last week, recap
Dec. 31st, 2002 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesDec 23: got on the train to CT after work, got there about 7:00. While I waited to be picked up, I had a nice conversation with a guy who was also waiting for a ride. He had been in NH for the last week doing EMT survival training (or something like that). Better him than me, I think. In the course of conversation, it came out that he only climbs 5.4 or thereabouts. I think I impressed him when I said I can climb a 5.7 on a good day.
Dec 24: we put the tree up, and after much discussion and three different tree identification books, decided it was a red spruce. We also had the annual argument with the lights; out of two strings, half of one string wouldn't light. We finally threw that string out, after the second year of arguing with it.
Dec 25: due to the weather forecast being utterly nasty, we decided not to drive back to MA for the Deschenes family get-together, so we hung around at home and opened presents and had BLTs for breakfast (which is a tradition). In the afternoon we resurrected the Nintendo and attempted to teach my mother to play Super Mario Brothers. Much fun was had by all, since none of us had played it in at least five years. We had roast duck for dinner. I forgot how much I like duck.
Dec 26: Not a whole heck of a lot went on, since the weather was still somewhat nasty. It was very windy out. Some family friends came for dinner. My mother has taken to calling them my "fairy godparents" since they're too old to be my adoptive aunt and uncle and I already have two sets of grandparents. These friends have known me all my life and they had four sons, so my sister and I were sort of their honorary daughters. Anyway, it was a standard dinner with friends; lots of food and lots of laughing.
Dec 27: Dad called in the morning and reserved a plane in the afternoon, so we went flying. We went up almost to Hartford and then looped back through Rhode Island. I was sitting in the back seat, and my headphones didn't work, so I couldn't hear any of the radio traffic. It was fun anyway. The air at 3000 feet is pretty damn cold, though, and the vents in the plane leak, so the heated seats in the car on the way home were much appreciated. Duck soup for dinner. (Freedonia's going to waaaaar...) (If you don't know what that means, shame on you, and go look up a Marx Brothers movie called Duck Soup.)
Dec 28: my sister went back to Ann Arbor via Philadelphia. She and her luggage got separated in Philadelphia, but all came out well in the end.
Dec 29: I went for a fairly long walk up to my old elementary school, which is at the top of a hill. I don't care how long your legs are, it's still a LARGE hill. We used to walk to elementary school almost every day. I bet I was a lot healthier then. (Of course I was; my parents still controlled how much of what I ate, back then.)
Dec 30: came back to Boston on the train. I'm going to have to buy most of a new kitchen. All the movable counter space and most of the dishes are leaving in two weeks. The pots and pans are mostly staying, but we won't have anything much to eat off unless I do something. Good thing I got some money for Christmas. The DiMartino family get-together has, of course, been planned for the day Liz is moving. Guess who won't be there?
OK, time to go measure the butcher-block countertop unit and go in search of a replacement. I hope everybody had a good week.
Dec 24: we put the tree up, and after much discussion and three different tree identification books, decided it was a red spruce. We also had the annual argument with the lights; out of two strings, half of one string wouldn't light. We finally threw that string out, after the second year of arguing with it.
Dec 25: due to the weather forecast being utterly nasty, we decided not to drive back to MA for the Deschenes family get-together, so we hung around at home and opened presents and had BLTs for breakfast (which is a tradition). In the afternoon we resurrected the Nintendo and attempted to teach my mother to play Super Mario Brothers. Much fun was had by all, since none of us had played it in at least five years. We had roast duck for dinner. I forgot how much I like duck.
Dec 26: Not a whole heck of a lot went on, since the weather was still somewhat nasty. It was very windy out. Some family friends came for dinner. My mother has taken to calling them my "fairy godparents" since they're too old to be my adoptive aunt and uncle and I already have two sets of grandparents. These friends have known me all my life and they had four sons, so my sister and I were sort of their honorary daughters. Anyway, it was a standard dinner with friends; lots of food and lots of laughing.
Dec 27: Dad called in the morning and reserved a plane in the afternoon, so we went flying. We went up almost to Hartford and then looped back through Rhode Island. I was sitting in the back seat, and my headphones didn't work, so I couldn't hear any of the radio traffic. It was fun anyway. The air at 3000 feet is pretty damn cold, though, and the vents in the plane leak, so the heated seats in the car on the way home were much appreciated. Duck soup for dinner. (Freedonia's going to waaaaar...) (If you don't know what that means, shame on you, and go look up a Marx Brothers movie called Duck Soup.)
Dec 28: my sister went back to Ann Arbor via Philadelphia. She and her luggage got separated in Philadelphia, but all came out well in the end.
Dec 29: I went for a fairly long walk up to my old elementary school, which is at the top of a hill. I don't care how long your legs are, it's still a LARGE hill. We used to walk to elementary school almost every day. I bet I was a lot healthier then. (Of course I was; my parents still controlled how much of what I ate, back then.)
Dec 30: came back to Boston on the train. I'm going to have to buy most of a new kitchen. All the movable counter space and most of the dishes are leaving in two weeks. The pots and pans are mostly staying, but we won't have anything much to eat off unless I do something. Good thing I got some money for Christmas. The DiMartino family get-together has, of course, been planned for the day Liz is moving. Guess who won't be there?
OK, time to go measure the butcher-block countertop unit and go in search of a replacement. I hope everybody had a good week.
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Date: 2002-12-31 07:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-12-31 09:46 am (UTC)I hope Gabby gets better.
Well, poo
Date: 2002-12-31 11:44 am (UTC)