December Thanks...

I had my birthday party on the first weekend in December. Yes its official, they day has come and gone. I'm 30!

Soooo just as a reminder to me. Thank you vanessa for the cute lil hat with a flower thing. Thanks Jeralyn for the picture frame. Thanks Jess for the gift card. Thanks Ashley for the board. Thank you Diana for the card and bringing Marcus who brought me the burrito....brave and awesome. LOVED IT :) Thank you Katie and Michael for the gift card and super awesome fun dinner with fun people. Love the music, food, and entertainment. Couldn't have asked for a better birthday evening. Thank you Ryan for coming along...and for the Salt and Lotion even though they came on different days, much much appreciated. Thanks Mike for the earrings. Wow. yeah Thanks :) Love them. Thanks Stacey for 30 of this and 30 of that and for reminding me time and again how I'm 30 :) Thanks Mom for dinner and your home. Thank you Thank you Thank you Arlene and Alejandra for the super duper awesome cake. Thank you Steve for suffering through a picture and coming to my party. I guess that same thanks goes to a few more people. Thanks Clarence for the stocking and the bracelet. Thanks nikki for the food you made. Thanks Justin for the entertainment you always so kindly provide anytime there is a crowd around. Thanks Marie for the Candle, I really love the way it smells. Thanks Sammie for the super cute cupcake candle. Who doesn't love the smell of chocolate, right? Thanks Rita and Pres for the calendar with your photography. I'll appreciate it all year long next year. Its quite possible I forgot something and/or someone.... I'll come back and edit when I realize it later. Oh Thanks holly and my aunts for sending birthday cards in the mail. It was a good week.

Saturday the 4th was my party, then on the 9th was my birthday, which was the day I gave a massage then got one of my own. Then the Madrigal dinner I went to that night was awesome. THEN on friday morning...I got up bright and early to go to Ryan's work christmas party with him. Oh Ryan and getting to everything early. I appreciate getting there early, don't get me wrong, but I think we got there unintentionally early. We brought a plate of cookies and then waited until I could check in. Apparently you aren't allowed to have your phone or a flash drive in that building. I was warned about the phone situation, but its a good thing I read the sign. I had to make a hike back to the truck to put my wallet away since I had a flash drive. You never know, I could've stolen some super secret confidential information. too bad I wouldn't know the first thing about being sneeky like that. Ryan showed me his desk, (felt like show and tell, it was cute) and then I met a couple coworkers. Then the first time slot was for games/movie. We watched the Disney version of The Christmas Carol. I must say it was major creepy. Good movie though. Then It was time to go get in line to get food. There were so many people there. Lines at like 7 -10 different stations. Oh yeah, before we went into the movie I ran into Bro. and Sis. Stankosky and Bro. & Sis Young and their son Jared. Sooo funny. I honestly didn't think I'd see anyone I knew. The line for food. yeahhh wayyyy long. But we just stood in line and chatted with some of Ryans work friends. Then up to his desk to eat. He had to do some work or something while we were there. Paperwork to catch up on or something. So I started to write a letter to kill some time. On a normal day I might have just text someone to kill time. Not happening that day. oh well. I survived, believe it or not. Then after that we were looking up funny things online. Don't know how much time we wasted in doing that. Then it was off to the talent show. Ryan wasn't a big fan of the church lady choir thing that was going on. Scroooooge i tell ya. oh well. He said I wasn't allowed to leave his sight, but I swear he had to pee wayy too many times that day/or maybe it was just filling up the water bottle. Thats about the only time I left his side. I think I was starting to feel like a leach. I made him go back to the talent show. It was interesting to say the least. What about a family christmas party on base screams BELLY DANCER...haha. probably my favorite act of the whole thing. While we were sitting there I also saw an old missionary that served in my ward 10 years ago. WOW, that was crazy. Found him and his wife on facebook already. Guess they are in the Dayton Stake and have been here a year already. I love it when I run into people I know. THEN...all the fun that we were going to have was about over. that talent show struggled a little bit. There was a sing along next, we got up and just went to his desk. Thats when I met another coworker. She was kind of funny. From Bulgaria, can't remember her name. We killed some more time then we had to help clean all the tables up. As we were walking another hallway I saw Bro. Weaver from the Xenia ward. haha, I had to kinda laugh and nudge Ryan every time I saw someone I knew. Then as we were breaking tables down Bishop Gullion from the Fairborn ward walked by. We chatted for a minute. He then told his daughter later in the day to ask me how I was doing....was I holding up with all of my cell phone withdraws haha oh BISHOP G...you know me all too well. I actually did pretty well up until I was trying to figure out what time it was and didn't have a phone or a watch. That made me super antsy. It wasn't the end of the world. I had a good time. Then clean up continued and I ran into another kid I met at a party at the Gullion home. Wow, i felt like I knew more people in that building at that point then Ryan did. Okay, that was a run down of my entire morning....the day only got strange after we got back to Ryans house. I actually ended up being late for work. oops. hate it when that happens. I should've made Ryan hurry up, but I didn't. Fail on my part. So I missed my first client at work. oops... Then the front desk gal was giving me crap about my schedule. Then the first lady was interesting, can't really give too many details on that. Then the next guy....um, even MORE interesting than the first....I've never been told to be done early for a massage and to just go take a break. I wasn't sure if he was being rude or what it was. It was just the wierdest experience I've ever had in giving a massage. UP UNTIL the next guy got a bloody nose on my table. idk....I had a good day the whole day, then it just went south. I don't know what it was about me that day. I went to get my print out and tips when it was time to leave and dont you know, my luck wasn't done being bad. The other Beth had taken one of my tips home. I was quite the grumpy pants when I got home. Sorry to my roommates for being a grouch.

Just thought I would share all that. I'm thankful that all my days aren't like work that evening. Sheesh....good thing its only gotten better from there.

I love my job. I love my friends. I love my family. Thank you all for being a part of my last 30 years.