Christmas is over with, the endless loop of Christmas music on the radio is done, and life slowly returns to normal.
I think we’ve definitely made our contribution to the economy this holiday season. The last couple of months worth of credit card payments have all been pretty much undone with our holiday spending. That means my initial target date for getting one of our credit cards paid off is pushed back a few months. Well, at least we had fun with it 🙂
All in all, it was a good Christmas this year. Less drama this year (at least I think so…we were mostly busy with cooking). Smaller group over for Christmas this year, which made for a nicer event. Got some strange gifts though. Don’t know what the heck we’re going to do with a 2′ tall wooden Nutcracker doll.
Hope all of you reading had as pleasant a Christmas as we did!
Away we go
Getting stuff ready to load up into the car so we can head off to the in-laws for the holidays. Holidays are always an interesting time at the in-laws. There’s usually some kind of silliness or drama going on. Our role is mostly as the family caterer, which is just fine by us because it keeps us out of the way, and we can boss people around in the kitchen. Mostly we’re telling people to get out of the kitchen though (at least while we’re working in it).
A few years ago, the annual family gatherings (Thanksgiving and Christmas) kept growing and growing, until one year we were confronted with cooking for 40 people, when we only expected 25. 40 pounds of turkey disappeared with no leftovers in sight. After that, we drew the line and told the family we weren’t cooking for that many people anymore. The next Thanksgiving they were on their own while we took in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in New York City (a very fun event, but many many people to deal with). Since then, the family gatherings have been much smaller and much more enjoyable.
So, I wonder what will happen this year…we’re only expecting 14 or so for Christmas dinner.
Petition for Coffee Crisp in the US!
Oh, this is delightful! Stumbled on this petition site to bring Coffee Crisp to the US. There are reports of Coffee Crisp sitings, news articles about the effort, and interesting stories about Coffee Crisp in peoples’ lives. Sign the petition!
Friday Five, late but what the heck
Yeah, it’s not Friday. Hey, I was on vacation on Friday.
Don’t know if I can come up with 5 for all of these. I’ll just list what I think of.
1. List your five favorite beverages.
Coke, Dad’s Root Beer, orange juice, Big Rock Traditional Ale, Newcastle Brown Ale
2. List your five favorite websites.
In no particular order,
Slashdot.org
User Friendly
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
Calvin and Hobbes
Science Daily
3. List your five favorite snack foods.
Corn nuts
M&Ms
Coffee Crisp
Old Dutch Ketchup potato chips
Chips Ahoy
4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
Hmm, don’t really play too many board or card games anymore…
Risk
Magic: The Gathering
5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.
Unreal Tournament 2003
AD&D
Palladium
GURPS
Nethack
MT style sheets
Oooh, now here’s a promising site. Movable Style is a collection of different style sheets that can be used to customize the look of a Movable Type blog. There are the default styles, and a few interesting looking ones. I’ll have to keep an eye on this one.