Monday: nope, it's Tuesday

Today has felt like a Monday all day. So it's nice to remember that it's actually Tuesday. Work today was fine. Nothing very exciting was going on and one of our big programs is being upgraded so there some work that we can't do.

Thrilling, no?

No.

I started one of my Christmas puzzles yesterday. I'm going to go work on that now.

Monday: Last day of vacation

Ben and I took today off too. It was really nice not having to go to work, but we'll be back at it tomorrow...and Ben will be back to extra busy again too.

We did get quite a bit done today, although not everything got finished. What else is new? All the Christmas decorations are down and I miss having the lights. I think Christmas lights are by far my favorite Christmas decoration.

I started the day with making some donuts. Donuts with nuts, sprinkles, and coconut (but not all together). Delicious. I froze the extra batter in ice cube trays, so we'll see if that makes it easier for the next batch. I'll probably try again on Saturday.

Oh! I also disguised myself as an herb! ...it wasn't quite as much fun as it sounded. Well, maybe it was as much fun as it sounds. Although the person standing next to me was willing to buy and sell to an herb, so I thought that was funny.

Ben and I tied in Dominion for the second time. I would have thought that ties would be rare, but so far we've had two in the 10-15 games that we've played.

Sunday: Happy Sunday

Today was a pretty normal Sunday. We went to church, did a few errands, and came home. I was super tired at that point...I could barely keep my eyes open during the episode of Castle that we watched. So I took a nap right after that.

Flurry has been sleeping on my lap a lot today while I've been playing WoW, so that's been fun. It's a nice feeling.

Oh, and I think we found the problem with the beeping smoke detector. The one we thought it was was the wrong one. Stay tuned to see if the next one that we think is the correct one really is.

Saturday: Happy New Years!

For not being a busy day, a lot sure did happen for me to tell you about.

I ate a yogurt for breakfast. Flurry's reaction in the movie is why I usually eat breakfast at work. I tried to make it a little shorter than it actually was, but I think it is still too long. Oh well. You'll get the idea quickly.

One of our smoke detectors is beeping. It has been since we got home. It beeps twice about every three hours. After we finally figured out which one it was I put a new battery in...and it is still beeping. Hmm.

I played a lot of warcraft today. Yesterday I saved some cute squirrels and rabbits and injured fawns. Today I impaled baby bears on the tops of pine trees. Then I realized what I was doing (the horror!) and instead threw them into the trampoline so that the could live another day.

It was also second Christmas today. Second Christmas is when we actually get out the stuff we got for Christmas and put it in usable places. And it's fun to rediscover what we were given. Here's Flurry staring down her present...it will have cat grass in it in a few days.

Well, it's that time of year again. Ben and I have decided to ring in the New Year by not doing anything because Im not feeling great. It's been a lot of years since I haven't done anything for the New Year, but it might be nice. Or I might go to sleep before midnight. we'll see.

This year was better than last year. It was still stressful, but there were a lot of fun things too. Let's take a random sampling of pictures from the year. (Flurry ended up being featured prominently, but it's because she doesn't mind getting her picture taken. And really, she's just super cute.)

January: I received a Lego Ice Cube maker for Christmas and color some of the ice cubes. I also colored my hands.

February: snow!

March: the laundry never stops. Luckily Flurry was making it a little more interesting this day.

April: Flurry got her cast off! It took another month until she seemed fully healed though.

May: Flurry sleeps! I love it when she covers her eyes with her paw. It's so cute.

June: picnic! Look at all of that delicious food.

July: cereal-luck. Come share your favorite cereal.

August: we visited NYC with Dusty and Laura

September: Ben and I went on a trip to St. Lucia. Here's Ben on our way to a zip-line in a rain forest.

October: we bought a pound of dice

November: we went to Holland for Thanksgiving

December: Flurry had a huge photo shoot as we tried to get a good one for the Christmas card.

Friday: we're home

We're home! We made it a lot farther last night than we were planning, so that was nice today. However, we're still exhausted from the trip. Hopefully some warcraft will help.

Various days: pictures

Well, I had meant to put this picture on before but forgot.

AAHH!! The Christmas monster is going to get Nathan and Liz.




It was Ben's Dad's birthday yesterday. We went out for a delicious dinner. I had perch almondine and it was amazing. Then ice cream pie with a special chocolate sauce. yum. well, I only have a good picture of Ben.



finally, I made my own donuts. They turned out rather well, although they made me rather thirsty.