Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Snow Quest

Around 7am this morning, it started to snow again.
We still had a couple of inches from the last go round, but now it started hard & heavy.

The base has a whole color code system to know whether or not the roads are passable, who’s allowed on them & if the base is even open at [...]

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Reprieve

When we first arrived in Korea, everyone was afraid of Maggie – including the custodian.

But as he began to realize she wasn’t going to swallow him whole, his fear turned into fascination.

And for months he’s been trying to convince Maggie that he’s not going to swallow her whole.

Slowly turning her fear turned into fascination.

Before yesterday, their [...]

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Semi-Retired Procrastinator

It used to be that every Christmas I waited until the absolute, positively last minute to wrap my presents - of course, that was BE (before Eric).
I made a whole tradition out of it, actually - on Christmas Eve put in the Sound of Music DVD, light some candles (I didn’t have a fireplace), pour myself an ice-cold Ginger Ale [...]