Semi-sane Christmas
It's mid-afternoon on New Year's Eve - and I'm sitting in my parent's basement wearing noise-canceling headphones. Why, you ask? Well, I'll tell you.
This final weekend of 2005 was to be the 2nd half of our family Christmas....a time of celebration and relaxation with the folks....except that it decided to rain in the biblical sense yesterday, and now their basement is leaking water. So, there are three rather loud wet-dry vacs sucking away the carpets - and thus - I am trying to save my hearing while attempting to beat back the H20. I've been trading water-sucking shifts with my folks for the past 15 hours - and expect to be doing the same until we leave on Sunday. Happy New Year everyone! When it rains it pours...heh.
Thankfully, the downpour has abated somewhat...and the leaking has dried up a little and been isolated to three areas. I can only pray that things continue to improve waterwise before we leave.
++ UPDATE ++
Water eventually dried up after we left and everything turned out ok. Thankfully, I was up late watching a movie that particular night when the leakage commenced...otherwise things could have been a lot worse.
++ BACK TO CHRISTMAS ++
Overall, it was pretty low-impact up at the Crumps in Olympia. Plenty of eating, drinking and laying around. Greer was good for almost being two years old...and the grandparents got plenty of face time with him. The spectre of unemployment and uncertainty hung over me like a little dark cloud, but thankfully there were plenty of distractions. Good Christmas....all in all.
As noted above, we headed over to The Dalles the following weekend to celebrate the holidays with my folks. Aside from the basement leak throwing things into chaos prior to New Years, the parents took good care of us and Alex and I were able to get out to catch "Narnia" while they looked after the boy.
This final weekend of 2005 was to be the 2nd half of our family Christmas....a time of celebration and relaxation with the folks....except that it decided to rain in the biblical sense yesterday, and now their basement is leaking water. So, there are three rather loud wet-dry vacs sucking away the carpets - and thus - I am trying to save my hearing while attempting to beat back the H20. I've been trading water-sucking shifts with my folks for the past 15 hours - and expect to be doing the same until we leave on Sunday. Happy New Year everyone! When it rains it pours...heh.
Thankfully, the downpour has abated somewhat...and the leaking has dried up a little and been isolated to three areas. I can only pray that things continue to improve waterwise before we leave.
++ UPDATE ++
Water eventually dried up after we left and everything turned out ok. Thankfully, I was up late watching a movie that particular night when the leakage commenced...otherwise things could have been a lot worse.
++ BACK TO CHRISTMAS ++
Overall, it was pretty low-impact up at the Crumps in Olympia. Plenty of eating, drinking and laying around. Greer was good for almost being two years old...and the grandparents got plenty of face time with him. The spectre of unemployment and uncertainty hung over me like a little dark cloud, but thankfully there were plenty of distractions. Good Christmas....all in all.
As noted above, we headed over to The Dalles the following weekend to celebrate the holidays with my folks. Aside from the basement leak throwing things into chaos prior to New Years, the parents took good care of us and Alex and I were able to get out to catch "Narnia" while they looked after the boy.
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