Work, Work, Work...

I have a lot of work related news to report, it feels like, so I thought I'd do a blog post about it...
So, Tommy recently got a new job at Northstar Alarm Services. Basically, he calls/emails/and sends letters to people who are behind on their payments and tells them to PAY UP! Okay, maybe that's not exactly what he tells them, but basically. He likes it a LOT more than his job in American Fork and it's WAY closer (we use to have to fill up the car every week and a half if we were lucky, now we can go three weeks!). He has really been liking it there and they love him there!! Proud wifey moment: One of Tommy's coworkers said to me "We always have to work really hard when Tommy gets there so that he doesn't show us all up, but then when he leaves we can slack off." haha! Well, they won't have a lot of slack-off time anymore because Tommy's boss increased his hours :)
Work for me has also been pretty eventful...I got promoted to a captain in catering, I got a job writing articles for Orange Soda, Inc. (a marketing company), I got a job cleaning a condo once a week, and I just got home from a job interview at Shirley's Bakery! The Orange Soda job is probably the most exciting because it's in my field, but I can work from home and work whenever I have time! It's great! And it will look great on my resume when I look for an editing job. The cleaning job is just a nice side job that I'm doing for a friend of ours. He just bought a condo and wants to keep it nice so that he can rent it out and make money and whatever, but I like it because I get payed $13 an hour to do what I do at home for free! I'm also excited for the Shirley's job because catering has been s-l-o-w the last couple of weeks, so if I get the job at Shirley's than I'll probably quit catering. Which will be a little sad since I've worked there for two and a half years, but then also not very sad because I've worked there for two and a half years (do you get what I did there? funny, right?).
Anyway..those are our jobs!! Yay us!

Christmas Break

The last three weeks have been super eventful for the McLaughlins!! We went up to Malta for Christmas Eve and Christmas day to celebrate with my sisters and my dad. It was so exciting to shop for Tommy; I think this year was the most excited I've been to see someone open the presents I picked out for them! I also think this was the first year in a long time that I've had trouble sleeping the night before Christmas because of excitement...Tommy and I woke up at about 5:30 and played Bejeweled until Thomas woke up at 7:30. On Christmas day Tommy went snowmobiling with all of the guys and he loved it! He bragged to everyone about it all break.
When we got back to Provo, we had one day off before Tommy's family came into town. They were here for a full week which we filled with yummy food, movies, shopping, and sledding. On New Year's day we went sledding and Kati sledded into one of those long sprinklers they use on farms and got a concussion :( Poor Kati was super shocked and really worried they would never be able to repair her chipped tooth! We got to see them the next evening though and, even though we had to wheel her in a wheelchair, she was in great spirits.
We also hung out with Jenny and Ryan a lot over the break. We all went and played laser tag, made some dinners together, went hot tubing, and went shooting. Tommy was so excited all week to go shoot Ryan's guns and he absolutely loved it; he already wants to go again!

And that was our Christmas break!!