on working late

I finished decorating the inside of our house today. I got some new garland this year from Michaels and it was 60% off so each piece was only $4 and I'm very pleased with the outcome. My favorite part about decorating is that we get everone in the house a stocking. Ricky is in Dallas this weekend so I grabbed my mom to go shopping with me for all the fun stuff. My favorite place for stocking stuffers is World Market and my mom had never been there so we had fun filling up the little basket and walking around looking at everything in the store. I just love that place. We got little chocolates and some coffee for one of the guys and more chocolate (we just got a ton of chocolate) and some pens and sticky note highlighter things that were just non-existent when I was in college but really look like they would come in handy, and then I got everyone an ornament. Oh, and we have an older couple who lives in one of our studios and I got them some organic pasta and a soup mix.

And now I'm working at my laptop in this great mauve Lane recliner that was my Grandmas and has very quickly become my favorite spot in the house. (side note on the chair...I have very little that is truly "mine" here and I work really hard to maintain that mindset but, for several reasons, I had very definitely decided that this recliner was MINE...atleast in my head it was. I had managed to successfully convince myself of this for atleast the past 6 months and then last week one of the guys was writing a letter to a friend leaving the country and he kept using the chair to write the letter and I came home from work three days in a row and my chair, my Grandma's chair that I sat in as a little kid, the chair that I had decided was mine and only mine, was occupied. The first day I about had a coronary and then by the third day I realized it's just a chair and why does God give us things if not to share them with other people and use them to benefit those around us. And God has given us this house that we might share it with others and I need to be grateful for the opportunity to do so. *sigh* . I have relinquished the idea of the chair being mine but still find this little place inside of me that has delighted in finding it empty for the last several days as I've come in from the office. It invites me to come and read novels.) Back to reality...I keep trying to pull a report that keeps crashing and though it is 11:50 at night, I keep repulling it and repulling it. I'm on attempt number four and I believe it's still thinking so I'm going to have to close it down and try to repull it again...or I might just go to bed.