Over the weekend, Daniel, Lisa and I went to see “The Family Stone” on opening weekend (which, in contrast to King Kong, did NOT surprise me in the least). I expected it to be good, but I wasn’t expecting to laugh as hard as I did (or as much as I did), or to be as touched as I was. The acting was superb, the story wonderful, the movie exactly what I wanted it to be.
We got almost all of our Christmas shopping done over the weekend, too, which is a VERY good thing since it’s only days away…! We’re spending Christmas Eve with the Clausens in Plano, Christmas day with the Norells in Mountain Home, and a few days after Christmas with the Halls in San Antonio. Thank goodness for time off from work, or this would NEVER work.
Zoe, our youngest kitten, has recently decided her new favorite place to be is in the attic. Her first attic expedition was Thursday night; Daniel had been working on wiring during the day, left the stairs to the attic down, and I closed them later in the evening not realizing Zoe had made it upstairs. When we got up Friday morning, she was crying at the top of her little lungs through a small hole in the ceiling where Daniel’s wiring cabinet is mounted in the office closet. Now, though, she’s taken to climbing the ladder in the garage for access to the basically-always-open attic access there. It’s hilarious when she peeps down through that hole meowing so loudly… and was particularly hilarious before we realized how she got up there.
I’m working all this week, but since TWU’s commencement was last weekend, there’s bascially nothing going on. This will be my last full week at my job, though, so I’m trying to get as much done and cleaned off my desk as possible. After the week of Christmas (and it WILL be a full WEEK of Christmas…!), things are going to get out of control very, very quickly.