Frog and Goat

I just looked back at entries for this year and boy did I slack off. I need to be better about coming here to tell you things.

Good things from this year:
We went to Annapolis, Duck and Washington.
I went to Knoxville and hated my class but liked the town.
We started brewing beer.
We sold a house and bought a new one.
We love our new house and the neighborhood.
I got a job and then I was part of a re-org, but still ended up doing something I like.
We saw 14 shows this year.
Started going to Farmer’s Market and taking advantage of Relay Foods and the local market down the street.

Bad things from this year:
Can’t think of much that was terrible.

It seems very wrong to have the windows open on December 21st. But, it’s 70 degrees out and why not air out the house?

I prefer cold weather in the winter, but I have to admit that walking around in a t-shirt and bare feet isn’t too awful. I just don’t want this weather to last more than a day or two.

This coming week is the first time in many years that I’m working every day but Christmas. This is what happens when you don’t have tenure and have very few days off. The good news is that I’ll get to park in the deck attached to the building instead of the one down the street. And I think all of my usual meetings have been postponed or cancelled. It will be nice to not have to run hither and yon attending meetings.

All was merry and bright:

We spent a few chilly days in Washington this weekend. Way back in the summer our friend wanted to do the trip, but we said there was no way we wanted to walk around the city in 90+ degree weather with a bunch of other tourists. So instead we went this weekend, easily the coldest days of the year.

I sort of hoped I’d see a little boy riding a tricycle through the halls of our hotel:

We ate under this crocodile one morning. I snapped the picture and texted it to one of my sisters. We were scared of a wooden one at my grandparents when we were children:

This morning was the first time we felt we could hold still long enough to take pictures…the wind howled yesterday and so standing still was not an option.

View from the hotel room…

I know the picture is for crap (taken with the iPad) and you probably can’t tell the flag in the picture is whipping, but you should know it is really windy on the east coast and we just heard the wind howl. Kind of looking forward to being out in the chill tonight and tomorrow.