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Happy Christmas 1st!

I have a bit of a headache this morning. I think it is a sinus pressure headache. The weather here has been weird in the last 24 hours. Basically I froze my ass off yesterday. No matter what I did, I could not get warm. It was no more than 35 or so all day. Then in the evening it started to warm up and rain. All over the place.

It was a busy day yesterday. I had my TSA appointment in the morning. My appointment wasn't until 10, but I didn't want to sit in traffic so I left the house at 5:45. Yeah, I know. But I brought some TV shows with me on the laptop and figured it would help kill a few hours. The place for the interview opened at 7:30 and I got there at 6:30. I did watch a couple of shows while I was waiting and at 7:32 I took a chance and went inside. Luckily I picked a slow day. They saw me at 7:40. I was done and back home by 8:45. This was really good as I needed to power through a new class we are delivering in January. I got a LOT done yesterday too. I do have a bit of motivation to have it done by 1/5 and let me explain why.

While I was driving yesterday I called American. I am currently at 41,000 miles. I have 5200 booked between now and year's end. I am going to finish up about 4k short of Platinum. I called to ask them what I could do. Turns out since I am so close, I can pay an upgrade fee to get to the next level. Awesome, except it's $600 to do this. I have to debate whether it's easier and cheaper to just spend a whole day flying to get the 4,000 miles or pay the fee. When I mentioned this to my boss yesterday, he is so wanting this class done, that he agreed to let me expense the fee if I get this class done early. Done and done. I will have it done before the first. If I can spend 2016 as Platinum you're damn right I am going to work long and hard getting this class done. The problem is how many free days I have to do this. We ended up making the decision to cancel my Thursday/Friday class. There was only one person and we moved them to a January class. Score. That gives me two more days this week to get a shit ton done. Very happy about this change of events.

Around 3, the bed people came. The new bed is huge. Sigh. We both love it, but it's just so big and takes up a huge chunk of the room. We now need to figure out how to replace the dresser and nightstands to rearrange the room. This is going to be painful.

After they left, I went back to doc writing and then we went out for a quick errand. B spent the day cleaning her old laptop off to give to her sisters for Christmas. We needed to get a mouse. I tore apart boxes trying to find an extra mouse to no avail. We ended up having to go to Target and Fred Meyer to find one cheap enough to give away. While we were at the store we grabbed a roast chicken for dinner.

Got back home, had dinner, then settled in for the 4th HP movie. These movies just keep pissing me off with how much they are leaving out. Some movies would do better as TV shows because you'd have more hours to tell the story. I would have rather seen one book per season and have them spend 8-10 hours doing story development than try to cram all of it into 2.5 hour movies. My opinion.

Finished up around 10:30 and went to bed. Today I have 3 students, tomorrow 2, then back to my doc writing. I must finish!