Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

Today was a very nice day...we opened presents, ate a lot, played in the pool, took a walk.

Christmas Eve - Michigan Christmas

Hello! Well, we had a wonderful time in Michigan spending time with my family. We did a lot of relaxing and reading, but it was also just nice to see everyone.

Some highlights...
~I got to see Hanneke and Aunt C.
~Nathan and Liz made Pad Thai for dinner
~I finally got to give Dad the blanket that I've been working on forever.
~The power was out for five hours. Luckily they have a fire-place type thing.
~We managed to get all our flights to Florida even though the power was out at airport 1 and we had a 39 minute layover. We had to run (again), but we made it.

More pictures are here.

Thursday: We made it!

We made it to Michigan without any problems. The first flight was late, but we had a long lay-over so it didn't really matter.

Yay family!

Poll

Oh! My poll finally finished. There was a big surge at the end. 16 people do (or don't) read it. I'll admit...that is a lot more than I was expecting. Sweet.

Wednesday: Last work day

Ah, the last day of work. It consisted of hurrying up and trying to get stuff finished that I've been ignoring for too long. Good times. Everyone was in a weird mood around 4pm. I don't feel completely comfortable around them yet, but it was fun to watch them horse around.

My missing badge was found today. It turns out that Ben lost it. Phew, I thought my memory was going. He put it in the laptop bag while the car was getting some work done and then forgot about it. Even though together we tried to figure out where it might be and I even mentioned the car place. Oh well. I had needed to get new badges anyway because my status changed.

I'm feeling a bit anxious about traveling tomorrow. This is the longest layover that we have though and the weather looks good, but I'm still nervous. I also don't understand why we need to check in an hour early to a regional airport. Big ones or busy ones, yeah. But I don't think this is either. And what happens if we're late? In champaign the ticket people disappeared...would that happen here? I don't think I've been this nervous about traveling in a while. :(

Yesterday was a work Christmas party. I thought we were going to have way too much food and that I'd have chex mix to bring home, but most of it seemed to disappear by the end of the day. Maybe because second shift came in.

Monday: Program release

Hmm, well the majority of the day involved training and fixing bugs and adding features to my program. While it still has some quirks, it should be pretty useable. Tomorrow I'm going to try and stay away from the programming because I have a lot of other stuff I need to do.

Hmm, the funny thing of the day was when the IT guy took control of my computer to show me how to make a shortcut. I had put it a help ticket because I thought he could put the shortcut on a lot of profiles. Once that was sorted out it didn't matter anymore, but he proceeded to show me how to make a shortcut anyway. *sigh*

Sunday

Well, we didn't get as much snow as predicted. We got about an inch last night which froze with some sleet (that was fun to shovel) and then another inch or two today. It was snowing last I looked, so probably a few more inches tonight...but nothing close to the 12+ that was predicted.

Nothing else really interesting happened today, but I'm tired so I'm going to go read in bed.