Last Year's Ugly Christmas Sweater, This Year's Winner!

Last year I bought an ugly Christmas sweater from a Goodwill.  I was trying to win a contest at Christmas Party for one of the places I worked at.  I embellished it with tinsel, some bows, and some unusual ornaments, but I did not win that year.  That was okay, I still had fun, and the winner was quite the site to see that year.  I kept my sweater around, however, because I thought it might still come in handy someday.  See the process here.

I have since left the one work place, but my other job, that I continue to work at, decided to have an Ugly Sweater contest this year.  

I had to make a few repairs to last year's sweater, but other than that, it was good to go!  So, Wednesday we wore our sweaters, Thursday we had a delicious potluck and voted, and Friday I learned that I won!  I had my choice of 3 Seahawks items.  Two were shirts.  There was a dark blue one, and a bright green one.  There was also some sort of bag, I think.  I choose the dark blue shirt.  It goes nicely with a Seahawks hat I bought myself, because I thought it was cool.  Now, that I have those items, plus a Jack-In-The-Box Seahawks Antenna Ball for my route car, that my friend Marsha gave me for my birthday - I guess I really should watch some of the games?  It is kind of hard, since I cancelled my cable sometime last year.  I don't really miss my cable, either.  

I have been incredibly busy the past couple of weeks.  I was taken off the Seattle Route, which I truly loved, to do a new route.  I was chosen because they felt they could trust me and I am reliable, so that is good.  I really miss seeing Seattle every day though.  I feel homesick for it.  I have been putting in some long hours with the new route as well.  Trying to find places I have never been to in the dark has been challenging, even with my TomTom.  It has only been a couple of weeks, but I think I am finally figuring things out, and learning how to drive the route more effectively.  Perhaps, I will even have new things to blog about!

I can still go to Seattle, on my days off, when I have some free time.  Luckily, I live fairly close by.  I really hope to see The Gingerbread Village at the Sheraton before it leaves this year.  I have never done that.  I also have a couple of free tickets to see some light festival somewhere up North, where I have never gone.  I am not sure when I am going to do that, but with free tickets, I don't want them to go to waste.

I cannot believe how quick Christmas is coming this year.  I looked on my calendar and realized it is this Wednesday!  I still have much to do.  Hope you all are having a happy holiday season, wherever you are at, and whatever reason you are celebrating at this time of year.