Christmas is really coming!  It’s hard to pretend it isn’t coming anymore.  We’ve had snow!  (Ok, a tiny scattering of snow but the forecast calls for much more in the next few days)  The pretty Christmas lights are out which I LOVE. Christmas lights really add a lovely sparkle to the dark night and once it snows and everything is white, the pretty colours liven up the night. Not everyone will agree with me but since this is MY blog, I can write whatever I want because it is MY opinion!  Oh Yeah!  Shazam! 

Last week I did my first Good Deed Winter Edition.  It had snowed (not really SNOWED snowed, but there was a light dusting on the road) and I was driving to work. I sometimes take side roads if the main roads are reported to have lots of traffic on them. This was such a day. I was drying behind this little station wagon for quite a ways until we got to a curve on the road. As I rounded the bend, the station wagon was gone. How could it be gone? There were no roads around… where did it go?  THERE it is – in the ditch! I immediately pulled over and went over to see if everything was OK! The passenger seemed a little shaken but was otherwise OK. He was so stressed out about having gone off the road he forgot to put his car in PARK. It was still rolling and was just a few inches from the gas lines. In the accident, the loose things in his car got tossed around which included his cell phone. I let him borrow mine to call for help and stuck around for a little while until he had calmed down. When it seemed that everything was OK, I drove away. I have never stopped at the scene of an accident before but then I have never been there right when the accident happened.

Work is going quite well. My job is changing everyday. I am doing some project management now, organizing internal communications and even started a company newsletter which turned out to be such a great hit!  No one asked me to put together a newsletter – I chose to do it because I wanted to do something fun for the staff. One of the guys suggested I start a JOKE OF THE DAY and the very next day I did just that. I copy a joke, go out to the shop and put the new joke in the JOTD binder. One morning one of the guys came upstairs giving me shit for not doing my job. I wasn’t sure what he was talking about until he mentioned that he looks forward to the JOTD during his first break and when it wasn’t there he was so disappointed. So now, I have several jokes prepared in advance so I can just go downstairs and put the new joke in the binder every morning. It’s a small thing but it makes people happy and I am all about cheering people up.

This weekend my sister Franca came up for one night. It was Dexter’s first time home alone since Chester passed away and Franca only came up for one night. We watched some TV, went grocery shopping and generally hung out. Mark actually picked her up on his way back up from the city so it saved me a trip! Sunday I drove Franca back to the city, stopped at my parents for lunch and then dropped her off. It was such a lovely time.

Three more weeks to Christmas.  I have already put up all my lovely Christmas lights. Put outdoor lights up for the first time but I still have no pictures to post.

I was doing a 365 project – 1 photo per day for an entire year – but I quit that. I used to take pictures for fun but the 365 project became a chore and it wasn’t fun anymore. When things stop being fun for me I lose interest. Quitting the 365 project should help me get back into the fun of picture taking.

Lunch is over and I have work to do.  Have a great day!

Stay Safe & Have Fun!

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