Random thoughts so you don't have to look at Vin anymore.

I (as well as many others) am sick of looking at Vin... but I've also got nothing to blog about. I was going to review the holidays, Christmas and such, but I don't really remember the highlights enough to blog about it all. Christmas was good, we spent it with family and we can't wait to do it again next year. The girls got tons of stuff they'll forget about in a few weeks and I got lots of stuff I returned/exchanged for stuff I really wanted.

The girls spent the week in the David following Christmas and I got to spend time at work. Yay. I've been working a lot more lately as I took some time off for the holidays - and now I'm playing catch up.

New Years was fun....We went downtown in the freezing cold in my new favorite place to be. I met some guy who reminded me of the Grim Reaper in a black suit and red tie. I thought he was trying to get me to buy a table or come to some crazy place and spend crazy money. Turns out he was just trying to find a place to be/people to be with. My FAVORITE time of the night (besides listening to two dudes try and pronounce the word "hummus") was introducing the Grim Reaper to my cutest/happiest acquaintance, Modesto, and having the Grim Reaper throw gang signs at him as if he were from Modesto, CA. Nice! I don't know why it's not as funny now as I type it, let me just say, it was funny. Apparently the Grim Reaper told friends that I was a "player" which I took to be a compliment. It meant I actually appeared to be trying to do something I wasn't trying to do - like throw some sort of game at him. Really, Grim, I have no game.

Next comes work. I L O V E my job, and not only because I gave my boss this blog address. Here are the reasons I L O V E my job:

1) It is flexible. Actually, my boss is flexible. He hired me with the understanding that I would require flexibility and that he would be flexible. I am reasonable and he is too. Actually, he might be more reasonable than I am. We flex well together.

2) It is mucho entertainment. I am really astounded on a daily basis by human behavior. There are SO many seriously crazy people out there. When I have to call an attorney and request that their client provide us with photos with date/time stamps on them to prove when their client put the children to bed - I sit quietly and review a few things. First, I don't have to take photos of my kids ever and send them to their dad (unless I choose to, in which case I do). Second, I am not as crazy as I think I am. I could go ON and ON and ON, but I'm pretty sure I'd like to keep the job I have and therefore I am not authorized to share on my blog about cases. I would love to write a book someday about certain instances I've come across over the years....I've had some seriously crazy clients - and worked with some even crazier attorneys (not JEM or JKS or SME, fyi).

3) I have the best co-workers ever. Anyone who knows me knows that I love my co-workers. I love my boss, and again, not because he's reading this, but because he's the funniest person I know, (other than me). He can make light of any situation (except pending bar complaints) which I think is an exceptional quality. He is not religious in the least bit, but his favorite saying is "WWJD" which always comes across in a very sincere way. I think I've just known him way too long and we've sort of become a huge ball of sarcasm.

**I'm also glad that he can only just barely use a computer and therefore will never read this blog post.

4) I get to go behind closed doors. You all know you have secrets you are holding on to in the event of a divorce. Admit it. YOU know who YOU are. When in the throes of divorce, all the dirt comes out...and it's not just the dirt, it's like the dirt that lives under the dirt's dirt.

THAT sort of dirt. And I get paid to hear about it, review the video of it, the text messages about it and the voicemails regarding it. This might sound like a terrible thing to some, but I love it.

5) I've been doing it for so long it's like second nature. But different, everyday. It is all about divorce, custody, parenting time, child support, but everyone wants something different, makes a little more/less money and celebrates Christmas and/or Yom Kippur. The laws are the same, but we are all different.

Sometimes I think maybe I should try to find a job in a more "uplifting" environment like working with animals, or children...or even for the IRS...but it's not all rainbows and butterflies, is it? Someone has to do the dirty work...

But then there are the days when you receive the positive hair-follicle test result and you can actually prove that mom is on meth and then the judge actually takes the child away...

I relish the good days.