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Wow what a weekend, it sure was busy. Friday night Jay and I went out to get dinner and then watched the movie Crash at home. Man, talk about an important film. It really focuses on the racial sterotypes of several different groups. There was one part that had me crying out of control. I haven't seen a movie that moving in a long time.
Saturday night we went up to Alderwood Mall to hear my Dad play Christmas music with his band. He way so excited about it. Wow has the mall changed since I was there last. I ran into Bree and Steve with their little boy Collin. I was thinking about how glad I am to be out of the area so that I don't run into people all the time. I'm just not up for the "Oh so what have you been up to" talk all the time. I seem to have a knack for running into people cause it happens almost every time I go up there. It's fun but at the same time I'd rather just skip it.
We took my parents to The Rock for dinner and had a good time. I had one of their electric teas and god drunk off of one! I can be such a light weight sometimes. When we left Jay told me I was really talkative. I also went off about all the Bush supporters in Puyallup and he elbowed me. I guess I forgot who I was talking to.
When we got home that night we found Tucker has unwrapped and eaten a big box of Toblerone Truffles I bought for Jay. Wrappers were strewn all over his favorite places. In total we found 24 wrappers! I'm really starting to think the whole Dog and Chocolate thing is crock becuase he wasn't even sick. This is about the 3rd or 4th time he's gotten into chocolate in large quanities.
On Sunday we had my Mom's side of the family over for Christmas. Now Ian and the twins square off on the complex game of opening their gifts. Ian's was awesome this year. There was the usual series of puzzles and clues leading up to the gift. The last part was great. He had a hand made jigsaw style puzzle made out of copper. It had a message etched into it with half of a clue and they had to flip the completed puzzle over to read the other half of the message on the back side. It ended up being a gift card sandwiched between the sheets of metal that was the base of the puzzle. It was a shame they had to destroy it because it was so cool. Ian also showed me his latest hemet, the Viking. I'll post some pictures under the cut. Sorry but they are large, no photo editor here at work.
It's a sad day at work, I guess everyone got their walking papers last Friday. Me and my bosses position were the only ones they were keeping out of the entire department, so I made a good choice to leave when I did. My old department also found out that none of them will be staying. I feel the worst for my teammate Shannon who wanted to stay. It has to be a slap in the face to hire for my position but lay her off because she's remote. I really feel for her.
This is the viking helmet and yes those are real horns. Ian bought them on Ebay.
Here is a cube of stainless steel rings, he joined each one of these into the box pattern, it is pretty heavy.
Peter & Matthew working on the Puzzle Ian made.
Nathan's first beer, It was empty of course!
Saturday night we went up to Alderwood Mall to hear my Dad play Christmas music with his band. He way so excited about it. Wow has the mall changed since I was there last. I ran into Bree and Steve with their little boy Collin. I was thinking about how glad I am to be out of the area so that I don't run into people all the time. I'm just not up for the "Oh so what have you been up to" talk all the time. I seem to have a knack for running into people cause it happens almost every time I go up there. It's fun but at the same time I'd rather just skip it.
We took my parents to The Rock for dinner and had a good time. I had one of their electric teas and god drunk off of one! I can be such a light weight sometimes. When we left Jay told me I was really talkative. I also went off about all the Bush supporters in Puyallup and he elbowed me. I guess I forgot who I was talking to.
When we got home that night we found Tucker has unwrapped and eaten a big box of Toblerone Truffles I bought for Jay. Wrappers were strewn all over his favorite places. In total we found 24 wrappers! I'm really starting to think the whole Dog and Chocolate thing is crock becuase he wasn't even sick. This is about the 3rd or 4th time he's gotten into chocolate in large quanities.
On Sunday we had my Mom's side of the family over for Christmas. Now Ian and the twins square off on the complex game of opening their gifts. Ian's was awesome this year. There was the usual series of puzzles and clues leading up to the gift. The last part was great. He had a hand made jigsaw style puzzle made out of copper. It had a message etched into it with half of a clue and they had to flip the completed puzzle over to read the other half of the message on the back side. It ended up being a gift card sandwiched between the sheets of metal that was the base of the puzzle. It was a shame they had to destroy it because it was so cool. Ian also showed me his latest hemet, the Viking. I'll post some pictures under the cut. Sorry but they are large, no photo editor here at work.
It's a sad day at work, I guess everyone got their walking papers last Friday. Me and my bosses position were the only ones they were keeping out of the entire department, so I made a good choice to leave when I did. My old department also found out that none of them will be staying. I feel the worst for my teammate Shannon who wanted to stay. It has to be a slap in the face to hire for my position but lay her off because she's remote. I really feel for her.
This is the viking helmet and yes those are real horns. Ian bought them on Ebay.
Here is a cube of stainless steel rings, he joined each one of these into the box pattern, it is pretty heavy.
Peter & Matthew working on the Puzzle Ian made.
Nathan's first beer, It was empty of course!