This must be it, welcome to the New Year.

I think I'm going to title each post from now on with lyrics from a song that are suitable to the post I'm about to write. 20 points if you can name the song.

It doesn't feel like a New Year to me. It's just as cold (colder), just as boring and just as stressful. I was really hoping for the change into 2010 to be something drastic, where I could say "Yes, it's a new year now!" But no, I don't feel that way. I thought that since the stress of Christmas and getting our passports had surpassed, I could finally sit back and just enjoy myself, waiting patiently for our trip to the Dominican to arrive. But again, no, the stress is lingering now because we are feeling tight on money and me missing a week of work (and pay) isn't going to be good once we get back. Why of why does growing up have to equal stressing out about things, unwillingly. I feel like I'm always stressed about something these days. When do I get to just live? In the Dominican, in two weeks, I guess.

Anyway, Paul and I ended up staying in on New Years - not that he was really happy about that. He wanted to go and be with his friends, but they went to Toronto and since he knew that I wanted to stay in, he went along with it. We watched Up! (so cute and sad) and ate diner that I made. I think it was nice to be home together - I hope he thought so too.

I just got home from work, at 2am. I'm exhausted, my chest hurts (please help me pray that I am not getting a chest infection) and my eyes just want to close. But my writer's block is gone, so I will write for awhile, at least until I finish the chapter I'm working on. Oh, and I'm very excited that Katie said she'd read and edit my writing a little bit at a time. I know I need it all editor before I can get it published, so this is very exciting for me!

Tomorrow we're going to a McKee family reunion, I believe. I work weird shifts this week coming up, so I'm going to be "off" all week, I know it. At least I can just keep saying, less than two weeks til Dominican, less than two weeks til Dominican...