That’s my theory, anyway.

Well, after a fairly hectic and stressful morning (I don’t know if you caught that), it was actually a fairly pleasant and humorous afternoon.  My Daddy called at lunch, saying he was over at my site (although we work for the same company, he’s across town in another building) and offered to take me out to lunch.  There he surprised me with some really good news involving an OLLLLLLD friend of mine.. my family takes care of our own.  I was very proud to be a Brown today.  And I’m very, VERY happy with Daddy.

We went to Jackson’s, which is about as good home cookin’ as you can get around here.  I blame Elaine.  I had fried okra, which I seriously had been craving since she mentioned her freakish child liking it.

After lunch, I came back to wrestle yet again with this lone expense report that has been plaguing me, seriously, for almost two months now.  We rolled out a new accounting system, which ate the report the first time I submitted it, and now, I’m on the phone with tech support so often that I know them by name.  One guy in particular who tickles me is Nick.  He sings to me while we wait.

Today’s bug?  Everytime I tried to save an expense entry, I got the error message, “Hello, World!!”.  Made me laugh.

I’ve been trying.  Crank up my car, and you’ll hear nothing but Christmas music.  And I’ll sing.  And I’ll even get goosebumps when certain songs come on.. the usual traditional hymns, arranged by acapella groups, that make you feel warm all over when they’re sung.  But try as I might, I am not at all looking forward to Christmas Carol this year.  I can’t make myself excited.  I think this may be my final year of CC.  It’s just time to hang up my bonnet.