How time flies.
Yes, I know it’s been over three months – THREE MONTHS – since I posted last. Shame on me! (For the record, no, we didn’t see a Halloween blizzard.)
True to form, nothing has really happened since I last posted. Work, sleep, home, life. Same old.
Just a couple things, though:
My family and I spent the Christmas holiday in Illinois with the family. We had a wonderful time. Unfortunately for me, I picked up a slight bug from one of the Bosses, and spent part of the weekend under the weather. Hence all the naps. Sorry about that, folks. The most fun part was the white elephant gift draw. tee hee. We should do that more often!!! The gift I drew consisted of a kitty-covered holiday sweater (which fits), a can of Silly String (SWEET, though I have yet to use it, be afraid), a bag of Starlight mints, an unused recipe book, and a beach mat (which will work wonders if we ever get lawn seats at future Kernel baseball games). My thanks to whoever supplied the gift; I forgot to ask who. I avoided stealing the gift with the beer, though it got around. I think either my cousin Brian or my uncle Bill ended up with it. We also had a family portrait session done at the school. This photo was posted on my uncle John’s Facebook page, and I’m shamelessly borrowing it:
That’s not all of us, either. My cousin Gina hadn’t arrived yet when the family photos were taken; my family and I missed her by a couple days, darn it. So just imagine one more person in that photo, and that would be all of us.
Yup. We’re all…..all. I love my family.
Some drama here at home, involving my sister’s dog Jasper. Poor Jas. Something happened to him, and he is now blind in his left eye. There is a tumor behind his left eye. Eek! Amy felt so bad. She took him to a specialist that the vet recommended, and the specialist said that, aside from the tumor, the retina was also detached. His eye can’t be saved, regardless. So this coming Friday, he is – SOB – going to have his eye removed. Poor Jas! Once the eye is removed, it will be sent for further testing. And we’re not quite sure what’s going to happen after that. Only time will tell. I’ll keep you posted.
Finally getting some SNOW! Oh my goodness. Christmas didn’t feel like Christmas, either here or in Illinois, because there was absolutely NO SNOW. To say nothing of the fact that for most of the start of the winter it was so damn mild! We got to fifty degrees for a couple of days at the start of the month! If I remember correctly, it was fifty at Christmas time, too. Of course, just this past week, we’ve gotten snow and freezing cold in droves. In fact, we closed the office early on Friday, because it got pretty bad weather-wise. Yeah, driving was not fun on Friday; well, I wasn’t driving, because I can’t drive, but you know what I mean.
Either way, cold or mild, people still complained about the weather. I don’t understand that at all.
Oh, and I turned another year older on January 5th. Yeah, I blinked and missed it, too.
And that’s about it. Not much else going on.
Hopefully, I will be posting more often than once every three months. Just gotta get back into the swing of things.
So, I’ll see you around!!!
Poor Jasper!