January Thaw
Okay, the cold spell has been over for a while now. In fact, it's going to be in the 40s next week. Sweet. Weather.com asserts that we are on the upswing from here on out, but I'm not going to get my hopes up, as I recall nearly every February in my life being sad, weather-wise.
Something weird has happened to us since the New Year. We suddenly have Free Time, and lots of it. We finished our latest home improvement project just before Christmas. Then we went to Vancouver, and when we got back the holidays were over and we had nothing to do. Our schedules look like this:
Mon: Work, Gym, FREE TIME
Tues: Work, Class, FREE TIME
Wed: Work, Community Council (for Ami), FREE TIME
Thurs: Work, Gym, FREE TIME
Fri: Work (every other week), FREE TIME
Sat: Gym, FREE TIME
Sun: Gym, FREE TIME, Desperate Housewives
We have wedding shit to do, and Chris has zoo obligations sometimes, but overall it's like we've died and gone to a retirement community. Granted, our free time during the week is only an hour or so, but it's still time to read, or play a game, or watch an episode of something we've gotten from the library. The weekend is particulary glorious. We have time to cook elaborate meals, have people over, read, play games, play with our cats, plan vacations we can't afford to take, or whatever.
We have gone to see a movie TWICE in the last two weeks. I normally don't see movies, because I have no attention span. But I've discovered that if you have little or nothing to do, a movie is actually really fun. Next time I write I will tell you about our movie experience last weekend, or more appropriately our pre-movie restaurant experience, which I will henceforth call "Fish N' Chips N' COCK". Now you're interested.
In short, life is good, and I've been having a great time living it, lately. I used to dislike the end of winter, but now I kind of like the slow pace of it all.
Wintery Whining
So, New Year's Resolutions. My new approach is to make and stick to ONE resolution each year. That shouldn't be too hard, and by the end of the year my new habit should be ingrained. Just in time to pick up another one for the next year. So my resolution for 2007 is to make my bed every morning. I know, you're blown away by my ambition. Maybe your resolution should be to be more like me.
Life in the new year has been pretty good. Life is picking back up. Community Council started again last Wednesday, in fact I have a board meeting tonight. Our theology class starts again next Tuesday. We've been back at the gym after our little break from working out over Christmas and our trip to Canada. It feels good, although we've abandonded riding the bus as we have some activity every night after work that we usually have to get to ASAP.
What doesn't feel good is going outside. We are having a crazy cold spell here. It's 22 degrees as I type. Getting in the cold car in the morning isn't fun. I desperately want a remote car starter, but we don't have enough money in the car fund to get one. We won't have the money until May, at which time the point will be moot. Chris says we can get one next fall, but I want one NOW!!!!!!
I say we should just get one, and pay ourselves back out of the car fund back over the next few months, but this is one I don't think I'm going to win. To his credit, Chris has been going out early and starting the car, but I don't want him to be cold, either.
According to the weather people, the cold spell should last another week or so, after which time it will be back to normal and I can stop whining. Check back then.
Labels: January
Happy New Year, Eh?
Vancouver for New Year's was great fun. I love Canada! The city was great, it felt like New York City on the West Coast. It was 10 or 15 degrees warmer than Salt Lake, which was nice, despite the rain. It was pretty overcast all the time, but I gather that it always is. We spent a lot of time doing nothing, just wandering around the city and enjoying being together.
New Year's Eve was the 4th anniversary of our first date. It's been 4 years since I got the balls to ask Chris to go out with me. We wandered down to the water, and were planning to take the Aquabus to Granville Island, but decided not to, as the man who drives the Aquabus was almost done for the night. So we leisurely wandered back toward the vicinity of our hotel, stopping in for drinks wherever we felt like it. We went out for a tasty Indian dinner, and then went out drinking on Robson Street, where we rang in the New Year. It was a very energetic crowd, and people were still laying on their horns all up and down Robson Street at 1am.
We spent 4 nights total in Vancouver, and a night in Seattle. The night in Seattle wasn't planned - we missed our flight. We didn't totally miss it, we were just running late enought that we
thought we were going to miss it. So we called Southwest and changed our flight. We made the most of it, going out for a delicious meal near Pike's Market. Unfortunately, we had to get up at 4am. That part was not so great. Neither was getting into Salt Lake City and going straight to work.
We pretty much spent the first week of January recovering from the holidays and New Year's. We slept a TON this past weekend. I guess we were exhausted, deep down inside. We had so much to do in November and December, with the remodeling project, the holidays, and holiday parties that we were so excited to have a weekend to do nothing. And that's just what we did. We managed to go out to dinner and go bowling on Friday night, and we drank a couple of bottles of wine with Steph and Tom on Saturday night. Oh, and I built a closet on Sunday because I'm psycho and can't lay off the home improvement projects for a second. We already had the boards and everything; they had been sitting in the closet since before November, and it was driving me crazy. It looks great, though.
As far as New Year's Resolutions go, yeah, I suppose I have some. I always make some. I'm running out of time though, so I'll save that for next time.
