I’m laying around at home watching HGTV while Ryan is at Sam’s place watching The Dark Knight. I keep thinking that I should update the site, but I don’t know what to talk about. Ryan and I have been busy, but not with anything interesting (I assume that your eyes would glaze over faster than Ryan’s do if I told you about all the non-fiction books I was reshelving at the library). We did join a bowling league with some of my coworkers, so we’ve been making it to that about every-other week, and that’s been fun. Neither of us are great bowlers, but neither is anyone else on the team, so that’s ok. It’s more about getting out and hanging out with people.

We went to Ryan’s company Christmas party last weekend in Grand Rapids. It was pretty fun – since it was out of town, we stayed over night at the hotel they had it at (at a reduced rate! Score!). They had great food, and it was fun to hang out and visit with some of his coworkers. They are some pretty neat people. And the after-party is always a good time!

My work party is next Friday, and should also be fun. Spouses aren’t invited, but we take a half day off work for the actual party, and then spouses join us for the “after party” at one of the bars in town. It is a good time every year.

I am mostly done with my Christmas shopping for this year, which is really unusual for me. But for some reason this year I had some decent ideas of what I wanted to do early on. That and some of it is a lot easier. My sisters and I are doing a white elephant type of exchange rather than buying gifts, which should be fun. And it meant I didn’t have to buy anything, which made it a lot easier.

My train of thought process isn’t really working today, so none of this is really connected, and I don’t really know where to go from here. It’s interesting that now that I have more things technically going on, I have less to say about it. I think I’m going to be ringing a Salvation Army bell with some coworkers next week. Maybe that will provide some good stories of interesting people. Also, don’t ask me why I’ve suddenly decided to donate half of my free time to random stuff. Ryan told me I needed a hobby, and I figure that since we don’t have money to donate to causes I should donate my time instead. Or something like that. Anyway, it makes the weeks go by really quickly…so summer should be back before I know it, right?!

Oh, and I’m getting highlights for the first time ever professionally next week. I’m kind of excited, but nervous too. I’ll try to post a photo afterward. If I can remember how to do that. This is all a little too complicated for me.

Tell me how scatterbrained you are this holiday season. It will make me feel better about the randomness of this entry!