http://www.pleonast.com/user/wifelet recent pleonast.com entries by user wifelet en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/wifelet?l=5&entryID=617359 Budget planning gives me ulcers. 2009-01-09 http://www.pleonast.com/user/wifelet?l=5&entryID=616906 Really?!? Wow. Some days, it feels like we've just met. Other days, it feels like we've been married forever - usually in a good way. :) I love you. January 8, 2005 December 28, 2008 And I miss you. 2009-01-08 http://www.pleonast.com/user/wifelet?l=5&entryID=616644 so I thought I'd check in and say hi. Hi! We're doing well here. More snow yesterday ... expecting more today, too. :( Yuck. At least it's been a little warmer - it's supposed to get up to 31 today! Finally got all the Christmas stuff taken down and put away, and the house picked up. We had dinner company last night, which was good motivation to get the Christmas stuff put away! I love my Christmas tree, though, so it was a little sad. The living room feels much bigger without it! This morning, I got up and went walking at the mall with Terra, and then came home and shoveled half the driveway and both sidewalks. YAY for exercise! I need to go finish my exercising ... but I'm taking a break and eating breakfast right now! Hmm ... what else is new ... not much ... So, I leave you with a picture of me and my adorable niece ... 2009-01-07 http://www.pleonast.com/user/wifelet?l=5&entryID=615489 Although I almost wish we weren't - it wasn't so busy there! :) We had a really good visit in Texas. I think my favorite part was wearing flip flops to breakfast yesterday morning. :) We got to see lots of cool people - Zane & Julie, Stanley & Aleisha, Dan & Percy, Xanthea, Lesli & Larry, Lance & Sarah, and LOTS of people at Kleinwood and Dowlen. :) And now that I've done all that, I'm sure I have forgotten someone. Oh, well - don't get offended. :) We also got some good things done. Matt did some handyman projects for Mom - some bookshelves put together, a new kitchen faucet, and some yardwork. I also went through all of my boxes at their house once and for all, and made a final decision on everything. Lots of stuff is going in Mom's garage sale in a couple of months - if you're in the NW Houston area, check out the garage sale. :) I brought some stuff home - this time around, mainly books! - and have a few little things left for someone to bring up to me... 2009-01-03 http://www.pleonast.com/user/wifelet?l=5&entryID=613487 Actually, we've been here for a couple of days. :) It's so nice here - actually, almost uncomfortably warm. There's a cool front coming through tonight, though, so that should help some. :) We had Christmas just for us before we left Illinois Thursday. It seemed silly to bring a bunch of stuff down, just to take it back up with us. So, we did that there. Matt got, among other things, a new pair of jeans. I got a rice cooker - very helpful, since I'm apparently incapable of making rice without scorching it! :) We've done a whole lotta not much since we got here. Matt did some work yesterday - put together a bookshelf for my mom, and worked in the yard a little bit. I went to the mall with Matt yesterday morning - we walked for a bit, and then did some shopping. Then, Mom and I went grocery shopping. I spent the rest of the day making yummy confections for Christmas presents. Lesli and Larry got in around 11 last night - their flight was delayed and delayed and delayed. Sav... 2008-12-27 http://www.pleonast.com/user/wifelet?l=5&entryID=612465 I promised non-weather posts, and they're coming, but this was just too momentous to pass up. I earned my activity points today, in a big way. I spent 70 minutes ... Shoveling snow. And by the end of it ... I had icicles on my hat. The problem was, while I was shoveling and Matt was chopping at ice ... It was still snowing. I shoveled the left side of the driveway first. Matt said we got about a half inch in the time we were out there. :( On the plus side, our deck table looks like a bed ... Seat, anyone? And the best part ... it's been like this since about 2 AM, and won't be done till 4 or 5 pm ... TOMORROW. :( Right now it's sleeting/freezing raining. :( We don't like that part. More interesting things soon. I promise. For reals. 2008-12-24 http://www.pleonast.com/user/wifelet?l=5&entryID=611864 Christmas is this week, and my radio station has begun playing 24/7 Christmas songs. I heard one this morning on the way home from the mall that had me giggling the whole time. It's by BareNakedLadies, featuring Michael Buble. If you haven't heard it, it's classic BNL style. Elf's Lament I'm a man of reason, and they say "'Tis the season to be jolly" But it's folly when you volley for position Never in existence has there been such a resistance To ideas meant to free us If you could see us, then you'd listen Toiling through the ages, making toys on garnished wages There's no union We're only through when we outdo the competition I make toys, but I've got aspirations Make some noise Use your imagination Girls and boys, before you wish for what you wish for There's a list for who's been Naughty or nice, but consider the price to an elf A full indentured servitude can reflect on one's attitude But that silly red hat just makes the fat man look outrageous Absurd though ... 2008-12-22 http://www.pleonast.com/user/wifelet?l=5&entryID=611458 Tomorrow: High: 3° Feels like: -23° What's it like where you are? P.S. - I promise posts soon about things more interesting than weather. I promise. 2008-12-20 http://www.pleonast.com/user/wifelet?l=5&entryID=611035 Since when is Pachelbel's Canon in D a Christmas song?? Our Christmas music station keeps playing this version of Canon in D with Christmas words to it. What?!? 2008-12-19 http://www.pleonast.com/user/wifelet?l=5&entryID=611012 Although, this one was apparently mostly ice. Matt just went out to get the paper. He says the driveway isn't really slick ... but it is frozen solid. I'm digging the pretty ice on the crabapple trees. I'm not digging being stuck at home - there's places I want to be today! Oh, well ... soon enough. I've been crazy busy lately working on Bible class stuff ... so much so that Christmas has totally snuck up on me! My tree has been up for a while, but I haven't wrapped ANYTHING. At this point, I don't think I'm going to. Given the warnings about how TSA will open your wrapped gifts, I think I'll just wrap when we get to Houston. I also haven't finished shopping for Savannah yet - I keep meaning to get to my kids clothes resale shop, but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe if the roads are better tomorrow, I'll go do that. She needs clothes from Auntie Lauren. :) So, poll for the day: homemade food gifts. What are your favorite homemade food gifts to make? to receive? My ideas for... 2008-12-19