December 31st, 2008

Greetings! Hope you all enjoyed the snow/ice/freezing rain/more snow/rain we've had in the last week or so and survived the cabin fever if you were snowed in. Even if you were not snowed in, unlike me, hopefully you still enjoyed the snow and were kept safe. It was really interesting watching people in their cars trying to attempt to drive up our hilly street in the snow and ice, thinking they could make it up. A lot of them only made it up to the first street and went down that street instead of going backwards or continuing up. I, along with my sister, with my dad's help, made it out of our neighborhood Friday and took us to work. I also worked a few hours on Saturday before going to the Blazer game with my sister and niece that night, which we won 102-89 against Toronto. Sunday I went to church where a good message was spoken by one of our younger pastors in 2 Corinthians 5. It was nice to be at church again since the last two services had been cancelled because of the weather. I am hoping that what they had planned for this Christmas Eve service they will do next year. Oh, I also went in to work a few hours on Sunday afternoon as we had to get ready to transmit payroll on Monday. Because of the holiday tomorrow, we had one less day to get payroll in and done.
I bet you want to know how Christmas went. 2000 years ago, a baby was born to Mary and Joseph, to be named Jesus, Son of God. He would be the one to save the world and be known as the Messiah. Now, the present...we had our own family Christmas as we always do on Christmas Eve evening, only after watching the movie, The Nativity Story. We decided to watch that rather the read aloud the story from the Bible as that would be of more greater detail and visual of how it came to be. Christmas Day we had probably 10 different plans of how the day was going to go. It finally ended up as my brother and sister-in-law came as far as about three blocks away and then walked up to the house. Celebrating with my aunt and cousin will happen in January. A nice time was had by all that afternoon, and then we watched the Blazers lose to Dallas on tv. Hope you had a nice and blessed Christmas.
Work was crazy on Monday as we scurried to get all the branches done and ready to be sent. Last night, dad, my sister and I went to the Blazer game where we played the world champs Boston Celtics. Now, the first half, I don't think the refs liked the Blazers, although I don't think they really are to like any one team. Plus there was a lot of cheering and screaming at this game. Second half got really exciting and close. Guess what???!!!! The Blazers win, the Blazers win!!!!! You heard it correctly! Final score 91-86. You also know what? They won without Brandon Roy...he had an injury and didn't feel good enough to play. I must commend the Blazers for their teamwork, AND we outrebounded them 42-29.
Last, but not least, it is what it is! The Blazers are now 19-12 heading into 2009 with a win. Hope you all have a good and safe New Years!!!