Ah Christmas

I guess it takes some time to get this blogging thing going. I haven't posted because everytime I attempt in the 4 minutes I have free I can't figure out how to do it. Luckily for you all, today I am smarter... although I just dropped $80 to have the OS on my home computer reinstalled after spending 10+ hours trying to do it myself only to end up with about 4 inches of my 15 inches monitor utilized... no internet capability, but a very nice wallpaper of a rolling meadow.

I think spending that $80 might prove that I am smarter though.

Christmas was a'ight this year. It seemed to go on forever which is a good thing. Jenn and I exchanged gifts on Wednesday evening the 21st since we were leaving for my parents on the 22nd. On the 23rd, we let my nephew open his gifts from us, on the 24th we had Christmas with my family, then on the 25th we had Christmas with Jenn's family. That's 5 different opening opportunities.

Jenn and I's presents have a little twist, we're starting this tradition of picking one store, one budget, and then going nuts. This year the store of choice was Bass Pro Shops. We thought it was a little more of a sporting goods store instead of a hunting store. It still produced a decent result, although as I proved once again, I am a better shopper than my wife. I guess I'm proud of that. I got her some workout shirts, a pretty nice fleece jacket and a cool shirt that can be a workout shirt or whatever. She got me some pretty cool stuff but circumstances forced it all to be returned or exchanged. I got a fleece vest... too big, so it was exchanged. A headlamp that she intended for me to exchange because they didn't have the one she wanted to get me. A vacuum sealed thermos that ended up being returned because it was HUGE, and a Carhart hat that I exchanged for some behind the head ear warmers. I feel bad that everything went back but I got some great stuff and the ideas she had were outstanding. I think I like my headlamp best but I haven't had much opportunity to play with it yet.

My favorite gift overall is probably my new Ipod Nano which was a combined graduation gift and Christmas followed closely by my restaurant style Belgian Waffle Maker http://www.waringproducts.com/cgi-bin/waring/ret/waringRet.pl5 (I love Belgia) and my "I'd rather be playing with my weiner" shirt (Pictures to follow if I can learn how to do that.)

I guess posts are supposed to be short so I better shut up.