December 2008
6 posts
Merry Christmas!
Yesterday, Christmas Eve, was great, we had an awesome time exchanging gifts as you can see in my flickr.com pictures.  The new kitchen made such a difference in the dynamics!  I was cooking and setting up and always a part of what was going on since people were sitting at the counter, leaning over to talk to me…it was great.  Well worth all the money I spent on it.  The first family affair...
Dec 26th
Wood Family Christmas 2008
Pictures are up on flickr.com.  It wasn’t a huge gathering but we had a lot of fun.  We were missing any representative from my oldest brother’s family.  But all of the other siblings in my family at least had one member.
Dec 21st
Dec 15th
Pre-Christmas
I took Friday off and it’s been a busy three day weekend here.  I’ve been making candy to give as my office present.  I don’t know yet how to post a picture directly here but I’ve posted it on my flickr account so a pix of my candy should be in the lower righthand corner. I first made chocolate covered raisins with semi-sweet chocolate.  If I had to do the recipe again, I...
Dec 14th
Economy
This morning I decided to make a trip to WalMart.  Yes, I know, it’s December 6th, a Saturday, and approaching 10am.  Who in their right mind would choose that time to make a trip to WalMart?  Although sales in other markets are on the decline, more and more people are shopping at WalMart rather than the mall.  The whole trip over I was bracing myself…telling myself to be patient, that...
Dec 7th
It's 10:37pm
So after watching the Daily Show with a guest who talked about blogging, I thought maybe I should make an entry to my own blog.  (Of course, she suggested people blogging about watching the show, so duh!) Hello, again, Internet! I first started blogging in October of 2001.  Somewhere on some server, those texts do still exist.  I know this reincarnation is pretty short and, so far, pretty bare,...
Dec 4th