Where has the time gone???

December has wizzed by too fast! I find Matt and I saying "didn't we want to do this or that before Christmas?" and finding that no matter what we do we will never be able to do it all. The time for avoiding all things Disney has commenced as just braving Downtown Disney yesterday resulted in insane crowds! Even my commute to work is a little slower what with all the tourists who stay in one hotel/motel or another by our house. The funny thing is, is that at Downtown Disney I encountered more Disney Cast Members than anything else! I guess because they, like I, think to themselves, "I wouldn't touch a park right now with a ten foot pole!". Ha ha. People always seem to be amazed to find out that Disney is busy during the week of Christmas. "Who would go there during Christmas??" they ask, completely astonished. "Well, right around 70,000 people....and that's just the Magic Kingdom" ha ha. It's pretty insane, I admit, as I would never have thought about going on vacation during such a decidedly family driven holiday, but I guess when you consider how many "Disney or Bust" signs I see on people's vehicles and tee-shirts, it probably IS a family event! Just a super insane, super expensive, super BUSY family event. No thanks. I prefer my Grandma's house. :o)

Helloooooooo Humans!

I don't know why I titled my blog that. But for some reason I just got a bout of "Monster's Inc. Laugh Floor" stuck in my head. So Christmas is coming up much more quickly than I am prepared for, but I am SO excited to be going home for Christmas that I am urging time on to go even faster. I am extremely excited to see my family and friends, and to get to be at the Ferguson Family Christmas Party. I love love love the Christmas Party more than any other Ferguson gathering. The house is decorated, the food is delicious and the company great. Everything about it says "Home". This year for Christmas Day the family dynamic will be different as my mom got married earlier this year. There are the kids of her new husband that I have never met to contend with. Not that I don't think we will get along. Just different. We were the three musketeers for so much of my life (even when my mom was in a relationship) that it is hard to think of that changing. Although, if I think about it, it already changed, since Erin is married with two adorable children and I am married, we have expanded our family a lot. I suppose we can expand it more.

Work has been hectic lately, all the more reason to egg a vacation to get here faster. I also found out that my co-worker, whom I work solely with at night, will have her last day with the company on December 23rd. I will come home from vacation to working nights alone. I don't look forward to this for many reasons, but I suppose, as Aretha Franklin says, "I Will Survive". Though I have a sneaking suspicion that this turn of events will push me over the already crumbling edge and leave me clinging to a pole at the SLC airport on January 2nd yelling "Don't make me go back!".

Sigh.