How We Spent Our Winter Vacation
My memories of the holiday season, 2007-2008:
- Chris playing video games. Not the one where he has to yell, “Spawn on me!” but the one where he yells, “This server sucks! Switch to a new one!”
- Our front hallway gradually filling up with empty Amazon boxes, eventually spilling over into the living room so that we were unable to reach the front door.
- Miss de Mina searching her beds and all the other usual places, rejecting toys she encountered until she located the chickie, thus showing she knows what she wants, if we ever doubted it.
- Stanley (we suspect) dragging his stinky bunny into the pink snuggle sack and leaving it carefully tucked in for us to discover the next day.
- Paco attempting to trick me into treating him by hiding in his bedroom until I came upstairs, and then doing his “I made a poo on the paper” dance, regardless of whether there was actual poo on the paper or not.
- John Pinette hilariously performing at the Comedy Connection on New Year’s Eve, leading me to, on the one hand, fear that he’s going to die early from his weight, and on the other hand, hope he doesn’t lose weight because most of his humor is based on that.
- Christmas at the in-laws, including celebrating my brother-in-law’s birthday and Chris’s birthday. Guess which one they forgot to invite me to.
- Knitting for limited amounts of time, due to hands that were in pain from shoveling too much snow, thus resulting in a lovely sweater perfect for a small baby with half an arm.
- Playing Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii in coooperative mode, which meant that Chris did all the actual work and kindly let me believe that I was assisting by capturing falling gems, even though most of the time my Wii remote was off the TV screen.
- My mother and father, having successfully flown to California and Bora Bora, returning home to Boston only to get lost trying to get from the baggage claim area to the outside of the building where we were waiting to pick them up.
- Zingermans. More to follow on that later.
- Work. Work. Work. More work.
Posted by: ssjane | January 6, 2008 | 2:25 pm
Posted in: This Life