What I Did During My Christmas (Blogging) Vacation (aka: reviews and highlights)
January 1, 2007
Well, we survived our first married Christmas with lots of family and even more traveling. In the end, I think we’re both glad we have a few days to recover before class and work begin again. We’re going to have to work on this bi-coastal family experience in future for vacations, but that is too far away to worry about now. Rather, I will give you my highlights and reviews of things done, seen, and read.
We watched An Inconvenient Truth Saturday night when we got home and I now am of the belief that everyone should watch it. I think the work Al Gore has done and continues to do is amazing and incredibly important. (I feel like if I had lost the presidential election to Bush I might still be moping, but this man has definitely done something productive with his time) Not only is it an incredibly relevant (and urgent) topic for our day and age, but the film is really well done and very engaging. Definitely a must see. Definitely.
This is my husband. He looks easy going, but he can be very stubborn. Unfortunately, for him, not as stubborn as his very tenacious wife. Adam almost always goes to bed after I do; so, when we’re sharing a room (like on vacation) it’s Adam’s job to turn off the light before he goes to sleep. Well, one night Adam decided to go to bed when I did, so we had no one to turn off the light. The result was both of us lying in bed waiting for the other person to get up and turn off the light. We both tried to pretend we were sleeping so the other person would have to get up, but inevitably after five or six seconds we’d start giggling. Adam held out almost five minutes, but in the end he decided to take the “high road” and turn off the light. And victory is mine. Thank you.
Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh may not be great literature, but considering I read it all on the plane ride from Rochester to Seattle, I think it’s pretty good. It is an engaging story and definitely worth picking up should you want to escape your own life for a little while, or simply pass time quickly.
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson, on the other hand, might be consider great literature. Or perhaps not, but still a great book and definitely worth reading. The novel blends “case histories” or glimpses of different people’s lives into one story with a murder at the heart of it all.
Caroling. Mmm. Adam’s family is big into caroling. Every year they carol through nursing homes and hospitals and to elderly folks who don’t get out much. It combines both holiday cheer and good outreach. It also goes for four hours. Adam can tell you that I’m not much of a caroler. I once sang in choirs and did all that good stuff, but have since put it behind me. I am, perhaps, the most reluctant of carolers. But, tradition is tradition and so we caroled.
My brother’s girlfriend got Little Miss Sunshine for Christmas and let us borrow it, since neither of had seen it. Probably you’ve already watched it, but if you haven’t, you should. We both laughed, cringed, and stared in abject horror sometimes all at the same time. Good movie.
Well, there was more, but that’s enough for now. Two more days until class starts (Adam, sadly, decided not to take a class this Jan term and will have to stay home while I get up every morning for class; but, it’s okay because he’s going to do all the cooking and cleaning for us - yay!!! (if I write it on a blog that makes it true right??))
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