Life has been so busy these last few weeks, and I have totally forgotten to update this blog. So here goes almost two weeks worth of catching up.

First, the weather. It started raining on Friday, the 17th, and it didn’t stop again until Thursday, the 23rd. A week of non-stop rain and almost 1/2 of our normal annual rainfall in one week! I’ve never seen so much continuous heavy rain in my entire life. When we lived in Ohio we had long periods of rain, but nothing like this. It would occasionally stop. This didn’t…for an whole week. Then we got a break for two days and it started back up again late on Christmas Day. It rained all night last night and stopped by early morning. Latest word is that we’ll get more rain on Wednesday and then will have another few days of dryness. I have a feeling this is going to be an extremely wet winter. I don’t mind this too much provided it’s only once in a while. Maybe the drought will finally end.

And then there’s the Lakers. One of Patrick’s coworkers won tickets to the Christmas Day game in the office raffle…and she gave the tickets to me! I knew she (as well as Patrick) had entered the raffle, but I never expected either of them to win. And Terri did! So Patrick and I went to the game. It was extremely fun and I have no regrets about delaying Christmas dinner…and I hope Veronica didn’t mind too much. It would have been a much nicer day if the Lakers had won but what can you do. It was a great experience to go to the game–and we had really great seats!

Finally, there’s Christmas. It was fabulous! It started out with Patrick and Veronica and a number of friends joining us for Christmas Eve–and lots of food. And then there was Christmas Day. Enjoyed a great dinner of goose, duck, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole and lots of other yummy treats. And then there were the great gifts. Kevin and Soula sent gift cards for Home Depot and eBay, and Patrick and Veronica got me a Sony Reader and a gift card for the Reader…plus a lot of other goodies. It was really a good day.

I was exhausted after two late nights and slept for 10 hours last night! And then I did nothing but lay around today. I still have two more days off from work, so will try to do something a bit more productive before heading back to work. And now off to work so that I don’t spend half the morning in bed tomorrow!