ok, i'm back in chi-ca-go (area)

it was a wonderful week down south visiting with my family. it even snowed the day after christmas. not alot but just a little.

basically not much happened. Suga came by to visit a few times. I hung out with Swift and his kids & wife and my dad and my sister Feather. Raquel is has developed the nickname Daisy Mae because of her obsession with animals. She got another rabbit for Christmas. Swift's daughter Rosalia got a bunny for christmas too. All 3 of the girls got fish tanks from Grandma (mom to me) and i got them thier fishies and some stuff for the tanks.

otherwise, it was a normal christmas at my parents' house. Lots of screaming kids and people running in and out of the house. Raquel and her rabbits (animal lover married a hunter... but they are so happy and so sweet together.) and well just crazieness.

my flight down was uneventful. i got to o'hare, boarded the plane, landed and bam i was home. however getting back was a different story. Delays and cancellations. I was not a happy camper. but i got in late friday night instead of thursday evening and all is well.

Taranis took me out to Olive Garden which was amazing, we were so full we asked for doggie bags and dessert to go. then we went to go see "I Am Legend"

and Taranis slept through the previews. But he stayed awake through the rest of the movie. It didn't end out I wanted it to end, but what movies actually ever do? Anyways, it was an excellent movie, lovely graphics and special effects and terribly intense on the edge of your seat movie.

Saturday we got up early and went walking around the Oak Brook Terrace mall (which is an outdoors mall by the way and terribly cold in the winter) and went to eat brunch at Antico Posto. After that we went to Wal-Mart and he bought us Rockband by MTV games. Which by the way is awesome. I'd already cleared out a bunch of space in our room and moved into the storage room because it was just taking up useless space so now its all comfie in here even with the drum set from the game.

I'm quitting the spa. I need to wait til our manager gets back from vacation but I'm putting in my 2 week notice. It's pointless for me to work 2 jobs now that I don't have the truck payment anymore. Taranis makes in 1 week what i bring in from 1 job (actually more) in 2 weeks and it was fine while I was single but not anymore. I want to spend my weekends relaxing at home with him and going out to movies more often instead of working/waisting my life away and only seeing eachother for a few hours during the week when he's exhausted and i'm exhuasted from working.

so! it's official. i wont be working weekends anymore after about 3 more weeks. around the end of January or a little before then. I don't know what I'll do having 3 day weekends. Friday, Saturday & Sunday off. (unless it picks up at the firm and maybe i'll get 40 hours there instead of 32)

so anyways, taranis and I talked and it's "our money, our this, our that"... i still have a bad habit of saying "mine" and he'll just look at me and smile/wink. so it helps relieve the uneasiness that i feel and apprehension about quitting my job at the spa. i'm always afraid something is going to happen and i'll be kicking myself in the ass for quitting. but its time to stand up to the fear and stop running myself ragged because of it and just quit/let it go already.

and i miss my man so much when i'm at work. we're just starting to get in the groove and hangout and have fun when BAM, jenny's gotta go to work. so no more! no more workie workie on weekendie for me.

speaking of its nearly 3pm now and i have to be there in 2 hours. time to go. have fun.