A Great Day!

Well, I finally made it to Friday….

Last evening, our new CFAAA Board of Directors met at Chili’s to plan our monthly meeting schedule for next year. We had a good meal, a good meeting and got lots accomplished. I emailed our new schedule next year to the fire chief and his secretary. They have to approve it before we can officially post it. Once it is approved, I will post it to our website and send it out in an email to our membership. After our meeting, I headed home and hopped on my computer to do some work. My laptop is still on the kitchen table with a broken lid, but it works. I am still waiting on word from a friend who said I might be able to take the mother board out of my laptop and use it in Gayla’s laptop (the mother board in her laptop is no good, so her laptop is no good). That way, I can still have a laptop without having to go buy another one.

This will be an interesting weekend, to say the least. This evening, I am working until 8 pm (I can use the overtime) and tomorrow, I am covering the 4 pm – midnight shift. I actually have no plans for Sunday afternoon, except to rest. Tomorrow morning, our office is giving away 300 turkeys to families that are less fortunate than we are. Many employees pitched in financially and we were able to buy 300 turkeys to give away. Yesterday, some of our crew workers went door-to-door in the neighborhood around our office and gave away coupons for free turkeys. All the residents have to do is bring the coupons to our office tomorrow, between 11 am and noon and we will give them a free turkey. Whatever turkeys are left over after noon will be given away on a first-come, first-serve basis. I will be here just to see the happy expressions on the faces of those that get the free turkeys. This is the first time our office has ever done anything like this, so we will see how it goes.

It’s only a week and one day away from Christmas. It’s hard to believe it’s almost here. Due to our finances this year, we are just buying for Stephen and Gayla…..Karla and I aren’t buying for each other. To us, this is our year to really focus on celebrating the birth of Christ and spending time together as a family. Gifts aren’t important to us anyway. We have been short-handed at work, which has made it somewhat easy to get some overtime in. Myself and another co-worker, are usually the ones that volunteer to work, but since her mom passed away last week, she is off work until after the first of the year. That means I can get all the overtime I want. The extra money will come in handy.