it's that time again.

finally finished friday is here again. and i actually have a few finished things {hence the post, or else i would have pretended not to notice it was friday}.

finally, i finished putting away the christmas decorations. i think mom always had us take them down on or near the first of january, but joee told me i wasn't allowed. apparently, the 7th of january is the approximate day that the wise men would have arrived at the manger to visit baby Jesus. he says in his culture {he's mexican, p.s.} they celebrate this by leaving their shoes out on the night of the 6th and they get a present in their shoes on the morning of the 7th. therefore, i couldn't take down our decorations until then.

{ i had no presents in my shoes this morning}

finally, i finished burning all of the pictures i had from 2010 to cd's for safekeeping. i try to do this every six months or so, especially since my computer is ancient and who knows what might happen to all my memories.  not to mention the great hard drive debacle of 2007 in which i lost every picture i'd every taken...

finally, i finished putting pictures in the empty frames hanging on the living room wall. i absolutely had to do this today, because once i took down the christmas decorations, including the wrapping paper over the frames, i couldn't stand to look at empty frames...

so that's that. pictures and christmas.

by the by, i start work tomorrow. well, staff meeting and training. but work nonetheless. and yes, it's on saturday {ugh} and yes, i have to drive all the way to cleveland {double ugh}. but hopefully all will go well.

and i mean cleveland, tennessee, of course. not cleveland, ohio.