"A solid challenge will bring forth your finest abilities"

Yeah, my abilities of being alone. Thanks a lot fortune cookie.

So I had one weekend of mourning for the boy.

I think I'm over it now.

I figgered the best way to move on is to finish my scrapbook from this year.

My last vacation with him and his baptism and all that jazz.

And just end this chapter of my life called Evan.

It will fill up my last scrapbook I own so my next adventure will have to be something different.

So I spent the weekend scrapbooking. Putting it all behind me.

Its nice to have some place to bury it and grieve or mourn later if I need to.

I thought it would be a nice closure.

I have usually done some type of scrapbook or journal for each boyfriend/chapter in my life.

I think they are very creative and well, from me, from my heart.

Oh yeah, and I'm getting a raise this next year.

I'm not sure what $120 more a month means on a salary basis, and with taxes taken out and everything is said and done its prolly more like $50 a month, but hey, a raise is a raise. I'll take it.

I think the last time I got a raise I celebrated with dinner alone too at Sizzlers. I haven't had a raise in a couple of years cuz business hasn't been so great. This year the beginning of the year sucked, but it picked up by the end, at least enough for him to think about giving me a raise. Sometimes the boss can say something nice and/or give me something without saying/doing something that irks me. Today was not that day.