Do you know any French?

Ok-So really, I had no idea I would be this busy!! Christmastime=no Bloggingtime! I had a gazillion rehearsals for this Christmas program we were doing at church. Which honestly, I wasn't too thrilled to be doing, but it turned out pretty good in the end. But that's over now, and the only thing left for me to do is to make it through 2 more days of working. Had one farewell lunch today, one more tomorrow. And not that I'm complaining or anything, b/c it was really sweet that people got together for lunch with me to begin with, but in the past, the one leaving always got treated to lunch. Not today.....Humph. Oh well. Wow, am I greedy or what?!?!? Where's my Christmas Spirit??

Probably in the same place as all those ASSHOLE drivers' that are out and about lately. (Pardon my French). Last week, I was driving to work, and to make a long story short, this delivery truck tried to RUN ME OFF THE ROAD!!! No joke. He was thisclose to me the whole time I was in front of him, and kept honking at me. Even though there was another truck in front of me, and I was unable to merge into the left lane yet. So I finally get over and he flies by me and flips me the bird as he passes and then proceeds to swerve into my lane and I end up in the shoulder while he swerves back into his own lane. What a jerk!!! I of course, totally shaken up that someone would even consider this normal driving behavior, and on the verge of tears. I don't cry about it until I actually tell the story to Derrick, whom I called immediately. And then I bawled. And then I called Horizon Freightways and complained to the guy there about his dickhead drivers and how they think they own the road. (Pardon my French again. You know what, just pardon it the whole post today. This is a blanket Pardon.) He said he would find out who it was and "lay into him". Hmm...didn't make me feel all that much better, but what can you do?

And then yesterday. Big accident on the 45. Only one lane open. Everyone is going super slow, and I'm merging from one freeway to another. Well, I know there is a merging lane that goes on for awhile, so I ride in that for awhile trying to get a little bit ahead. I finally get over, and the car in front of me notices the merge lane, thinks it's a real lane, and get over into it. Well, he's out of my way and I move up to take his place. Well, he decides that he wants back and proceeds to just butt back in. It was a matter of wills--I wasn't slowing down and he wasn't going to stop moving over. Finally, I backed off. I hate people that think they are the King of the Road. This big delivery truck. This big Caddilac SUV--not an Escalade--I don't know what it was. They think they can just push this little purple Corolla around. Well, they are RIGHT!!! I need a bigger, meaner car!!! No more getting pushed on the playground!! Where's my Honda Pilot when I need it?? With it's 4 Wheel Drive and big menancing frame. It's 8 passenger seating and sleek sporty look. The Purplerolla has had it up to here, folks. She's going to stop playing nice. There will be more honking, more bird flipping, more aggressiveness. And if someone notices the BYU Alumni license plate, or the BYU Alumni sticker on my car, I'll just tell them I'm borrowing it from someone else. Humph.

I had a new experience last night. My lips froze. FROZE. I tried to talk, and they were numb. They couldn't move. I was outside a mere 60 seconds. -6 degrees. It was just like on Christmas Vacation when they get the tree and Clark W. Griswold's mouth froze. It really happens!! It's too damn cold here for me. It's making me bitter and hardened and bitchy. Can you tell??

Ok, time to think of 3 nice things to make up for my ugliness and bitterness today.

1) Our awesome friends-turned-neighbors who gave us Harry & David treats. YUM! They are the best, and great friends. We don't hang out as much as we used to, and I think that should change. Their sense of humor keeps me sane when I start to go crazy from the viriginity and naivety of others.

2) Christmas lights. Milwaukee does a pretty decent job of decorating downtown. If Christmas lights, yes CHRISTMAS lights, not lame "holiday" lights, can't cheer you up, then you probably need something a little more serious, like "Elf", or doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles. If you live in the Milwaukee area, I highly recommend going to Candy Cane Lane, which is off of Oklahoma and 894. Just head East. You'll see it. Awesome lights. Some a little ridiculous, but still, very spirited.

3) Christmas traditions. My family was never very big on Christmas traditions, but Derrick's is. Which I think is fun. So, even though we're going to my house for Christmas, I'm still going to keep some of the traditions that he's used to and that I've started to keep. I can't mention them here, in case he snoops on over here, but I'm excited for them. Plus, I have to do something fun in case Christmas turns out to be a bust at my house!!

Well, there is much work to be done in the last 19 hours of my job. It's crunch time!