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12-17-2007

Travelodge, a British hotel chain, is promising a free night’s stay to couples named Mary and Joseph.

"The 'gift' of a free night's stay is to make up for the hotel industry not having any rooms left on Christmas Eve over 2,000 years ago when the original 'Mary and Joseph' had to settle for the night in a stable," the company says on its Web site.

The offer is good at any of the chain’s 322 hotels in the United Kingdom. Any couple able to show proof of identity will receive one free night in a family room. The offer is good from Christmas Eve to Jan. 5.

"We've had a lot of interest," hotel spokeswoman Shakila Ahmed told CNN. "I think people like the fact that it resonates with the Nativity story at a time when the actual meaning of Christmas often becomes forgotten in festive overkill."

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I'm at work, thinking I should really wear my retainer at night, my teeth are starting to get misaligned again ><

Everybody is being really supportive to me, and I'm thinking about spending a night or two at my mom's, probably the sooner the better...

I'm just fatigued lately, the stress and not being able to sleep really sucks, when I start to fall asleep I have a coughing fit because Cal gave me his throat infection :(:(

And another thing I'm stressed about, Cal has a version of leukoplakia on his tongue (look it up, it's thoroughly gross, but very interesting) and the doctor tested it and found out it's pre-cancerous ...:(  Cal is going to get cough drops, medicated to kill the lesion...eww, lol

Other than that, my life is pretty stable..I'm still very sad I can't go to school this quarter, but I needed a break off of it anyway, then this way I'll be able to save up money for next quarter and help to do my part in paying the credit card down :):)

A lot of my stress has been revolving around money, I can't wait till that goes away, Joe moving in wil remove a lot of the financial stress, but I don't know how Cal will take it, we shall see...always :)