whoo-hoo!

Translation done!

The big one, that is. I'll still have the speeches (mainly summarized in what I just completed) to finish when I get the edited scripts to do, then go downtown to do the voiceover dub.

Maybe I'll get to work on the gifts I'm making for my mother and sister this weekend, then. I hope so.

I did some focused point-and-click shopping this morning for the kids' "fun stuff." With the online deals, sales, comparison shopping at your fingertips (and a $20 difference really does make a difference!) and the free shipping offers, I think it honestly comes out much cheaper to do this than to run all over town, especially with gas prices as outrageously high as they are. Does this mean I'm "doing my part"?

I have been filled with such sadness in that I haven't succeeded, for the first year I have worked with the Church on our Giving Tree for needy families and foster children, in adopting out the entire list of families and children. It shouldn't be personal, but it is to me; I feel like I'm failing them...if I could afford to go out and do something for everyone I had left, I would, but the household has been hit with what has amounted to a rather big paycut due to non-tax-deductible commuting costs that we did not before have, so we are tightening the belts even more than we were before. It is really too expensive for us to live here.

I'm starting to feel nostalgic and I am trying with all my might to force away the tears. Most of the time I succeed; sometimes I don't. I really don't have time for "feelings" right now.

sigh

I really do hate December.