Well Stephen and I went to the EOY banquet Thursday night.  We were late...OF COURSE!  =o)  I swear I can't be on time for anything; of course it's hard to be on time when you leave work 15 minutes late.  Jules (my director) met us at the door and immediately ushered us into the banquet hall toward our table.  It's a good thing I was paying attention because we could have gotten lost with the amount of people that were there!  Man it was crowded!  I had to sit beside Bob, the head-honcho, who had only met me just two days prior.  I'm sure you can imagine how stimulating the conversation was.  Anyway, the food was great and I had to actually stand on stage beside Bob while he read some essay-type thing about me and what I did to be nominated.  My nerves were a mess; I don't like being the center of attention.  But as Stephen and I had discussed on our way home, it is nice for a company as large as Moses Cone to celebrate their employees the way they do (it was a service banquet for 5-, 10-, 20-year, etc employees) - the banquet was at the Sheraton, the food was catered, had an open bar and the higher-year employees all received a check.  It was a pretty nice evening and it felt good to get a little dressed up and go out with my honey.

Other than that my last few days have been pretty uneventful.  I did go out shopping today, looking for a birthday gift for Leigh but also finding a few other things as well...no big surprise there.  I found some cute little outfits to go in my baby box and a couple of little things for the Megan.  I'm thinking about giving them to her at her 12 week mark.  I'd like to be able to take them to work, but I really don't feel like dealing with all the drama and remarks that I know will come.  So I'll wait till after work like the last time.  I got her a onesie that's red for Christmas and says "all I want for Christmas is my Auntie."  It's too stinking cute!  I also found a book with some lullabies in it and a little blankie with Winnie the Pooh on it and "2011."  I'm excited about giving it to her and hope that I can wait until the end of the week.  It's funny how I can be so sad sometimes but get so much joy out of buying things for her baby.  It may be my new mantra - "I will not feel sorry for myself" - I honestly feel like it's helping.  I haven't been sad the past week-and-a-half that I've been saying it.  Makes me feel good.

I'll write again soon!