amazing!

Wednesday was Carolines flight into Portland, what was supposed to be flurries eventually developed into a coastal storm so once again, I was driving in snow and darkness, I have been doing that alot lately. She put on a new cd I had and sang and we just got into a groove and moved along. Made it! Probably not the best weather to have driven it but it was good to get her home. Thursday ended up being a snow day for Ty and he had his buddies over and they took over the house...the beginning of the end of my control!!!

Today, Friday Alex arrives, and well, the kids will all settle into vacation routine, and then family will arrive and it will be utter chaos. NOthing is wrapped, and my list is growing not shrinking, I still do not have the final count for Christmas dinner, and I am not even sure I have the final menu! So the house is clean..right now, and I know whats for dinner tonight and after that....its flying by the seat of my pants....I dont like not having everything done, and in order but there is no two ways around it, the older these kids get the more disorganized and not ready for it all I get! There is just always much much more to do!

So let the madness begin....Happy holidays to you and yours Gretchen

Slap on the hand!

Apparently I have made Ginny's bad blogger list TWO.. that's "2" weeks in a row! Imagine that.
So what has ARC girl been doing since Nov. 30??? Working for ARC!!! So first week of December there was a monster snow storm and I did not have snow tires on my car yet and there was NO WAY I was driving in..we got 14 inches in Hancock County. But EMA knew where I was and if they wanted me they could send the trucks for me!! Then I had meetings, and deployments and fires! None of which were pleasant or easy. I was extremely agitated by Friday the 7th with the service center. I was upset about a bad fire and young couple left with nothing, and went to bed with alot of stuff still up in the air. Fortunately my email showed in the morning that some people apparently do work the graveyard shift and some issues were cleared up by Saturday morning. Then by Sunday I was back in a mess again by getting my password locked out of JP Morgan Bank. Now we only have to have 8-10 passwords in this organization several of which expire on a monthly basis and several which will not let you reuse passwords!!!
It is a royal pain.

I have also volunteered at the wrapping booth, which is fun, and made a trip to Augusta yesterday to find out just how poorly we are all doing client case work if we are audited! So thats work for ARC Girl and if that is not enough..the social schedule is full.

Parties since Saturday the first...including my own birthday mixed in there..shopping and decorating for Christmas, Tylers Basketball games and concerts etc have made my life hectic at best! So that's my best excuses for the list!!

In other news Sib #3 who had her achilles operated on had to have it redone on Tuesday!
Not a good thing. Caroline flies home next Wed. Boyfriend comes on Friday! My tree is huge..not sure where that thing is going to go...its very shall we say...wide! There is going to be some major rearranging this weekend to get that thing to fit where it won't take over the house!
So that is life in the fast lane..
ARC Girl