Last day of vacation...

Last official day of vacation...or unemployment, however you want to look at it. And I think I will soon be a bike commuter! We are very near a bike trail that goes up to downtown Durham, and it's easy to get to my Duke office building from there. Tim would have to drive me maybe a mile or two to the trail head, since there is no shoulder on the road or bike lane, but then it would be an easy 10 mile ride or so.

I'm thinking of getting something like this -- a nice commuter bike that will be comfy and fun to ride on. Nothing like Bianca, the wonderful Bianchi road bike I used to have when I was with Mark, but I'm not intending to put those kind of miles on a bike again. When I had Bianca, Mark and I would often go out for rides of 30-70 miles. I actually biked a century (100 miles in one go) on her. Now, I want a bike I can take on bike trails and bike paths, nice, easy rides.

And today, we are getting new phones (no, not the fun, snazzy iphone, just a new verizon phone). It's weird to be getting new regular cell phones on a day when even the mayor of Philadelphia is caught camping for the most anticipated phone. Maybe someday, when the prices drop to a reasonable level! lol. We are actually going to wander by an apple store tonight, to see how crazy people are getting over the iphone. Can you imagine people getting this excited for a new microsoft product, like a Zune phone? I don't think so...

Drooooooooool

The only car I really love and go nuts for. WANT this.

Click on the link, then click on the photo at the top of the page. So very pretty.

Mini Cooper Convertible

and a very merry christmas!

We did it! We waited until Christmas morning to open most of our (wrapped!) gifts. Definitely a first for us.

We were both really happy with everything. T got me a new knife set with really nice knives (they make such a huge difference, it's a lot easier and more comfortable to cut things now), nice baking sheets (it was a very cooking-focused christmas, and I love it), a down lap duvet from Restoration Hardware, new comfywarm slippers, not to mention my pizza stone and nice martini glasses.

He loved his down vest, smartwool shirt and socks, books, new tool cd, popcorn bowl and other stuff.

We bought Myra a stocking full of toys from Petsmart, and put them in her stocking, with one sticking out the top. She was so excited, she had never had so many new toys all at once, she didn't know what to play with first. At one point, she managed to lay on top of most of her hoard. She promptly destroyed the two tennis balls and then defluffed a stuffed reindeer, but she looked very happy while she was doing it. She still has a few new toys left, and she is getting three new tuffy toys from my parents that she can tug on and chew on and not destroy.

I made blueberry oat muffins that were incredibly good, and we watched some of the extras on the Firefly discs. The extras were cool and funny and sad all at the same time, because they had this great show that didn't even get to live for a full season. And now we are getting ready for our holiday casserole (cauliflower, tomato, potato casserole with leek/cheese sauce) and will probably watch a movie.

No stress, no drama, just a nice day for the three of us.

Merry Christmas!

christmas eve will find me...

where I long to be.

What a perfect, very Tim and Kelly christmas eve.

Tim watched football during the afternoon, I did some knitting, then went to Tryon Creek for a long run through the mist and fog and mud, having fun being a little wild mudbeast. Tim wrapped presents while I was gone, we planned what we wanted for Christmas morning (I'm going to make blueberry oat muffins) and christmas dinner, and then opened one present (initially, but T had me open two) each. (We gave Myra one of her presents, a stuffed animal stocking face thing, that she immediately ran off with to kiss and hug).

I had said I wanted to pick up some wine or drinks and get a little buzzed and watch a movie, so Tim had me open one of my presents that related. He got me really cool martini glasses, apple martini mix and apple sugar rim. Mmm! And these are my first alcohol glasses, I feel so grown up lol.

We decided to do pizza and munchies for dinner tonight, prompting Tim to give me another present, even though I kept saying I didn't want to open any more presents. I got a pizza stone! A really nice pizza stone, I love it. I can't wait to use it with homemade dough or Trader Joe's whole wheat pizza dough.

We watched Zathura, which is a really cute, funny movie, and oddly feels like a christmas/holiday movie even though it had nothing to do with christmas.

"What do they eat?"
"Meat."
"Oh, that's good."
"Dude, your meat." :)

Then we decided we had to open stockings as well, and we both loved our stockings. I got Tim a book on how to be a villain, he loved it :) I got a wind-proof umbrelly that has a light on it, so I can actually see where I am walking at night with the mutt.

We had lots of fun, and I can't wait for tomorrow morning for Tim to open his stuff, I had so much fun buying things for him. And of course, I want to see my loot as well.

Warning, freaks ahead

Playing around with Photo Booth on the laptop

Nice Tim and Kelly







Two Kellys, Evil Tim









Tim breaking my brain









Sponge Tim Square Kelly









HELP!! A monster is after me!

I NEED this

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I could always be warm!!