Okay, so we've all had times in our lives that kind of suck, yeah?
November contained a day kind of like that for me. The 4th of November, actually. It started out good enough. I was busy at work when one of the partners pulled me into his office. He cut straight to the chase:
"Jason, this is a termination meeting."
I was floored. I hadn't been laid off since right after 9/11 decimated my former employer's New York City headquarters. My boss did a very good job at comforting me and telling me that I wasn't being fired, but laid off. See, I worked at a Construction Law firm. In Las Vegas. During the worst economic downturn in Las Vegas' history.
My LSAT-taking friends will be able to follow the logical reasoning that's about to come up.
I worked at a Construction Law firm. If the economy is good, people are building stuff. If people are building stuff, they are hiring subcontractors. If they hire subcontractors, sometimes the subcontractors don't get paid. If the subcontractors don't get paid, they hire attorneys. If they hire attorneys, they would usually pick our firm. If they pick our firm, I get enough work to justify my employment. I did not get enough work to justify my employment.
So yeah, that hurt a bit. But it was all for the best. I got to hang out with my family, study for the LSAT (more on that in probably next "month's" post. Epic fail.) and just generally chill out for the first time since I graduated high school. PLUS I get to collect unemployment. I figured I have paid into the system for the past 12 or so years, so now I get to reap all the benefits.
But enough about me.
We discovered something REALLY cool about November...
No one takes their kids to see Santa.
Seriously. The opportunities abound but people refuse to take advantage of them. They'd much rather wait until right before Christmas and spend 87 hours in line to see a Santa who may or may not have their kids' best interest at heart.
But not us. We took our kiddos to see not one, but TWO Santas.
(For those of you who have children who can read and still believe in Santa, that should read "We took our kiddos to see Santa not once, but TWICE")
Once at the Santa's Village at Bass Pro Shops at Silverton and once at the Cactus Garden at Ethel M's... we waited a total of 5 minutes combined for both.
Because we're awesome.
And because people don't realize Santa is just as likely to get you a gift if you ask for it in mid-November than if you ask in late December.
Also, our girls were not terrified of Santa. This wasn't a shock as far as Kate went, but Reagan was like, 10 months old and in the middle of her stranger danger phase. Yet she didn't freak out. I wouldn't say she LOVED Santa, but she didn't scream.
Here's the proof.
And of course other fun stuff like Thanksgiving happened, but we got zero pictures of all that. I know, I know, bad blogger.As a way to make it up to you all, here's a picture of Reagan being naughty.
Ciao, suckers! See you all in December,
