Ice Jam

Angie and I spent, what seems like, all weekend chopping ice from our driveway. You don't shovel snow one time and look what happens. There is now a 5 inch high "curb" of ice to climb when leaving our driveway. The driveway's clean now though.

I'm not supposed to say anything, but there are now three "women" in the house. Abby's had her first monthly visitor this weekend. Eleven seems awful young to us.

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Matt

Prowler

I've always been a morning person, but the more I roam at night, the more I like it. Maybe it's because, during the winter, the night starts about 5pm.

Blessed

What a great Christmas day we've had. Everything about it has been great. Everyone has been getting along all day (I shouldn't have said that), everyone is in a great mood, it's been fantastic. I think this will go into our memory banks as one of the great ones. We didn't get carried away with presents this year, we didn't have the money. We did focus on what's really important though. For me, it helped that the sun was shining and that it got warm. Well 40 degrees is warm after what we've had.

I hope your Christmas was as good as ours.

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Matt

Merry Christmas

I hope you have a great Christmas.

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Matt

Baked

Yesterday was our annual "Baking Day". As much as I love cookies, I'm glad this day happens just once a year. I bet I ate 10 cookies yesterday. That's probably why I have a headache today.

Christmas is drawing near. One more shopping outing today and we'll be done I think. I wish we could afford to do more for people. Someday.

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Matt

Redemption

It's been a busy week. It gets this way at Christmas time. There's always too much going on.

Angie & I went to see Glenn Beck's Christmas Show last night. It was pretty good.

I pulled some muscles in my back brushing my teeth Tuesday morning. Stupid, I know. It's been a long week. I'm glad tomorrow's Friday.

Glenn Beck spoke last night about Christmas being a time of redemption. A time to start over. I've been paying attention to our Advent readings this year. That's what they're saying too. That's what Christmas is about.

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Matt

Bird's Eye

I had an all day work meeting on the 40th floor of 801 Grand today. I brought my pocket camera just in case the view was good. This is a shot of the sunrise this morning from about 600 feet up. The sun didn't stick around for long though. We got about 4 inches of new snow today.

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Matt

Memories

Angie & I were talking about our earliest memories last night. For both of us, they're of Christmas. When we were kids, Christmas was the biggest day of the year. It's the big day. I hope we're helping our kids make good memories too.

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Matt

Anal

I'm a meticulous person by nature, and fairly obsessive. This is a fault mostly, but sometimes a benefit. I'm picky about everything, which causes some rifts. I'm obsessive too. When I get into something, it's in the front of my head all the time, wanting to control my thoughts. It's a struggle sometimes to concentrate on other things.

My middle daughter has picked up my obsessive gene it seems. This will help her become a great sax or guitar player, if she can put down the stupid teen magazines.

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Matt