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Barenaked for the Holidays


I will not expound on my weekend at large, because most of it was quite boring (aside from Matty coming home). The highlight was Saturday night when we went to the BareNaked Ladies Holiday Concert. My uncle and aunt had given Matt, Kelly and myself tix for Christmas presents and we got to go with them and my cousins for a very very good show. They played loads of stuff from their holiday album and plenty of the old faves and a new track that has yet to be released. Their paticular brand of witty hijinks and baudy humor were interwoven throughout the show to my great delight. One odd highlight was that we were situated so that we could see a signer signing the concert (including song's lyrics) to someone in the audience. She was really cool to watch and now I know ASL for “credit card” and “light” and a few other things.

Odd must go with BNL concerts, because the lady in front of us certainly fit the category. We can only assume that she cultivated her love of BNL from their song, Shake Your Rump (well I suppose this is less of a song than it is a spontaneous BNL concert rap) because that was all she could do all night long. Not in time with the music. Not seemingly for any specific purpose … just unbridled BNL excitment. I was a little worried she was having a seizure once or twice, but I'm glad she enjoyed the concert so much.

Also in the category of odd highlights were the laughs we got from our parking situation. Continue reading “Barenaked for the Holidays”

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Let it Snow!

I've decided to embrace the cold weather, so last night I made a snowy skin for Jesser. I'm trying to con Matt (who LURVES Christmas with a capital LURVE) to make a Christmas theme … or two.

Enjoy the snow! Or at least my snowy winter theme.

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Frickin' Freezing

I took this photo when we were at Grand Lake last year for the ice fishing trip. It was cold that day, when we went snow-shoeing, but I guarantee it's colder now. And we're at a much lower elevation. Yesterday on my way home from work (by way of a friend's house) the radio guys said it was -5, wind chill -15. This morning it had warmed up. A clock/thermometer bill board at a church I drive by said -1. The real kicker is that the heat seems to be out at work, so I'm sitting here with my space heater and my wool jacket. I'd love to put on my gloves, but I don't think I can program too efficiently with them on. 😛

Hope you're all keeping warm (or at least warmer than me!!!).

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Blown Away


Honestly, with the wind we had here yesterday, I'm amazed I'm still standing. Fences, street lights, stop signs, trucks, you name it were all blown over in yesterday's wind. It was hurricane speed winds without the water.

Worst of all though, since I have a TON to get done this week, was that our power kept going out at work. In the morning we had several surges (I lost about 30 min worth of work due to one of those) and then around 10 we lost power for about an hour and a half. Then around 2:30 we lost power again. I stuck around 'til 4 hoping it would come on so I could get a few things done and finally went home so at least I could get some stuff there done.

Today, it's not windy, but it is supposed to start snowing in a bit and not let up until tomorrow morning. Oy.

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Christmas is Coming …


We had a totally brilliant weekend. Matt spent all of last week eagerly anticipating/receiving/putting together the parts for his new built-from-scratch computer. I had gotten some extra side-work and so we were able to replace Matt's computer last week after it having been effectively dead for almost 3 months. He bought lots of new parts and salvaged what he could from the old machine. So we spent lots of Friday night building that. I'm sure he'll make a long post about that.

Saturday evening was my company Holiday party, which was a lot of fun. It was held at the Walnut Foundry in LoDo (lower downtown Denver). I spent that morning with Matt, going to the gym, having lunch, etc. and then Holly came over and she and I worked on baby announcements and invites and thank-yous and she painted my toes and then did my hair and make-up for the big party. The party was great and it was really nice to see everyone dressed up! I even wore a little black dress, which is very out of character for me. I got lots of nice compliments on my attire and jewelry, and I could honestly say, almost all of it came from Target. Continue reading “Christmas is Coming …”