Christmas Break

Two days before Christmas we went to our friend Patricia's house for a mass cooking event. We made ravioli and sausage from scratch - yeah - intestines and everything!

Christmas Day - we went to the movies and then hung out at an Irish pub. It was a fun low-key day. The movie we saw, "Children of Men", made for good discussion after. It would make a difference - a huge difference - if all women became infertile. There would be no more hope in the world. The question to ponder: why would we, a childless couple by choice, feel that it would make a difference? It would, it really would...anyway, this led to much discussion over beer and Shepard's pie.

The rest of my time off was to be spent in preparation for the trip. Sadly, not much preparation was made. We managed to sell John's motorcycle, my snowboard, and his snowboarding pants, but that's about it. We really need a BIG garage sale, but that's hard to do in an apartment downtown. Let us know if you need any kitchen gadgets, sofa & love seat, mattress & box springs, leather chair, dining room table, Litter Robot, or basically anything you have seen in our house.

Very good news - our apartment manager has rented our unit so we will be able to get out of our lease!! That saves us at least $3000! Hopefully we will even be able to get back the pet deposit.

Speaking of pets - on Christmas Day the report from Darwin's new home in Kansas was grim. Grandpa had been scratched, Darwin was still a hissing, growling beast, and no one was happy. Thankfully at last report Darwin is relaxing a bit and as far as I know there have no more maiming incidents.