Stream of Consiousness

1. After much physical therapy for my knee, the doc has told me I shouldn't do sports or exercises that stress it. Therefore, I will not be running...ever...again. :( But hey, swimming is a very good way to get fit and that it quite easy on the joints so I'll have to get back into that.

2. Yay! The Giants are going to the Super Bowl! The Pats really need to get their asses handed to them and since the Giants were so close to doing it, they are still the team with the best chance of finishing the job.

3. I have today off from work! I think I'll go out and use all the gift cards I got for Christmas. What's better than free stuff?

4. Wouldn't you think the better way to spend the day would be to combine #1 and #3 and go swimming? Probably. Ah well, the seed has been planted, but whether it germinates is a different story.

Outside My Window Today

You can't see, but it's snowing, too! So pretty!

The Holidays are Officially Over

I finally put away all the Christmas decor last Sunday.  Chris was watching some monumental marathon of a miniseries (Shaka Zulu - and did you catch that sweet alliteration??) so I ended up doing it mostly myself.  He did help carry things to the basement when I was done, though, so he gets brownie points for that.


It seemed to go up a lot slower than taking it down.  I guess because when you are putting it up you are examining the ornaments for the tree and reminiscing about times past, yadda, yadda, yadda.  Then when you take it down you don't care so much about the revelry.


This year was especially different because we finally poured through all the ornaments we inherited from Chris' mom.  She had two solid boxes of ornaments that were about 18" x 24" x 12" and each housed at least two levels of ornaments.  I think we had about a quarter of that on our own.  Needless to say it was quite fun looking thru all the memories of Chris' family and having him tell stories about different ones.  There were some from the 1940s!  That Sherri sure knew how to preserve her ornaments, by gosh.  And man did our tree look lovely.  Last year it was a bit sparce, but THIS year we had so many that we didn't even get to put all of the ornaments up!  I'm going to have to institute a rotating stock policy to make sure all get fair play.


But now that everything is put away, I finally have my whole living room to myself again for the first time in almost a year!  Due to the storage room build-out, the room had been the dumping ground for all the stuff that was going into the storage room (and then some).  Once that project was finished (11 months later...) then it was Christmas time and the tree went up in the place where all the stuff was.  Now the tree is down and the room looks so barren, but I'm quite happy with that because of what it took to get to this point.

New Year's Resolution: One-a-Day

Yeah, right...I'm already 10 days behind.  We'll see how this goes.  I've never been one of those mad journalists who writes everything down and haven't ever really felt a need for it, but there are a couple of you out there who actually read this thing and I know how frustrating it can be to check for updates only to find there are none.

I had a flicker of an idea to write about earlier today, but of course, the flicker was just that and my mind has gone blank.  In lieu of awe-inspiring prose, here is a picture (heck, here's two!):

#1: Prince maxing and relaxing in his bed.  I just had to capture this because it's the first time I've ever seen him lay like this.  It was too human to ignore with that paw hanging out there!

#2: My mom's dog, Louie, dressed up for Christmas.  He looks damned silly if you ask me (but I suppose you didn't, so there you have it).  Dressing up animals should be against the law.  This isn't an entire outfit, so it's not all THAT bad, but still ridiculous in my book.

Thanks for stopping by.  If I remember to keep my resolution, you should have a new post tomorrow.

Happy reading!