1. On Friday night I took Liz to see White Christmas at the Wang Theater downtown.  We don’t go to a lot of things like this so it was a big deal for us.  The theater was STUNNING.  It was absolutely gorgeous.  Our seats were good the show was outstanding and everything worked out great.
2. On the way home from work I swung by the opticians and picked up my new eyeglasses.  They certainly have more power than the old ones.  When I change my focus from, say the screen to the keyboard, I find it a little disorienting.  I guess maybe i just have to get used to it.
3. On Saturday the kids went to their last swim lesson and had a good time with their free swim.  All three of the older kids have now advanced to a point where I would call them “swimmers”.  The youngest still needs some work, but she’s only five so that’s ok.  Afterwards we came home and took care of some chores.  Liz wasn’t feeling well around lunch time so I took the kids to a Chinese buffet for lunch.  Eh … the food was awful, but the kids found things they liked so I think they will be open to eating Chinese food later on.  Then we went to three different post offices trying to mail some packages - one was closed, one had no parking and at the third there was some technical malfunction that shut the place down.  It was very frustrating.  So, in an effort to turn the day around we got our Christmas tree and brought it home.  We decorated it and got it all set up.  It came out nice, but has a small problem where its leaning to one side and I haven’t fixed it yet.  I got some good pictures of the kids decorating the tree. So Saturday worked out well.  I’m a sucker for Christmas.
4. Sunday.  ugh.  It started snowing around 4am and then around 10am, after about eight or nine inches, it turned over to ice and freezing rain.  In the afternoon it was just freezing rain.  The initial batch of snow was light and fluffy so me and the boys ran out and shoveled a lot of it around 10am.  That was a big help, I think, because when it turned to rain all that dry snow soaked up all the water and made it REALLY heavy.  That eff-ing plow came by several times while I was shoveling creating a VERY large and VERY heavy berm of ice and frozen slush.  Each time I would dig out the drive way and each time that son-of-a-gun would come back and deposit more slush.  My back is killing me today.  In the evening we went to a friend’s house for a small Christmas party.  unfortunately, her other guests never made it.  For some it was the weather.  For others, their unruly children couldn’t be allowed out of the house.  But it gave us a chance to visit with people we don’t normally get a lot of one-on-one time with.  And it was a good visit.  Very enjoyable.
5. When we got home the berm had returned so we shoveled a little.  This morning all the slush and soft/fluffy snow had frozen rock hard in the 15 degree overnight temperatures.  EVERYTHING was frozen.  I had previously asked the kids to dig out the rest of the slush, but now there was no point - they wouldn’t be able to do anything with it.  They have a snow-day today.  The roads are fine, but the sidewalks are impassible and many of the town’s kids walk to school.  The superintendent didn’t want the kids to have to compete with the morning’s commuters on the road, so he called school off for the day.  It was a good move, I think.

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