Holy cow!  Bush almost got hit by a shoe!

I just realized that Christmas is next week, and we don't have a tree yet.

Lots going on.  It's funny, since The Dark Knight has been at Briarwood... I've yet to go see it there.  I've never really had much of a chance to.

Bethany's birthday was last week.  The 10th.  She's 24 now.  I woke up at the butt crack of dawn, went over to her place and made her breakfast before she left for work.  Pancakes, sausage, and scrambled eggs with cheese.

I felt a little bad because after that, she really didn't want to go to work.  Way more so than usual.  She took a tiny nap before she left.  She left for work and I stayed to clean the dishes and put her birthday present in her bathroom.  An orange toilet lid cover with a matching rug.  She loves it.  

My parents and I recently moved my Grandma Kellman in.  Before she moved in, my dad, uncle Keith and I moved stuff around to prepare for the move.  We turned the computer room into Grandma's room.  We had a lot of stuff in the basement taking up space.  Most of that is sitting in the garage until a decision is made on what to do with that stuff.  The computer and heavy-as-hell desk was moved to the basement.  I guess the plan is to have grandma stay with us until my dad and his sisters find an assisted living place for her.

My boss at the studio has got to be one of the most full-of-shit individuals I have ever met.  About a month ago my hours were cut because business has been a bit slow.  So instead of going in Monday through Thursday from 1-5, I don't go in on Wednesdays anymore.  It sucks, not just because it means a thinner paycheck, but there's actually a lot of shit I still need to finish: Design a 30 page wedding album, edit and post on the website photos from a recent family shoot, re order preschool pictures of 2 kids where the kids faces are "blown out" (over exposed highlights) which is bullshit, I think they're just fine.  I had a ton of other stuff that need to get done but I was able to get that all done last week.  The wedding album i need to get done before the weeks end... because Judy is full of shit.  The mother of the bride came in last week to pick up a bunch of prints that she and various other family members / friends had ordered and asked judy when a rough draft of the album would be completed.  Judy told her it'd be ready next week (being this week) and when i heard her say that, I banged my head on the desk, because thanks to all the other shit I had to do, I hadn't even started designing the album yet.  I managed to get 5 pages done during work yesterday.  And I still need to edit that family shoot.  I was hoping to get those online this week but that ain't happening.  

And Judy doesn't know shit about photography.  I'm pretty sure laura would happily agree with me on that.

So with my hours being cut at the studio, I told my supervisor at best buy that i'm available to work more hours, which, unfortunately hasn't quite worked out how I wanted.  Before I was working tuesday and friday truck shifts and closing on sundays.  I updated my availability so that I can now close on wednesday nights as well.  Hasn't really worked out that way because now I'm only scheduled to close on either Sunday or Wednesday.  Though this past Sunday sucked a lot because I was only scheduled for 4 hours.  1-5.  We closed at 10.  Granted it was nice to get out early and spend the rest of my Sunday with Bethany, especially since it was crazy busy and I was running all over the place the entire shift fulfilling dot com orders and doing caryouts, but i need money, which means i need more hours.  

This turned out to be a far longer post than what I was expecting.

I've decided that I want a replica of Tiger Stadium for Christmas.  I shall tell my parents tomorrow.

That's another thing.  I still have christmas shopping to do.  Dad's easy.  He usually wants movies, and this year proves to be no different.  I have an idea on what to get mom.  I haven't a clue on what to get Bethany, and "I don't know" in response to "What do you want?" doesn't help.