New Chapter in Life

A new chapter in my life is about to begin and I have decided to record every day of it. I have challenged myself to blog for a whole year, no matter how long or how short each blog is. Lets see how this goes! I start today!

     I have so much in my mind as this year ends and a new one starts this Friday! how weird is that!? you start the week being 2009 and end the week in 2010! There is so much I have to do starting Monday that I am deeply dreading it. I am a resident director at a four year institution in Southern California. I'll leave it at that :) I love my job and my staff. They challenge me and teach me all the time. I even love my residents even though they can be a pain at times. My building has 486 students and I am responsible for every single one of them. It is a first year building so they are all either 18 or turning 19, which also means they are all under age, except for a few of my RA's. There is of course no alcohol and drug policy as well as other policies that all students need to abide by. Well during our 24 hour quiet hours the last two weeks students decided they had enough and some decided to run crazy. Now I have to hear several conduct cases come monday!

    We are also in the mix of RA selection which I am a part of. I along with another colleague are incharge of outreach and it is all us come Monday! we have posters, facebook ads, newspaper ads, tableing, buttons, OMG! I also have evaluations for my RA's and my ARD to do that first week! I don't know how I am going to do it all. I feel like I have to start earlier than Sunday with some of these things because if not come Monday I am going to be runing around like a chicken with my head cut off!

     I suppose at least I can't complain of the great three weeks I had off, and that I still got paid! yay! Another thing to look forward to is Friday, not just because it's New Years Day but because it's pay day! Thank God! I have lots of things to pay off. This whole break I basically spent it with my family just hanging out, it was great. My brother who is in the Army also came over, I had not seen him in a long time! For the first time in a long time, all of us where together and it makes me very happy.

      This year I decided to make my own Christmas wrapping paper...never again! lol it was fun but so time consuming. I felt the only thing I did was rubber stamp and emboss wrapping paper the whole day, and for what? for the day of the opening gifts no one even cared. I was happy to see the gifts I had done because they looked beautiful but no one even noticed. I took so long to make it and no one said a word about how they looked. So next year I am going to go back to buying paper that looks pretty and ribbon to match. I will keep my stamping to my beautiful cards and leave wrapping paper making to others for now. Maybe in the future I will do it again.

       I still need to buy my mom and my sister their gifts, I kinda ran out of money so now I have to wait till January 1st to get them something. The same thing with my friends, I need to get them at least something, so I suppose I will be doing some shopping this weekend. Maybe I can still catch some good after Christmas sales :)

      So I got sick this week, nothing too bad just a head cold but annoying none the less. I don't like being sick, I guess no one does but damn, do I find it annoying. I hate headaches, runny noses and feeling tired. Of course I have felt all of these, on top of that a mild sore throat. I sprayed some throat medicine and it seemed to help, but woke up today feeling my throat hurt again, ugh! I have also started to cough so maybe it's getting worse? I really do hope it is not. I need this sickness to end this weekend, because well, I don't have time to entertain it next week.

      For NYE we are spending it at my aunts house like usual, so we leave tomorrow to LA to celebrate the end of 2009 and the begining of 2010! I bought champaign that I will definitely be drinking tomorrow.

Cheers to a new year, and to the begining of a new chapter in my life!

~Rosi