craziness!

you know, my last seven blogs have been about Buff and this whole situation, I think it's time that I move along, not so much that I forget about him (obviously) but to the extent where I don't dwell on the situation anymore.. What's done is done, and I can't live for the rest of my life in pain or in regret.

Yesterday my mom and I took out just a little tiny bit of our christmas decorations. We decided we would lighten the mood in the cove by turning on our christmas lights outside. This year I went CRAZY with the lights. We normally just do the house and that's it. But this year we did the house, the bush infront of the house, the porch, the railing on the stairs, and the tree that mike planted while he was still in elementary school (which is HUGE now)
It's so exciting. So yeah November first, the Schalins have thier Christmas lights up and on.

And so tonight when I came home from work with my peppermint mocha in hand (sooo goood) I felt sooo happy. I've said it before, and lots of people must think I'm crazy, but I love Christmas sooo much. To me it isnt a time of year. to me it's a feeling inside that just makes me sooo happy.
It's a feeling I get when I look at the lights twinkling in the snow (to be read: rain), when I see the christmas trees in the lot up at parkgate. When I hear christmas carols. You know how it goes. it just makes me insanely happy. And Im glad that I have something that can do that for me.

Im going to bed, Im opening starbucks tomorrow morning at five am! Wooo hoo!
By the way, that's going soooo goood! this is a job that can turn into something fabulous! We'll talk about that later!

Love always
Ashley
Xoxo