Snow snow snow!

Cold and snowy day out here, did have a nice evening last night with R.

Planning on watching the BC Bowl game tonight and playing some World of Warcraft.

Not a lot to report other than I got my haircut today and I like how it turned out.

Looking forward to Sunday (taking N&J to see the Star Wars exhibits at Museum of Science and Industry).

Holiday

Another Christmas in the books. It was a fairly quiet one this year, N&J like the Red Sox Monopoly game, and we also watched the Pirates of the Carribean dvd (they said it was not too scary, which is good). N. made me a Santa decoration and J. amde me a lithograph of a Christmas tree, really beautiful things, and they make me smile thinking about them!! I got them both littl stuffed animal penguins and they liked them a lot.

In other news, I ran yesterday on my birthday (two more years 'til the big four-oh), it felt pretty good, I might try again today or tomorrow. I tried to go see the new Juno movie but it was sold out.

Sunday afternoon will be fun- I am taking N&J to the museum to see the Star Wars exhibit and they have 80 actual props from the movies, we are hoping to see Yoda!! :)

It feels very weird to be back at work after getting to sleep late and enjoy the last few days. I am on the verge of level 11 in WOW which is cool, and I have been reading a bit lately too.

Holiday break starts soon

Last day of work, Friday, then have next 5 days off- weekend, Monday (Christmas Eve), Tuesday (Christmas), and Wednesday(my 38th birthday).

I have a few deliveries I need to pick up (hopefully it is Christmas presents sent my way), and I might do laundry tonight, also likely will play W of W!!!

I have had a dry cough for almost a month now, if it does not go away soon I am afraid I am going to need to visit my doctor.

Thursday Fun!

Tonight:

Sushi and "I Am Legend"!!! :)

tell it Jimmy!

"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history." -- Former President Jimmy Carter in an interview in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper.

"Once"

Well I watched the dvd "Once" yesterday when I got home from work....and I was so surprised by the sheer raw emotion of the film that I watched it a second time before going to sleep.

The lead character is Glen Hansard the lead singer from the Irish band the Frames, and he was amazing. Made me recall taking N&J to see the Frames at Lollapalloza in Grant Park two summers ago.

Seriously, there are some scenes in this movie that were so powerful I honestly was blown away. Highly recommended and my Mom evidently got me the motion picture soundtrack cd for my birthday, so woo-hoo!!! :)

W.O.W.

I think I am addicted to playing "World of Warcraft". :)

the Call of the Wild

I want to see this movie:

"Retraces the travels of Chris McCandless, a 24-year-old "aesthetic voyager" who starved to death in the Alaska wilderness in 1992. Over the course of his journey, through thirty U.S. states, two Canadian provinces and Mexico, filmmaker Ron Lamothe encounters an entire cast of McCandless-inspired characters--some who knew Chris, some who didn't, some who respect him, others who disparage him, all of whom become part of a larger non-fiction mosaic. In Alaska, following in McCandless's footsteps all the way to the abandoned bus where he died, the film uncovers never-before-seen evidence that sheds new light on the case, and directly contradicts both best-selling author Jon Krakauer's ("Into the Wild") interpretation of McCandless's death and that of Sean Penn's film "Into the Wild". "

Good Luck

Last Friday December 14th was a lucky and good day. I actually won a prize ($25 gift card to a local restaurant) at our company Christmas party, I got to visit with B, my sister J got us free tickets to go see Duran Duran, and I even got to see lots of friends I had not seen in ages( though briefly as it was before the concert) at a Christmas party!

Duran Duran was great as usual, those guys never seem to grow older!!


Then the weekend was great with N&J, we watched the new Harry Potter dvd (it was just ok), and we did lots of "projects", I ahd them draw Christmas cards, do math problems, and read books for school.

In other great news, the SQL class is finally over, no word yet on the final grade though will find out soon.

Weekend

Had another fun weekend with N&J, we saw the Bee Movie starring Jerry Seinfeld, J and I liked it, but N thought it was a bit slow. Then I took them out for caesar slads and J also had her favorite soup, cream of broccoli. It has been terribly cold here, with lots of ice storms, constantly ice is freezing my car windshield, it is very annoying. It is times like this I wish I worked from home!

So trying to stay warm and figure out how to do some runs, might need to pause from running until it warms up again.

Travels with Nicki

I think all of you know how much I hate my job. So it was a nice diversion when it turned out I had to watch my daughter Nicki all of yesterday. She was supposedly sick though a trip to her doctor proved she is fine, just tired and a slight cough. We did take it easy for most of the day and even had a nap but we also did small grocery shopping trip and when I asked her what she wanted to do she had two things that were important to her: taking a walk in the snow and going to the Apple computer store, we did both. It was a lot of fun, we did homework and read stories later too. It had been longer than I can remember since I had time with just one instead of two.

Weekend

It was quite an intriguing weekend on many fronts. After church on Sunday we had "brekafast with Santa", the girls immediately told me it was not the real Santa, because J. said he had on brown shoes not his Santa boots. They did arts and crafts, N, Made me a Xmas card with a gingerbread man on it, and J. made me a gingerbread man on a popsicle stick, and she wrote her name on the stick. It looks beautiful. She also made an amazing angel.

Downloaded the ten day free trial for World of Warcraft and am trying not to spend too many hours on it, it is definitely an on-line version of Dungeons & Dragons, very cool and yes very addictive.

Tonight is the last SQL class so I am very relieved about that. Probably going to take C++ Data Structures next.

Oh! And the big news for me was Sunday I hopped on the treadmill and did a bit of running, first time since the Chicago Marathon way back on what??? October 7th? I decided it is time to stop talking and worrying about being a fatass and just get my body moving. When I run a lot I can eat a bit more, just need to try and eat healthier. And I drank tons of cold ice water all weekend. ANd N&J eat lots of apples now, it is cool.

As far as reading I am still slowly going through a bunch of Carl Hiaasen novels, good stuff.