Long week . . .

It has been emotionally and physically a long week. With the snow, whenever the public school closes, so does Alaina's daycare. So she got to stay home with Jeff on Wednesday. When I got home, we all headed out to play in the snow, Jeff shoveled the walk, while Alaina and I played Jack London and I was the sled dog. We must have been quite a site in out front yard with me pulling her in her little purple sled (thanks Uncle Scott!) all over the yard for a half an hour! It was a lot of fun, I wanted to take pics, but we were all too busy enjoying ourselves to go inside for the camera.
The big news came from work this week. The head of the department was let go. It was a tough time. I sit right outside his office by his secretary, who has been holding up better than anyone could expect. I admire her a lot and she has been a constant support to me since I got here, I've had to basically build my own job, but I would have had no foundation without her. She had been working with the BMOC for over 8 years if I remember correctly, so this has to be hurting. The department is shocked and I'm a little afraid of what's to come.
And the big physical news is that I am a team leader for the N-lighten Nebraska program! This means I'm the go getter who is suppose to inspire my team of five (including me) to get movin' and shakin! I hope I can keep this PMA for the next three months for this! I'm going to meet with my team to talk about our goals today, so I'll see how much they want me to poke my nose in their business. I'm actually very excited! If you want to know more about the N-lighten program (its statewide) google it and take a look! Mimi and Papa are heading to Omaha for the annual Phi Tau weekend, so hopefully we can arrange to get up there to see them! If I'm lucky, I can get a haircut while I'm there!
Oh that's one thing that still bothers me, I joined a hair cut club, which you can get double points for haircuts on tuesday, so I figured, 40 pts a haircut, and 200 pts equals a free haircut, so after 5 haircuts, I get a free one? With the new short hairdo, I could easily do that. Well the problem is that after I joined, they lost all their stylists! Ick! Now what do I do? Good thing it didn't cost much more than my pride to join this club. And that's probably enough about my week except . . .
Jeff's work party was last weekend. We got all dolled up, and headed out to the Embassy. We met some friends at the bar, so that we could all sit together for the meal, you have to get their early so that you can save seats! I had myself two chocolate martini's which cost way too much for a drink, but since I don't get out much, I can justify it! THey have prizes which are usually pretty great, like last year we won a portable DVD player, but this year it was all gift certificates. We got two, one from Shopko for $25 and one for Linens and Things for $25. I danced a bit at the dance until some drunkard dumped his very cold drink down my back, starting at my hair. Ick again. But all in all it was a great night. Great friends, good food and all the like.