Month: December 2006

In the last 24 hours, I’ve noticed something new for the holidays — I’ve gotten three SMS messages from various friends wishing me a Merry Xmas. Either my friends have gotten younger or SMS is getting more mainstream; not sure which.

We’re having an extremely quiet weekend at home. Even though we don’t celebrate Chirstmas, over the years I find that most of the time, we end up spending the day with either family or friends. After all, there’s no much else you can do. Pretty much everything is closed. So being totally on our own for Xmas is a little unusual, and kind of lonely. It doesn’t much feel like a holiday.

However. with Scott on a restricted diet until January, it didn’t seem like a good idea to try to inflict his dietary limitations on any of our friends. So yesterday Scott roasted up a turkey (omitting his usual butter enrichment) & we had a nice dinner of turkey, gravy, potatos, and asparagus — all made with as little fat as possible. It was pretty tasty, too. We’ll be working our way through the leftovers today, and I’m going to make stock out of the carcas.

If the local movie theater is open and playing something worth seeing, maybe we’ll walk on down & see a show. If not, I’ve got DVDs to watch, and a big pile of leftover turkey to eat.

So things are quiet around here, but that’s not necessarily bad. It’s been a really crazy month. Some rest and time to recharge is a good thing.

On Friday afternoon, the final class of 2006 robed up, walked across the stage to the applause of our families, and got our diploma holders.
Afterwards, we had a yummy dinner down at Boulevard, and then hightailed it up to the Sonoma Mission Inn for a round of winery visits, some more great food, a little relaxation, and some precious time with Scott and my parents.
I’m very tired, but I had a fantastic weekend.
Dad shot a brief video of me, which I need to upload somewhere. It’s very short (13 seconds) and not all that thrilling but still, I’m glad he took it.

UPDATE 12/18: OK, I tried to put the video on GooTube. Let’s see if it worked.

That was not a fun final.

I teared up a little at the end, though, because that was officially it.

I’m done.

Unless something goes badly awry, I’m getting my diploma on Friday.

There’s a lot more I could say, and I probably will soon enough, but right now I’m beat. I’m going to cuddle with the kitties & go to sleep early.