Having a place to stay!

Today there was a snow storm (aka blizzard). It made for some interesting driving! Fortunately right after work today, I just had to drive to my parents house to ring in the new year.

At about 9:00pm the snow had stopped and so I helped my sister and my cousins shovel off my parents driveway. My parents have the longest driveway EVER!!! (And I am not exaggerating.) But we finished and went back inside.

I have had a cold the last few days and did not want to lose too much sleep so I left my parents at about 12:15. When I got home, I could not get into my parking stall. The storm had blown snow into my parking stall and prevented me from parking. I could have spent an hour or so shovelling snow so that I could park in my parking stall but I decided against that option. Instead I thought....I could go back to my parents house and sleep there, but there are no free beds so that would require blowing up an air mattress, etc, etc, etc. OR I could go to my sisters house and sleep over there. I chose option B.

It is definitely nice to be able to count on family when you need a place to stay!!

(I will get to shovelling the driveway tomorrow afternoon)

Reading

I enjoy reading occasionally. I am not an avid reader...now. I tend to read everything in sight for 5 days, 10 weeks, 15 months or even 2 years, and then I do not read anything for the next 5 days, 10 weeks, 15 months or even 2 years....lol.

About a year and 1/2 ago I decided to join a book club. I thought it would be a good way to find what types of books I was interested in. I hoped it would give me a variety of books to read (it has). I am currently reading I Was A Teenage Katima-Victim by Will Ferguson. It is a good book. It is also the book I recommended for the group. I have spent the weekend reading the book and I am almost done (I will finish it tonight).

My wrist rest

Does that describe what I think it is supposed to describe? Is that what it is called?

I bought a wrist rest for my computer a few months ago and I really enjoy it. I like it because it is supposed to help with carpal tunnel and also because it has beans(or something like that) in it and it is a lot of fun to play with. Whenever get bored at my computer (or I need a few minutes to think....) I just play with my wrist rest. Isn't that awesome!!

Way to go wrist rest!!

(In case you could not tell, I am really tired and so I am going to bed now.)

Visiting with Family

Today I went over to my cousin's house to visit. It was very nice to get together especially during such a busy season. They were nice enough to have us over for supper as well. It was AWESOME!!

We just hung out and talked for a while and then we played some games.

Coincidentally my niece won a colouring contest and so we went to pick up her prize from that as well. It was AWESOME!!

Taste tasting....

There is a new restaurant opening in my city in the next few days (actually I have no idea when). My sister got an invitation to attend their training (ie. the servers, cooks, bar tenders, etc need to be trained on their jobs in a 'real life' situation). So what they do is they invite people to come to their restaurant to act as patrons and sample the food, service, etc. Today for lunch we were able to go to the restaurant and participate in this. It was very interesting!!

The food was really good and the service was excellent!! I am going to encourage people to go there! Very well done!

Playing Games

I rarely go shopping on Boxing Day. I dislike shopping at the best of times and when you add crowds, it is quite unpleasant. Not to mention the fact that many of the 'sales' last longer than just Boxing Day anyway.

Today I played games. What kind of games? Card games basically. One of the reasons I enjoy the Christmas season is because we spend more time as a family playing games. We do play games at other times of the year but Christmas is the time we play games the most.

It is a very relaxing way to spend Boxing Day.

Christmas traditions

When my grandpa died in 1997, I was apprehensive about creating new Christmas traditions (ie. not going out to the farm for Christmas). However, 11 years later, we do have other Christmas traditions. Our main tradition is Christmas brunch. My family (parents, siblings, cousins, etc) go over to my parents house for brunch. My mom makes cinnamon buns, fruit salad, croissants, crepes, sausage, bacon, etc for brunch. It is very tasty!!

We do not have another meal then until supper. (Although we do snack throughout the afternoon!)

It is a lot of fun!! What a great day!!