My friend put up a very long, insightful post about 2008 being a very tough year for her as she sent most of it struggling in various therapy classes to gain control over her eating disorder. It was very revealing and helped a lot of us understand her better, especially since we weren’t really sure how to help her.

My 2008 wasn’t quite as challenging or life-changing as hers, but it was a year that made me question a lot of things in my life and why nothing was falling into place. I think the transition out of college into the “real world” has finally hit me.

I hope 2009 is a much better year for her, me, and everyone else who felt that 2008 wasn’t their year…

Today is my first day back to work from our small holiday break and, of course, I am not glad to be back. The holiday break was too short and too fun and I didn’t want it to end!

I have work to do, but I can’t seem to get motivated enough to breeze through them. Good thing I’m not too busy or nothing will get done! I just keep yawning and yawning.

Anyhoo, so my coworker and I are discussing napping under our desks and it reminded me of an article I read in Newsweek several months ago about designated nap areas that some companies have started putting up.

I definitely wish we had one of those “sleeping pods”! Though I could always just sleep under the desk like an old officemate used to do… but he got fired so maybe not so much….

I got this from my friend who lives in Pa. and I thought I’d pass it along:

This little girl lives down the road from me. I wanted to share the below with all of you. Many of the Volunteer Fire Companies in the area including Rothsville will be delivering cards to this young girl on Thursday evening. If you would like to send her cards her address is at the bottom of this email. Please feel free to cross post and share with your prayer groups and your Churches. thanks!!

This is the story of a 5-yr old Lititz girl, Hannah Garman, who was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a rare and incurable brain tumor. She has been given 12 weeks to live and is currently in her 7th week. She was going to be the flower girl at a wedding in May, but was diagnosed a week after we asked her to be the flower girl. This is especially sad because her mother died 2 yrs ago from breast cancer.

Right now she has lost most of her motor skills. She is confined to bed and cannot really do anything or play with the gifts she is getting from people, but she LOVES getting cards - she has gotten so many from people she does not know and just loves to have grandma read about the people who send them and see their pictures and is so proud of all her cards. Her room is just filled with cards.

When asked what she wants for Christmas she said she wants to see how many Christmas cards she can get. Many people have passed this wish along to their churches, prayer groups, friends and family. There are school groups where children are making her cards. People are including pictures so she can see who it is that is sending her the card.

If you would like to help with her wish, you can send a card to her at:

Hannah Garman
704 Orchard Rd
Lititz, PA 17543

THANKS! Feel free to pass this along to your own prayer group, church, school, etc. Let’s see if we can have the cards coming in big postal bags for her this Christmas, since it will be her last holiday.