It is the day after xmas. I am working. Amanda is at home with her parents and sister. Or perhaps they are painting the town red.
Over the previous weekend, we didn’t do all that much. Cleaned the house and whatnot before all the visitors came. Amanda went grocery shopping with Mandy. We had dinner with Eve at Mioposto. She is on call for five or so days while Karl is back in Pennsylvania. She and Amanda also made many cookies. We saw Blade Runner‘s final edition. Amanda does not appreciate it as much as I do.
I have been to the airport quite a bit. We picked up Dave from the airport the other day (23rd?) when his planned trip to Michigan was denied due to snowy weather. Amanda’s parents came in within minutes of each other on the 24th (from Cleveland and Cincinnati). Susan came in around 2pm on the 25th.
Since it was convenient, we ate at a salad/soup buffet on the way back from the airport on the 24th after picking up Amanda’s parents. We just relaxed at home, had lasagna for dinner, finally cooked and processed the pumpkins we had grown (and the one given to us by our realtor) that were sitting on our porch, and started to watch the Mummy Returns. I was the only one to stay up and finish it, though.
On the 25th, we did a lot of cooking before Susan arrived. Amanda and her mom did most of the cooking, though. It was snowing when I picked up Susan; she said people at the airport said that it had not snowed on xmas in Seattle in 65 years. We ate pretty much right after Susan arrived… yams, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls, cranberries, mushroom gravy, chicken for the chicken eaters, and a bit of fish for me. We also had Italian Cream Cake and pumpkin pie. Amanda got me a $16 pinot noir from Erath… a decadent bottle compared to the $3 bottles I normally consume nowadays.
We weren’t going to get gifts this year, but Amanda decided at the last moment that we would do a white elephant gift thing amongst ourselves. As it turned out the gifts were a chocolate salmon, smoked salmon, an appointment book, Clueless, and Elf and Finding Neverland. Amanda and I bought the salmon items, and we received all the movies.
I konked out after we opened the gifts for a few hours while everyone else watched Clueless.
I do not know what the rest of the day holds. Amanda will be going to an OB appointment later. She apparently wants to go to El Sombrero again for dinner; we have been going a lot recently, but she cannot resist.