Well here we go.\u00a0 Back to work and hopefully some normalcy to my schedule in general.\u00a0 After the last several weeks of holidays, 1\/2-days, etc, I have a feeling this is going to be a long week.<\/p>\n
It seems like a long time since last Monday…\u00a0 We did a LOT last week.\u00a0 Nothing anyone would be interested in though I imagine.\u00a0 New Years Eve was something of a bust;\u00a0 Nobody seemed very into it this year.\u00a0 (Or maybe just not into celebrating it with us…)\u00a0 For that matter, we weren’t either, so we went down and said “Happy New Year” to everybody at the Brooksider, then went across the street to Carmen’s and picked up some takeout.\u00a0 Went home, ate our delicious dinner, then played Rock Band for a few hours.\u00a0 That got us to about 10:30, and then we popped in a movie.\u00a0 “Tropic Thunder<\/a>” was the show for the evening.\u00a0 As has been the case with any other movie I’ve tried to watch lately, I made it about five minutes into it and fell asleep.<\/p>\n Friday we were absolutely beat down.\u00a0 I can’t recall exactly what the reason was for our extraordinary fatigue, but neither of had any interest what-so-ever in doing anything after work.\u00a0 We had every intention of hunkering down, maybe playing a few games, and going to bed at 8:00.\u00a0 That plan lasted until John & Susan called us and said they were up in Waldo for some happy houring.\u00a0 We were so set on our original plan that they had to work on us for like 20 seconds, but eventually we relented and walked up the street to join them.\u00a0 We hung out in that area for the rest of the evening.\u00a0 We played a few bajillion rounds of\u00a0 “photo match,” the rather kiddish game where you look for the differences between two pictures.\u00a0 I’ve always found it oddly entertaining though;\u00a0 It could well be the only arcade-type game I’ve ever fed a quarter into.\u00a0 After a while though, John got us started on “Buck Hunter<\/a>,” and I have to\u00a0 admit it was a bit more entertaining than the picture game.<\/p>\n Saturday was pretty nice out, so we started on our obligatory New Years fitness program.\u00a0 I fully expect it to last around 8 days if the last few decades are any indicator, but you never know.\u00a0 Donette read somewhere or another that she is supposed to be walking 10,000 steps a day, so she picked up a pedometer, leashed up Gabe, and off we went.\u00a0 We walked all the way down to the grocery store, did a little shopping, and all the way back home.\u00a0 (Roughly 2.5 miles.)\u00a0 Then we drove out to the ‘Dotte and hit Nebraska Furniture Mart, which is a fair amount of walking too.\u00a0 We couldn’t find anything to waste our money on there, so we walked from there to Cabela’s, where remarkably we couldn’t find anything we “needed” either.\u00a0 After that failed shopping expedition, she coicindentally got a hot tip that the ‘Dotte Walmart had Wii Fits in stock though, so our long drive wasn’t wasted.\u00a0 We (or at least I) were a little disappointed to find that all that hiking around only added up to about 6,000 steps.\u00a0 Good grief, exactly how far is<\/strong> 10,000 steps???\u00a0 Farther than I care to walk in a day, that much I have determined.\u00a0 For dinner, we tried out a new recipe I spied the other day, chorizo-stuffed poblanos<\/a>.\u00a0 It was a reasonably successful recipe;\u00a0 I was a bit thrown off by the heat of the poblano peppers.\u00a0 I don’t know if it was because they are “out of season” or what, but they were a lot hotter than I anticipated.\u00a0 Matter of fact, they tasted like chorizo-flavored pain.\u00a0 But, at the same time, oddly tasty<\/strong> pain, so I sat there in a puddle of sweat and mowed through them.\u00a0 After dinner we watched “Hancock<\/a>.”\u00a0 It must be a pretty good movie;\u00a0 I made it about 15 minutes before I fell asleep.<\/p>\n Sunday we once again walked Gabe down to Brookside and did a little grocery shopping.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know if all this walking will do us any good but Gabe is liking it.\u00a0 We sat around the house for most of the afternoon, then the Martins came down and saved us from total boredom.\u00a0 Chris and I went down to the Brooksider and watched some football, and the girls stayed home and did whatever they did.\u00a0 Probably talked bad about us.\u00a0 We headed back home for dinner, and made some kind of lemon-garlic-scallop linguine.\u00a0 It came out pretty good;\u00a0 Much less painful than the previous evening’s entree.\u00a0 After dinner we made them join our band and play some Rock Band II.\u00a0 That was the first time we’ve been able to play with all four people at once;\u00a0 Martin on bass, Donette on guitar, Dakin on vocals and I tried to play drums.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure Martin will be defecting from “Guitars For Christmas” to join the “Physco Tabby Pitbulls” in the near future;\u00a0 He recognizes our vast potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well here we go.\u00a0 Back to work and hopefully some normalcy to my schedule in general.\u00a0 After the last several weeks of holidays, 1\/2-days, etc, I have a feeling this is 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