The new job is truly exciting. I am currently working on a training curriculum so I can start training beginner classes. WAHOO! Exciting times indeed. I am nervous and hope that I can do this competently!

I didn't sleep last night. I was up until 5am. I also woke up at around 9:30 when R got out of bed. I was hoping to go back to sleep but didn't. Oh well.

We are going to meet up with teacherwoman in Feb. I am VERY excited for this! She is always so much fun... R and I are going on a cruise with my family and we are all arriving the day before to insure we make it on the cruise (since it will be Feb and we are all northern!) so we'll only have time for dinner, but at least it's hang out time.

Anyways, R asked me if my family would be ticked that we were going to be arriving then taking off to meet someone else. I said I didn't think so. He then asked if I was going to invite them all. I said nah. He didn't seem to understand that... and that is what kept me up last night.

At Christmas time I had plenty of my brothers. I love them, don't get me wrong, but S, the oldest, is fine in small doses and M the middle guy, can be really mean. An example, on Christmas day we were all at my aunts house for the annual Christmas bloody mary party. We arrived at about 3pm. At about midnight we were all playing a board game, I forget the name of it, but you have to give out clues for your team to say a word. I got R to say the word I had by using an example that my brothers thought was offensive to our immediate family. Long story, but they were right, I just didn't think about it in terms of a nosy extended family asking questions after the fact.

So after that round of the game, R and I went to smoke. My two brothers were out on the patio. My brother M started ripping me a new one for being so stupid and not thinking about other people. I apologized about ten times and he just kept railing on me so I started crying. And crying. And crying. Super fun!

Once I was back home he sent me an email apologizing. Typical. Then my parents got an upgrade for the cruise, two on one floor, two on another. M noticed that my parents, R and I are on the 8th floor while M and S are on the 6th. He sent an email saying "I see Kristy is still the favorite" R suggested I write something funny back, so I did, to which M wrote back Bulls@$%. And that was it.

I am super excited to be going on the cruise. I am not super excited that it's with my whole family. I adore my parents, I think they are the best, but the brothers? I am still getting over the Christmas time exposure... I know it's a cruise so we won't be seeing them all the time, but I would be just fine knowing that I wouldn't be seeing them for a wee bit longer... is that bad?

So that is what keeps me up some nights. Just thinking about the dysfunction and wondering if I am a bad person for seriously not wanting to be around them. And thinking of ways to avoid them. Such is life right?

Enough whining.

Happy Saturday people! I am excited for FOOTBALL! GO PACK! :0)