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Play Time

I definitely have conflicting feelings about being an adult. Driving? Awesome. Paying taxes? Ugh. Income not based upon allowance? Woohoo! Working? Blah. This is one of those weeks when I'd give quite a bit not to be an adult … not that I'd want to be five. But back in college might be nice.

See what I'm missing this week is play time. The week after Christmas was always playtime. We'd spend scads of time in our pajamas hanging out in front of the TV and computer, playing games. We'd go to the mall to return gifts and stay for dinner and a movie. We'd eat leftovers and take naps.

Now, though, I'm between. I don't have enough vacation (i.e. seniority) to just hang out after Christmas and I am no longer in school, so I don't automatically get a break. So 7 AM finds me at work and a little grumpy about it. I'm tired and where I really want to be is at home with Matt and Loki playing computer games and going to the dog park and goofing around. *sigh*

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Christmas in Nashville


I don't know if I mentioned this before, but we spent our Christmas in Nashville this year. We got up on Wednesday and drove straight through until 5 AM Thursday morning. We had a 2+ hour stop-over in Topeka, KS where Matt lost his wedding ring while playing with Loki and we had to run to Dick's Sporting Goods to buy a metal detector so that we could (eventually) find it.

After we got up on Thursday, Matt's step-mom made us breakfast and then we had to go get some annoying errands done (i.e. last-minute shopping). That night, we went to Matt's grandma's annual Christmas party and got to see all of the relatives we only see once every other year or so.

After the party, some of Matt's cousins came over to his dad's house. We got in the hot tub and pool and played with the dogs (Matt's dad and step-mom have a great black lab named Hogan who the pool was largely built for). Continue reading “Christmas in Nashville”