Housekeeping!

Anyone have that running joke with friends where every time you knock on a door you say, "Housekeeping!"?  I can't see or say the word without hearing it in my head in my friend's brother, Daniel's, voice.  "Housekeeping!"  That and thwap.  Much love for Daniel.

Anyhoo, I am at work.  What am I working on?  Making this site a bit spiffier.  I changed to a three column set-up and added some new widgets.  I am not the most technologically adept person (I leave that up to the hubby, who can build computers) but I like to try and figure my way around simple stuff like this.  I'm proud that I was able to add my Twitter feed and a little text box of what I'm currently reading.  Eventually I'd like a separate tab for books, but let's not go all crazy today.

Also, housekeeping seemed surprised to see that there are people working here today.  A very nice gentleman came through the door by my office and was clearly surprised: "Oh!  Uh, mama, how long you be here today?"  I believe they need to clean the floors, which will trap me in the office (and my coworker, who shares the office, who is here for a half day today).  After I explained I'd be here until 5pm, the cleaning folks talked amongst themselves and then the nice man shut my door.  I don't know what this means.  I don't know if he just didn't want to bother me with the noise of whatever floor cleaning device I hear them using or if this means they decided to wash the floors and I am indeed trapped here until 5pm.  Thankfully, the bathroom is only about ten feet away so even if I had to walk there slowly on a wet floor, there is only a small chance I will fall down and crack my ass.

Christmas was enjoyable, although I did feel like something was missing this year.  I don't know quite what it is, but something was off.  Christmas (which I define as the time from the start of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade to the end of December 25th) is by far my favorite time of year but the only time I truly enjoyed this year was the time I spent baking cookies, the time I spent with my nephew on Christmas Eve, the church service (so much fun singing), and opening gifts with my hubby after the service.  Everything else was just okay.  Good, but not great.  We spent Christmas Day at my husband's parents' house and I think it's hard for me to adjust to spending half my holiday with someone else's family.  Okay, I recognize they're my family, too, but it's not the same.  I haven't spent three decades of Christmases with them and I wasn't really looking for a change.  In general, I can be slow to accept change that wasn't initiated by me.  When I initiate change, I can be really gung-ho about it.  When it's forced upon me, it's like taking my dog out in the rain, which we call "taking the dog out for a drag."

I'm all about the site change, though.  The Flickr widget is just a placeholder for now because I don't yet have a Flickr account, but I will; it will be part of my 101 in 1001 project.  I've been working on the list; as of right now I have 60 items on the list.  41 more and the list will be ready to post and start!