Happy New Year, everybody!!!
Hope you had a
great holiday.
Mine was awesome. Totally awesome. Highlights (in no particular order):
- Holiday cards. I got a ton of them. I only have two favorites
though...
One is from the Morning Snowman. The other is
from Vanessa
-- my all-time favorite Brazilian Java developer who also happens to be
a blog reader. I was THRILLED to get cards from both of these stellar
individuals. Gonna treasure those. Might just put them up on the
bulletin board so that I can look at them all year round.
- My favorite Christmas present was a book that was given to me by
the love-of-my-life, father of my children and most spectacular man to
walk the face of the earth. It's non-fiction and it has the words "Good
Girl's Guide" in it. Serious page-turner.
- So we've got three kids ages 6 and under. It's our jobs to create
magic for them at Christmas time. It worked. We all had so much fun.
- I made a ton of New Year's resolutions. I've already broken one
of them. But that's good because it sort of takes the pressure
off. The goal is to get to the summer solstice with at least six
resolutions in tact. btw... the New Year's resolutions I made on
Thanksgiving (remember how I let you in on my
little secret)... those are still going strong.
OK. So that concludes all the happy-go-lucky stuff.
On a serious note, the humanitarian crisis created by the tsunamis in
southeast Asia weighs so heavy on me. I can't even fully comprehend the
scope of this tragedy.
You guys, can I just tell you how proud I was when I logged on this
morning and went to
sun.com and I saw
this banner...
It makes me really proud to work here.
Sun is matching contributions employees make to the relief efforts,
btw. And that's nothing new. For as long as I can remember, Sun has
been matching contributions that employees make to charitable
organizations.
So your big take-aways today are:
1. Please consider
giving to the
humanitarian relief effort.
2. If your employer doesn't match your charitable donations, maybe it's
time to think about getting
one who does.
mary
