It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Well it's less than 2 weeks from Christmas and it's actually starting to feel like it around here. By that I mean, it was 10 degrees out during my drive to work this morning. Brrrrrr...so not used to that. Really 10 degrees is pretty much as cold as it gets here in TN on its very coldest day and it usually doesn't happen until January or February. So with that said, we are replacing our upstairs heating unit. We replaced the downstairs unit when we bought our house, but held off on the upstairs. Well after I went up to wake up Carter a couple days in a row and his room felt like Antartica (not really, it was like 65 degrees), we decided to buy a new unit. Our current unit is entirely electrical and our electric bill can nearly reach $300 during the winter and summer months, so by switching it out we should be able to cut that down by a 2/3. It's not exactly the time we want to be dropping the money on it, but luckily we had set aside some money to put towards a new roof, so it doesn't hurt as bad. Although we won't be replacing the roof for a while now.

Speaking of cold, it actually snowed here on Sunday. We also usually don't see any snow until January or February, but we got some this weekend. I think we got about an inch at my house and it shut the entire mid state down. I'm not kidding. Every school in Middle TN was closed. It's just different here, that's all. I think they have like 15 plow trucks for the entire state of TN. We're not used to it. And actually I haven't had a white Christmas since my last Christmas spent in South Bend 6 years ago. So Santa, all I want for Christmas is snow! Seriously!!

Speaking of Christmas, my family and I went to see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular this past Saturday and aside from the major parking issues (Opry Mills parking lot is all blocked off since the flood in May), it was spectacular! (pun intended) Brett and I arrived at 5:00, thinking the show started at 5:30, so we patiently waited for the rest of my family to show up. They got stuck in all the parking mess and didn't arrive until 5:30. That's when my mom informed me the show started at 5:00. Dang it!! We couldn't get in since they had our tickets, so we missed 30 mins of the show and walked in during the Toy Soldier performance. Even though we missed 30 mins of the the 2 hour show, it was still way better than I expected. I'm not much for singing and dancing but this show was great! I was especially impressed by the ending. They performed the Nativity Scene and really explained the true meaning of Christmas and that it's about Christ's birth, not Santa and presents. They didn't shy away from it at all and it was really amazing. I LOVED IT! Definitely worth going to if you ever have the opportunity.

Other than that, we have just been busy trying to work, chase Carter around, and get Christmas shopping done. We recently lost our other salesman at work, so it's been just me trying to hold the fort down lately and it's been a little hectic. Thankfully, we just got another guy hired and he starts Monday. This means I will no longer have to work every Saturday as well as Mon-Fri.

That's all for now folks.