2009, here we come!

Christmas was pretty awesome.  The family all pitched in to get my Mom (commonly known as “Grandma”) a new MacBook Pro Aluminum.  Although she protested that we should not have spent so much money, she is now converting from her brick of a Compaq and loving the new machine.

I got The Dark Knight on DVD and Fallout 3 for the XBox, so I had a very nerdy Christmas.  Hunter got way too many toys from Santa, and Connor got lots of cute clothes (because he’s too young for any good toys, anyway).  Carina got Leopard for her iMac, and some stainless steel pans to replace the old teflon ones she’s been using forever, along with some silver necklaces and other good stuff.

New Year’s Eve was fun, if not a blow-out party thing.  My sister came over and we played some cards, and lit off 3 fireworks from my July 4th stash before all of my BBQ lighters went out on me.  At this rate it will take me 3 years to get rid of all those fireworks!

Now that the holiday season is officially over, it’s time to get back into shape with 2009.  So, we’re still hitting the gym (of course), but we’re back on our nutritious diet, eating lots of veggies and staying away from the unhealthy stuff (basically everything we gorged ourselves on from Thanskgiving to Christmas), and we’re trying to get our stuff organized from our move last May (still).

One of the big things we’re doing is organizing the kids’ toys and decidiing what goes, what stays, and what we’re going to keep until later.  This is a big job, because HP has way too many of them.  Carina wants to find a good charity to give the “donation” pile to, instead of giving them to Deseret Industries… she wants them to be used and enjoyed by children, and not just resold.

I’m hoping at some point in time she and I can get back to playing World of Warcraft – we want to join back up with our friends from Colorado, but she doesn’t have a toon high enough level.  I would like to spend a couple of weeks getting her a character that can get up that high, but there are frankly too many “real-world” things that need to get done before we can justify wasting evenings in front of a monitor.  And, after working on a computer all day long, it’s hard for Carina to want to sit down in front of a monitor again for another 2-3 hours.

But for now, we are just enjoying the fresh calendar.