All in a Garden Green

Overall, a very good weekend.

We arrived in NH earlier than expected on Thursday.. Decided not to stop at the bank and try to get loan paperwork (mk. 3) squared away, as they said there was really no rush. Home by 2:30. Woo! Relaxing afternoon, visiting, futzing around on the computer, etc. Saw pet_spider for all of 15 minutes before he went off to parties and a musical gig. Actually went to church that evening with mom & dad, mainly to hear pet_spider play trumpet, but I basically just wanted to sing Christmas songs. And I did. Enjoyed myself. Rode home with N, was nice sibling bonding time, and he's glad to have his MINI back too. Poor thing decided it was going to throw a transmission linkage cable, or something, last Monday. Did not want to move at all, but it's fixed now.

Slept in on Christmas. Lovely. Gifts were opened, food was eaten, relaxation was had. I have stuffed chocobos now. They are ridiculously cute. Also, mom and dad are buying us our stove, once we can legally put it inside the new house... eep. Had delicious beef roast for dinner. Saw Sherlock Holmes Christmas evening. Good movie. Most enjoyable.

Saturday was more doing nothing much at all, then M came over, did more gifts, we played cards, she stayed for dinner and a bit of RockBand afterward, then left before the weather got too awful. Snow/rain/freezing on the roads not so fun.

Sunday we headed back north. ( Decided to look in on the house )

Time now to try and unpack from this weekend, get the living room straightened up for Thursday when N and M come up for New Year's, and maybe, actually, possibly, get somewhere on my dang garb... I'll hopefully not be finishing it on the way to the event... though it wouldn't be the first time.

Neat little promo animation for a beautiful song. Love the little dragon in the illumination, too. :) I may have to use him somewhere.

And my post streak comes to an end. Ah well. Pretty good while it lasted. Other things took priority last night, though.

Went do dinner at a fancy Chinese place last night, I got my duck (yummy yummy), drove around a bit and saw what few Christmas lights were still up, and returned home to rock on plastic instruments with my family.

Guitar Hero: World Tour is much better (as is Rock Band, I imagine) with the rest of the band. After three (or so) hours of guitar, I picked up the drumsticks, and managed not to fail completely. I do hate my foot... Then exercised vocal chords that probably should not have been exercised (but I can still talk today, so it's all good.). We can still get together as a family and make music, it's just a different kind. :)

Comparaison: Rock Band (and II) has a much better track list. But wii play what wii have, you know? :) Going to probably pick up Wii RockBand II when it comes out, if the instruments are compatible with GH III...

And a pot of tea and a Euchre game is waiting for me in the other room... I must be off...

With lazy snowflakes... slow, drifty, fluffy flakes, that didn't accumulate much at all. Roads and sidewalks are clear, and there's just a little bit tucked into the grass. No shoveling necessary. Done snowing now, so I can go off and enjoy 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' with the rest of my Haus, without worrying about a phone call. :)

Holiday party chez Max and anna_mickel last night was lovely. Bacon baklava was done in time, and so yummy.

Didn't do much all day; slept till 11, which was wonderful, puttered for a few hours, looked at the clock and was astonished to see it was 2 PM. Cleaned up the sewing room today, re-organized the bookshelves, got rid of some stuff. Feels good to get rid of stuff. I certainly have enough of it. Once it all gets organized, though, it'll be time to move... maybe soon. Maybe not...

Hope everyone had a lovely holiday; I enjoyed (and am still enjoying) several days off, played some key-tar on the Wii, and generally had a relaxing time.

Drove back home from my parents' this afternoon in time to make it to the auto shop so they could slap a new inspection sticker on my windshield [Finally. Danged blinker's been like that for 5 years, and it's suddenly a problem??? Argh. Fixed now, for good, $5.00 vs $75.00 repair, no more problems.], and saw the most amazing things on the Interstate.

First off, the Wonderful. The interstate/highways in New Hampshire have some of the most beautiful granite cliffs along the roads. This time of year, as the snow melts, it seeps through the rock, and comes out of whatever crack it can find, forming huge fountains of ice. Never seen anything to compare anywhere else. When the ice gets thick enough, either by virtue of minerals in the rock being transferred to it, or reflection of the sky, it turns a beautiful shade of, well, Ice Blue. I wish I had a photograph of it, but I always seem to be driving when it happens... and I'm not really one to pull over on a major highway unless I have to...

( More Vehicular Contemplations. )

A final rant. Tolls... One of these days I am going to have to pick up a transpass/ezpass/whatever-the-heck-pass we're using, or I'm never going to have any money again. It costs me $7.60 in tolls if I want to take the interstate home and back. Holy Carp. I think the gas/time spent if I took back roads would be more costly, so it's still economical, but for heavens sake...

Home again, a few more relaxing days now, then New Years Party, then back to work... See everyone again in 2008!