Today is the last day of my Christmas vacation. I’m bummed :( Not at the prospect at going back to work. I don’t mind work. More at the prospect of leaving my winter wonderland. I love my house here. I love my time here. The huskies love their snow time here. Being here makes me happy.
It’s been a fun vacation. Didn’t do everything I wanted to but did a lot. Ice skating was high on my list but it’s so crowded here for the holidays with tourists, it makes more sense to wait a week or 2.
Leading up to my time off, I was so busy and stressed out to get stuff done that I didn’t have time to look forward to my time off! But once I got here, instant decompression. It was a white Christmas which was key for me. Christmas Eve and Day were nice even though husband was sick. Made a yummy ham that we are still eating the leftovers from :) Made some yummy food this vacation – but tooooo terribly unhealthy! The penne with Italian sausage was my favorite I think – numnumnum!
I got some movie watching done which was high on my list too! Watched:
Love Actually (Christmas tradition)
Christmas Story (another tradition)
Die Hard on Christmas morning :)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (Travolta plays such a great bad guy)
Paranormal Activity (boring)
District 9 (good!)
Inglorious Basterds (good!)
I also finished 2 fun books and started another. And even got through one of my past Vanity Fair magazines! I am so behind in my VF reading. Ever since Dominick Dunne stopped writing his column, I don’t rush to open them as quickly as I used to. But still some good articles and nice pictures :)
Friends came up for New Year’s and we had a fun blue moon shoe hike, 2 fun dinners (1 in and 1 out) and a nice New Year’s Eve at 2 mellow neighbor parties and still safely and warmly in bed by 1am :)
Regular season football is coming to end today. This saddens me too. Even though I got knocked out of fantasy – boo!! I won Survivor and 4 weekly pools so far so can’t really complain – fun AND profitable season :) Watched some exciting football games this past 2 weeks for sure (MNF – MIN at CHI was GREAT!) Plus watched the Gators and Tim Tebow dominate in the Sugar Bowl. That was nice :) I would LOVE to see Alabama lose miserably to Texas this week to make that even more fun :)
The most important thing is that I got a LOT of snow play (and exercise!) in with the huskies. That was my main goal :) Every single day we went out for multiple snow walks and hikes. And the weather definitely cooperated. Tons of snow and nice cold weather for the boys. I think this December is one of the best Decembers in recent history for snow. YAY! So hopefully January – March cooperates as well. We walked through our neighborhood pre-plowing so it was deep, we hiked up snow trails, went snowshoeing (well, the huskies don’t use shoes!), played in snow piles and dug snow caves. Pretty sure they had a good time! I know I did :)
So a nice vacation for sure. And thankfully I get to come back next weekend if I want – hopefully to some fresh snow! :)
9:39 pm on January 4th, 2010
Love the pics of your poochies – they look like wolves wandering the tundra. ;)
I want to see Inglourious Basterds and esp. District 9 – people keep telling me how good District 9 is.
Love Actually – hmmm…you know there are certain parts of that movie I like but I much prefer Bridget Jones’s Diary as my holiday treat. About A Boy is good too – I think they’re all made by the same production team.
Glad you had a great holiday – hope you’re feeling well. ;)
Happy New Year!
10:28 pm on January 4th, 2010
They are quite wolf-like :)
District is pretty good – I recommend it. I love, love, love Love actually. I liked Bridget Jones. I really liked About a Boy. But something about Love Actually makes me smile and all warm every single time I watch it. I really like the intertwining stories, all the great actors and it’s all positive. Kinda like Quentin Tarantino movies but with cute love stories instead of blood and guts ;)
Happy New Year to you and *clink of the glasses* to a great 2010 :)
12:08 pm on January 5th, 2010
Your movie choices are not what I would have picked but that’s probably a good thing. I never got Tarantino movies and this one was especially bad I thought – but again, it’s against the tide.
Setting that aside the pictures are lovely and I’m happy for you as it sounds like you were able to enjoy your time away.
Ugh – welcome back to the real world – quite the adjustment so far on my end.
12:20 pm on January 5th, 2010
Heh..well, husband was there too so I had to watch movies we both liked/wanted to see. But I like them all (Love Actually is an all-time favorite of mine. me=sap.) If I was alone, I would have included TESB, Less Than Zero, Wall Street and my still unwatched Wonder Woman animated movie! And some episodes from my newly purchased Angel complete series DVD set :)
I think I liked Brad Pitt’s accent the most from that movie. Cracked me up every time he talked. Kept me entertained but True Romance is a much better movie – probably my favorite Tarantino movie. And Brad Pitt was pretty hysterical in that too! Pulp Fiction was good – I liked John Travolta (and Harvey Keitel) best.
The real world needs to go away now…