Sunday: Snow

We woke up to a lot of snow. And since we're not sure it's going to melt, we had to shovel it. Well, we only shoveled half the driveway because we don't really use the other half. But then Ben slipped and hurt his back stabilizing himself. :( So we didn't go to church. But even though I know we need to find a church family the whole search has been a little disheartening and I wasn't really all that sad.

But I did make chex mix (thanks to Liz and Nathan for prompting me to do so). We also watched "blood diamond" which was good but really sad. I can't imagine going into villages and killing everyone. It just blows my mind.

Amtrak

Sigh. I was hoping that Amtrak might be a feasible option to go home sometimes. However, it takes over 24 hours to get to Holland because of a huge (12 hour) layover in Chicago. :(

Saturday: clean garage

Today we relaxed a lot and cleaned the garage. There were a few boxes that still need to be dealt with and a lot of stuff that needed to be moved to the basement. (We won't talk about how neat or not neat the basement is right now.) Two of the boxes with misc. stuff got moved to the living room so they wouldn't be forgotten about. One has been emptied onto the kitchen counter, which means we only have one more box to deal with. We don't have all the boxes empty yet, but that is due to a lack of furniture right now.

In other news, Flurry finished her Thanksgiving leftovers today. She was kind of sad.

Friday: code finished and BOOM

Well, I think I finished my code today. I'm going to start training people on it next week, so we'll see how that goes and what other bugs arise. I'm still excited about it though, and everyone else seems to be too.

This evening we went to downtown Owego for their Christmas celebration, or whatever they call it. Unfortanetly, it felt bitterly cold. We listened to a band for a bit, then there was talking and we didn't really care about that. Directly after that they were going to "turn the lights on," which is what we were waiting around for. Well, we decided that we could watch them tun on the lights from next to the restaurant too, so we started walking. The lights turned on before we got to the restaurant, so that was nice. The place was really busy, but the waiter was nice. And it only took 30 minutes to get our food. This really ended up being perfect because by the time we were done the fireworks had just started. I enjoyed them more than I've enjoyed fireworks in a while, but it was a bit hard on the neck and still really cold.

It's sad how tired work makes you...it kind of feels like there's no time to do anything but work and sleep and just a little bit more, but never enough more time.

Today was fun. I'm working on a program for the operators on the manufacturing floor and its almost done. I need to label some stuff and make it more multi-user friendly. But its going well and everyone's excited about it. And then, suddendly it at 6:15 and time to go home.

Monday: Happy Birthday Ben

Happy Birthday Ben! In Pat's words, 'he's now closer to 30 than to 20!'

In other sad news, it isn't snowing yet.

Sunday: Ben's pre-birthday

Hmm, so last night I went to bed early because I was dizzy. I've been dizzy several times in the past several months, so I'm kind of wondering if this is a problem.

Anyway, we went to church this morning and decided it wasn't the church for us. The sermon was good, but...I don't know, just not what we were looking for.

We celebrated Ben's birthday this evening by going out to Texas Roadhouse with Dusty and Laura and then to our house for pie. Ben got his gifts from me. More pictures are here