It's Almost Christmas

Christmas is only about 7 days away and I haven't finished my Christmas shopping yet. This is NOT like me. This means I need to go into stores when they are crowded and I hate the thought of doing that. The good news is, I don't need that much and if I don't get everything, it will just wait. I can't deal with shopping at this late date and I started to late to do everything by mail. Oh well, I will do the best I can and no one will be left out.

On a brighter note - I asked Robert to come to Mom and Dad's on Christmas with me and he is actually considering it. This is better than the no answer I usually get or the implied no that I usually get. I will gently work on this over the next week. He knows it's important for me to go and be with my "family" on the holiday and I will go no matter what he will say.

And did anyone happen to hear World War III that took place in Boomfield on Monday night? I'm not sure how you could have missed it. The good news is there were no causilties of war and everything is okay between us. Maybe better than okay. I think in a way we needed to go there and get all the shit out of our systems. On Tuesday we were able to sit down and talk like adults (though I am reluctant to say adults because that implies I've grown up and I've figured out what I'm going to be as an adult - and that isn't true).

Work has been interesting lately. Management (those people you don't trust when they are in their business roles) are telling us that everything is good, we are taking on more work and we don't have to worry about our jobs. They are not planning on off shoring our positions, just those systems which will be sunset (going away in a year or 2). We are also going to be taking on more work over the next year. Some of it will stay with us but most of it will go off shore since it will be sunset.
To this note, on Jan 3rd, the area I work in gets to break in a new manager. Our manager who we don't want to lose is going to be handling the area where most of the work will be off-shore. She is doing this now and also trying to be there for us and she is spread too thin.
It seems every time we turn around there is something new being done in the area. Not that I mind change but it would be nice to leave things alone for awhile.

But, no matter what management tells us about keeping our jobs because the upper management is happy with our work and they could get rid of us at any time, I just don't trust them. Our director says he is telling us everything but I've heard that line before, more than once.

Only time will tell. I will just go with the flow and do what needs to be done. You can't fight the system, just go with it.