post-christmas post

christmas was 2 days ago. seems like longer. we had a super good time that day, though. it was relaxing. we sat by the fire and opened presents. the meatloaf was excellent. kara gave me a scanner and when i figure out how to use it i'll be posting all sort of wild images, to be sure. so far, though, i'm confused by that machine. still - watch this space!

we got good news yesterday. our front door is coming! it's going to be installed on january 9, or 2 weeks from yesterday. oh how i'm looking forward to that day! the current front door is so swollen we have to tug and tug and tug to get it open. it's beyond aggravating and i end up cursing violently when i finally am able to yank it open.

and someone is coming to perform a routine maintenance on our furnace in just under 3 weeks, on january 16. i think that's all the service calls we can expect for the time being. that's enough. the furnace is running fine, though the little control panel on the wall is advising us to change the filter. of course we don't know how to access the filter. the thing needs to be serviced anyway, as i say, as a matter of routine.

wait - no. kara also got us tivo as a christmas present (how exciting!), and i think someone's going to come to the house to hook that up. how hopeless am i? i bet kara could manage to do it but we'll probably pay a professional to pay us a visit. so that's 3 imminent visitations. our social life is burgeoning!

yellow misses rumble. it's pretty clear. he's a sad cat these days. and max woke us up at 2:30 this morning to tell us he wanted to go outside. kara got up and let him out and just as soon as he came back in he took a shit on the floor. clever dog, he. he is becoming increasingly demented. he is on tramadol for the pain.

so i work tomorrow, then have 2 days off. i work sunday and am off monday for new year's. i like these splintered workweeks. they go smoothly. these 40-hour workweeks leave me with little energy to do anything else. what a bad idea they are. next week, when the new year does start, i will be writing again. a short story per month in 2007 is the plan. plus i want kara and i to get cracking on the household projects we have in mind. we've been putting such things off for too long and i think it's past time we get off our butts.