94 hours and no tax $

I much prefer to list my points since it helps me keep my thoughts organized and my paragraphs long : ). That being said....
1. I've worked 94 hours in the past 2 weeks...we have been so busy and I LOVE it! However, I have not had a free moment to get to the post office (which is ONLY down the street from the office!) to mail out 2 Target mailboxes I told Stacy I would send her. I feel horrible. I did try to send it FedEx through my dad's work, but it's a PO Box so that didn't work. I seriously need an assistant at t work. I am convinced that when I win the lottery someday, the following will occur: I will keep working at my job because that is how much I love it (and yes, John will still have to pay me!)...however, I will then be able to afford my own assistant and therefore I will give that person the stuff I don't want to do and/or don't have time to do. I won't have to work 47 hours a week because I won't be the only one doing all the projects we have going on! Trust me, I'm not complaining...I truly adore my job....but I am only one person, ya know?

2. One of my favorite moments in the past few days happened this morning. Long story...I kept having bad dreams last night that I was at an open house and I got kidnapped...scary, right? So I kept tossing and turning, and it was hot in our room, so I finally just got up, grabbed my pillow and my red fuzzy blanket, and went to sleep on the living room couch. I'm not sure how much later, but my cat was purring like she never has before (probably happy to have me to herself in a sleeping position like the old days when I was in high school and she could curl up in the middle of my fetal position) and she jumped on the couch, lay down in front of my face, and snuggled up to me and just PURRED!! She is such a funny cat...we first got her when I was in high school, and she was just my precious baby back then...we were inseparable. Then I went to college and she kind of forgot who I was....wouldn't let me pick her up, was always crabby with me, whatever. But in the past few weeks she's changed and is always much happier to see me! So that makes me happy, particularly because I know she doesn't like Luna Elizabeth stalking her and she runs to me for cover! So it's nice to have the Mags I know "back".

3. I've been thinking a lot about inspiration lately...I've been having a hard time getting back into scrapping after being away from it so long, and I haven't found a good place to start because I have so much to do and am overwhelmed! So I've been trying to dig through my pictures to find inspiration, and I think I'm a more chronologically-inclined scrapper than I care to admit! I can't wait for the day when I don't have the overwhelming feelings I do now and can just enjoy the process. I have my idea binder, some idea books, but I'm looking for something a bit more concrete...although to be fair to myself, am I really expecting something to just hit me upside the head one day, saying "Here you go, scrap away!"???

4. UGGGHHH...it's tax time. Normally I'm excited because we are supposed to get SOME $ back, but it's not looking like it so far...although this is one case I truly hope I am counting my chickens first, because we have only been getting 5% federal taxes taken out of our check and that's NOT GOOD!!! So we're hoping that there have been mistakes made somewhere else besides our W4s....

5. I had 2 very successful open houses yesterday, and I'm so excited about them! Who knows if they could turn into buyers, but I always have fun meeting new people and that's one of my favorite parts about myself...I can get along with strangers very well!

6. I am enjoying happy hour on the CKMB tonight, however...I don't have to work from home tonight doing a bunch of random stuff for work, and it's been a lot of fun answering some of the questions!

7. Hopefully John gives me a raise on my sold listings bonuses...that would help a ton! Especially if we have to pay the government a crapload of money in the next few months...well, there goes our Branson trip : ( That is what makes me so sad.

8. St. Louis is NOT in a housing slump! STL County had a 2% sales increase in 2007, while the rest of the surrounding area was down....STL City wasn't too bad, either, although it did drop. So if you're in STL or know someone moving here, don't despair! What you hear happening around the country via the national media is not representative of all cities/areas...do some research and you'll see I'm right! In 2007, St. Louis was the #5 place in the country to sell a house! And I should know...we had 3 properties on the market for less than a week when we got a contract on them! So if your house is priced correctly, you have the right motivations for selling it, and it is in great condition, it WILL sell quickly for top dollar!

I am exhausted. I have had one day off since Christmas and luckily, John let me have tomorrow off. We have been so busy at work between finishing out our closings, getting ready for the new year, and the wedding show that was all last weekend. Then this week, catching up from last week's time spent prepping for the wedding show.
So tomorrow I'm going to have a "Jamie Day". I am going to Archivers, For Keeps Sake, Target, and who knows where else, getting some supplies to finish Brittani's pregnancy journal (my buyer's agent who told me last week she is pregnant!). I also need to finish my thank you cards from my bday and Christmas, I need to send out my RAK that I have not even been able to shop for, and I need to finish a short real estate course I am required to take. So in the next few days I will be very busy, and also on Saturday we are probably going to join the gym!
I need to lose weight....seriously! My sister is getting married in September, we have to have our bridesmaid dresses ordered by April, and I need to lose some weight before I can even order my dress so I can get the appropriate measurements. But I know my body, and once I start becoming active again, I should begin losing weight pretty quickly...I didn't say easily, but probably quickly like I used to. This probably doesn't make sense to anyone but me : (

And 2008 isn't going quite as I hoped so far, but I say, all it can do is look up. It really hasn't been THAT bad, it's just been super stressful and I've been so stressed out that it's affecting my body and literally has been a pain in the neck.

So I'm just going to chill this weekend. I get 2 days off and I am seriously going to cherish them. Oh, yeah...and the laundry....about that....I should probably jump on it....