Final post of the year...

About 12 hours left and it's the start of a new year and a new beginning for this girl. 2006 has been a great launching ground for me and I'm ready to do even more in 07. Now if I can only remember to write 07 on my checks now! :)

I went through many of my old posts the last few days trying to get an idea of how I wanted to put together this post and really there is so much to say about the past year. But, I'm not going to bore everyone with the details; however, I've made a lot of mental notes to myself on what I think I could do better and improve on and what has helped make me somewhat successful so far. Probably the biggest thing for me this past year is opening up and growing up and speaking my mind not just allowing the world around me to pass me up so with that said that is my main focus for 07 -- along with being a little nicer. Sometimes I think this outspokenness (if that is even a real word) gets the best of me and because I think everything is about attitude, I'm going to try to improve mine. I can be outspoken, but I'm going to try to be a little more happy-go-lucky as well. We'll see how this plays out....

As for the rest of 2006, well, Christmas was a lot of fun. I spent Christmas Eve with my dad and bro and my aunt, uncle and Grandma and then spent most of Christmas Day with my mom, step-dad and my mom's side of the family. I ended up getting a lot of neat stuff and I think the presents I gave were a hit as well. This year was less about household items I needed and more about fun stuff.

Tuesday I had to go back to work and start preparing for year end. In fact, that was what I did most of the week. M and I entered payables for what seems like an eternity and I made cash projections into early 2007 and tried to get my reports together for the new year as well. Wednesday was more of the same and we went out to happy hour after work at Casa. It's always nice to finish off your day with chips and salsa and a margarita...especially when the week seems to just pass you by. After work Thursday I went to the Styx concert at the Pageant with my bro, his girlfriend and his best friend and it was amazing. The ticket was a Christmas present from my bro and it was an awesome one at that. We were down in the pit and about 10 feet away from the stage....doesn't get much better than that! I don't know what my brother can do to top this year, but I'm giving him about 360 days to figure it out!! :)
Friday was year end close at work. We cut checks pretty much the entire day and I helped out as needed so that I could get the reports done for the year at a decent hour. It didn't take too long this time and I was out of there before 6, which shocked me because I had been preparing for much worse. Hopefully I followed through and took care of everything because my mind was surely not at work on Friday. In any case, I got the preliminary work done so that we can start financials in the next couple of days.
Yesterday was a nice break. I didn't have much to take care of in the morning so I just stayed home and then went to my mom's in the afternoon and I took her and my step-dad out to dinner for their anniversary. And this morning I was up at 4 to get them to the airport. Lucky them...they are on their way to Hawaii to work on the house...while I'm stuck here!

Tonight a few of us from work are going out to an early dinner for New Years Eve. Nothing like last year...but it will be fine. It's probably best that I keep myself out of trouble anyway! It will be nice to go out with everyone though and get the scoop.

I hope 2007 brings health and happiness to everyone! Here is to another great year!!!