I'm free! No work until January 4. What will I do with myself, I wonder ( Read more... )

Has anyone noticed how perfectly the winter holidays fall this year? It couldn't be better: December 24-25 are a Thursday/Friday combination, so there is a 4-day weekend. The following week, January 1 is a Friday so that's a 3-day weekend. Not one to let an opportunity like this pass me by, I requested off Monday, December 28 through Thursday, ( Read more... )

Christmas at our place was a fantastic success!! We were so pleased ( Read more... )

Jonas got his car back today, and it looks PERFECT. I only got to see it in the dark, so I'll have to take a closer look during daytime, but it looks like they did a great job. You would hardly know any work was done at all on it! He is super-thrilled to have it back, of course. The rental was a Dodge Neon which, despite being a new car, was ( Read more... )

I finally got Railroad Tycoon 3 installed last night -- I got it nearly a week ago for my birthday but just hadn't made time to try it out. I was a huge fan of RRT2. So far it is pretty neat, although I'm still trying to figure out how the supply and demand engine works -- rather, whether there is any demand. There must be, but I haven't seen it ( Read more... )

I'm not ready for Christmas. This is not unusual, however. I do all my Christmas shopping the week before Christmas. So far I haven't bought anyone anything, but I still have 7 days. I don't have very many people to buy for (just my parents and my sister), but every year I feel more and more like we are just going through the motions. Dad doesn't ( Read more... )

I hereby swear that this year I am going to send Christmas cards. I skipped it altogether last year, and then felt guilty every time I received one from someone else. So when I got off work tonight at 9:00pm I asked Jonas to meet me at Target to pick some out. Why should he have to be there? Last time I picked out cards he felt they were too ( Read more... )

My hair hurts. It sounds odd, but anyone who's experienced "sore hair" would know what I mean. If you nearly always wear your hair hanging down and then one day decide to pull it up into a barrette or ponytail, by the end of the day your hair follicles can be extremely sore from being pulled in a direction they're not used to. This mostly applies ( Read more... )

I'm determined to have some holiday spirit this year. Last year we didn't even put up the tree. I guess the whole thing took me by surprise and seemed like it was going to be all over too soon to even be worth decorating for ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas! We slept in for a while and then after I nagged a little Jonas started cooking the rice pudding he'd planned to make to bring to Dad's. We left here a little before 1:30pm and headed out to Dad's in Buffalo ( Read more... )