A Driving Hiatus

The month of November contained lots of driving. We spent a weekend in Michigan hanging out with Tony's family. Thanksgiving came and we traveled to Wisconsin for some quality time with the Dieringer family, and last weekend was spent in Milwaukee. Tony was invited by our friend Kyong to play for Night of Worship, an event with Intervarsity, allowing for a nice visit to MSOE. Overall, it was a great time to reconnect with our friends from school, as it was Tony's first time back since graduation. However, all this traveling has resulted in quite a bit of exhaustion.

Before the traveling begins for Christmas, Michigan next weekend and Wisconsin the following, we took this last weekend off. What a wonderful choice since I have finals next week and Tony has needed some quality time by himself. Friday night brought about the chance to pick up some Christmas decorations for the apartment. We also spent some time with our friends Sami and Ben watching Firefly and hanging out. (Sami works in my lab). Saturday we went our separate ways. I spent 9am to 3:30pm at Starbucks studying for finals, while Tony had some quality time fixing my computer and working with some of the desktops we've acquired. Needless to say, he had a lot of fun experimenting with linux (an operating system) and combining the two desktops.

Saturday night, Tony traveled up to Cedar Rapids to hang out with our friend Matt. They ended up playing some quality games on the Wii while I stayed home to finish some more studying (got a lot done!) and make some cookies for our Monday night cookie exchange. I settled on making some of my mother-in-laws famous ginger-not-so-snaps. Now just to keep them away from Tony until tomorrow. He loves them!

We also took the time to run to Lowe's a pick out our Christmas tree. It's real!!!!!!! It turned out to be very nicely shaped and did need much time for the branches to fall so the lights and ornaments went on this afternoon. We now have a real Christmas tree sitting in our living room! I also discovered that Tony has a lot of ornaments. (despite the pictures, it's actually quite nicely shaped)

The weekend ended with some final studying (my wrist hurts from writing too much), more computer working, peanut butter cookie making, and sitting on the couch watching some Packers vs. Lions with some delicious popcorn and nutella with Ritz crackers.

This next week brings about a very busy week at work for me, along with finals, followed by my longest Christmas break ever. Tony works for another two weeks before Rockwell shuts down for the holidays. Next weekend we travel to Michigan for Christmas and the following week is Christmas in Wisconsin.

The next thing to happen here is for it to SNOW!!!! and stick.