I have seriously been lacking on the xmas spirit this year.  Like, totally not into it.  At all.  Jeff had to practically twist my arm to decorate the tree (granted, this was on the day I found out I got laid off, but…).  Then over the weekend, he just couldn’t get me motivated to be all “yippee” about xmas shopping.  The mall was a zoo, Walmart is annoying as always, I just couldn’t muster up any sort of “yay” this time.  Usually I am a bundle of excitement this time of year, gearing up to give everyone their gifts.  Maybe I wasted all my enthusiasm on Jeff’s birthday gift or something, but I was just not into it…

 …Until yesterday.  When I wrapped all of our gifts, made sugar cookies from scratch, rolled them out, cut them out, iced them, sprinkled them with those crunchy little colorful candy dots.  Yum!  I can’t wait to give everyone their goodies.

 So, that bomb I dropped further up-post?  Yeah, I got laid off.  Wah.  My company, thankfully, is being really cool about it and giving us two month’s notice before we are actually laid off.  So that means I get to come to work for two more months (to, you know, polish up my resume, job search on the company dime, that sort of thing) then I get a nice little severance, that should keep me in the money until I can find another job in this gosh forsaken economy.  So wish me luck.  I’m gonna need it.  I’m off to check Monster…and get paid for it!