Those sound like fantabulous gifts!

Some of you may remember me mentioning my SiL? The one who hasn't seen any of our family for almost a year? The deeply religious Catholic one who hasn't even managed to come with my brother an hour away to visit my mom, who just had, oh, half a lung removed due to cancer? Yeah, that one. She just sent my Jewish husband and atheist self a Christmas card which wished us "more Jesus in your life." Really? REALLY?

But the office has a mandatory shut down for the entire week and all employees have to take the rest of those days as PTO, whether you want to or not

OK, wow, that is definitely not cool at all.

I am shocked at being able to carry that much PTO! Wow. My last company we could only carry 40 hours. At this one it's something like 120 hours? But it works for me, because I"m going to take some time in January and will still have time left. But like Sail, working from home helps--I'm rarely taking time off unless it's actual vacation.

Scrappy, was that just her stock Xmas card she sent to everyone? I would prefer that to thinking she was proselytizing.

They cap our leave at 200 hours (25 days), but that includes just vacation/personal days, since sick days aren't really counted.

We can only carry over 40 hours each year, although we are allowed to "buy" an extra week of vacation, which is nice. If you don't use it, you can sell it back to the company and get your money back. A lot of people use that as their Christmas money.

Matchmaking update: First dinner party is set. Jan 4th. About 10 min drive from work. Alas, it's 8pm, so, work late? Eh. We shall see.

Sister update: She leaves in the morning. It's been great seeing her. Will miss her. But happy to see her go. It's little things. Like, my fridge full of styrofoam left overs from restaurants. And me asking when she wants to do left overs, only to learn this afternoon, she doesn't eat left overs. Um. So why did you keep getting boxes from the restaurants?? Whatev. I'll have a full trash tomorrow. It's family. Whatcha going to do.

She just sent my Jewish husband and atheist self a Christmas card which wished us "more Jesus in your life." Really? REALLY?

Send her a reply saying that sending threatening letters through the mail is a federal offence.

She just sent my Jewish husband and atheist self a Christmas card which wished us "more Jesus in your life." Really? REALLY?

Awww, isn't that special. I'm going to be charitable and chalk it up to cluelessness. I do have to apologize for bursting out laughing, because it kinda cracked me up.

We went for a long boat ride through Fort Lauderdale last night to check out the decorations. I've seen better, but the weather was awesome. Next time we'll check out the displays to the north through Boca Raton.

She just sent my Jewish husband and atheist self a Christmas card which wished us "more Jesus in your life."

Honey, you can keep the Jesus. You need it more.

Scrappy, was that just her stock Xmas card she sent to everyone?

I only saw the card she sent my mom, which was different. But maybe everyone else got the Moar Jesus 4 You card.