As part of the coming new year, the weblog will be updated more frequently than once a month. Really. As usual, when lots of things are happening there isn’t time for weblog entries; of course, that’s when I really should be recording what’s happening in my life, but it never works out that way.

2010 DEC 17 : FRIDAY
It was the Kai’s last day at school for a while; they are on vacation for the next week. He had a holiday party at school, but I ended up not staying for it as I was distracting the kiddies.
I did manage to finish grouting the the upstairs bathroom. It was kinda an ugly job; in reality we should just replace the tiles completely, but we want to be able to use the shower sooner rather than later, so I patched worst of things. Hopefully nothing will leak.

I retrieved the Kai and then picked up Amanda from work. While discussing what to do about dinner, AC called up and invited us over for pizza, so we had a fun evening with the AC/MC clan.

2010 DEC 18 : SATURDAY
For some reason I can’t remember exactly what happened.
At various points during the day I sanded down the new grout in the bathroom. I also sealed it. Actually, all the fumes and grout particles I inhaled probably account for my lack of memory.

Amanda did some holiday shopping. She also had to round at the hospital as she is on call on the medicine service for a week.
We made chili for dinner.

2010 DEC 19 : SUNDAY
A sunny day. We went over to CG and MR’s place up in Phinney Ridge. I had not seen CG in a long long time; the progeny wrecked havoc with our social lives obviously. Amanda ran into her recently at Harborview and made plans to to meet up for brunch.
Since I had last seen her, she had gotten married, sold her old house, and is now expecting a progeny of her own. Time flies.

Rather than heading out for brunch, we just ate at their place; they made a tasty frittata which we had with fruit and scones and muffins and faux meat products brought by us. It was good to reconnect with CG and meet her spouse whom apparently I met before but did not remember (pre their relationship). Unfortunately, Fritz (their cat) was vaporish, so I did not get to see him.

I dropped Amanda off at Harborview so that she could round and took the Kai back home for his nap. He wanted to hear all about Ate Sutra, so we looked at my old photo albums before the nap.

Amanda took the light rail home. I did a bit of cleaning and random crap.

When she got home, I took off to Macpherson’s and Safeway to get some stuff for dinner. JH and DH were coming over with their doggie.

Amanda made a onion tart, while I made a kale salad and roasted red potatoes. the H’s brought some bread plus dessert. Dinner was tasty and it was great to hang out with the H’s and their doggie. Armando was not happy with the doggies presence, though. While removing him from an altercation one time, he scratched the hell out of one of my hands and arms… even leaving one of his claws in my thumb!!! Only the part that gets shed anyway, but it still looked pretty crazy sticking out of my thumb.

I thought Amanda was going to come down after putting the Kai to bed, but she probably fell asleep. I cleaned up after dinner, did some computer maintenance, and (edit 2012.01.22: rest of post lost in the aether)