It’s Beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Kyllan 4 Comments

I just want to complain about the fact it is now 25 degrees outside and it was 79 degrees yesterday.  Yes… a 55 degree swing.  William doesn’t want to hear it.  It is -7 in Denver right now and I am sure it is much worse with the wind chill.  But… Denver is known for being cold.  Dallas… not so much.  It has been known to see drastic temperature changes, but this was more drastic than usual.  The other thing about cold weather in Dallas is that if it rains and turns into freezing rain, which = ice on the roads, people in Dallas DO NOT know how to drive.  They decide to drive 5 miles per hour, which is a bad idea.  They also like to put on the breaks when they hit ice….another bad idea.  The good news is that is looks like the forecast shows us warming back up to 68 on Saturday, but the bad news is that the low on Saturday night is 28.  I know it could be much worse, so I will stop complaining now.  My blood just seems to freeze in my veins when it is this cold.  Perhaps I should rethink my suggestion to William yesterday that we go skiing while he is in Colorado.

Season’s Greetings!

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Wow… it seems like a long time since we have made a post…. oh wait… it has been a long time.  As you are probably already aware, the site was down a few separate times over the last week, but William worked with the host and I think we have worked out all the glitches.

William and I have had a good December thus far.  We got to see each other on back to back weekends!!  That usually does not happen, so it was great.  He was at home (in Dallas) for Thanksgiving and then back again this past weekend for my company’s Christmas party.  I was very glad he was able to come b/c my boss had spread rumors around about me having a husband who was just a figment of my imagination and did not really exist (jokingly) since most of my co-workers had not met William before, except for a few who met him briefly at the wedding.  So the whole night, people were coming over and saying “you really do exist!” and it was good to introduce him to everyone.  We both had a nice time and stayed overnight in a luxury suite at the hotel that hosted our party, the Adolphus, which is a very luxurious and historic hotel in downtown Dallas that opened in 1912 by Adolphus Busch.  It was awesome!!  The suite was more like an apartment than a hotel room.  You can find pictures on my flickr page.

Well…. I hope everyone is enjoying the Christmas season!

Thanksgiving Plans

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I fly down to Dallas this Tuesday to spend Thanksgiving with Kyllan. My parents and Kyllan’s sister’s famliy (I think) plan to join us for dinner on Thursday. Considering all the people from Dallas that will be there, I am sure we will catch the Cowboys game on TV Thursday. Kyllan and I will be attending our 2nd Dallas Stars game Friday. Saturday will probably be our day for putting up the Christmas tree.

What are you watching?

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The new TV season is about a month old. What shows are you guys watching? I watched a bunch of the new show initially, but the only ones I enjoyed and continue to watch are Life on Mars and Fringe. Life on Mars is a remake of a Britsh show of the same title that I really enjoyed. It is about a current day police detective who is hit by a car and wakes up in 1973. It is unclear if the lead character is dreaming while in a coma, in purgatory or actually traveled through time. Each episode usually features a crime of the week that is somehow linked to his life in 2008… I think the British verison was a better. Fringe is being hailed as the new X-files. It is about a FBI agent who works with a mentaly unstable, discredited scientist and his genuis son to investigate a series of mysteriously linked crimes that also seem to be connected to the doctor’s old research. Unlike the simarly themed British remake Eleventh hour, where a man with a Ph.D. in apparently every field known to man yells things like “No amount of money in the world will stop the virus that is raging a was inside of you” to infected bad guys, Fringe knows that it is not exactly based in reality. Returning shows that I’ve been watching include the Tina Fey’s 30 rock, offbeat crime serial Life and spy comedy Chuck. Of course my two favorite shows, 24 and Battlestar Galatica haven’t started yet.

South Africa

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My parents recently took  a trip to South Africa. Below are some comments my mom made about the trip. I was hoping to link to some photos of the trip, but my father hasn’t bothered to upload them yet. I am going to stay on him. Maybe we will see some soon.

We [Bill and Betty] returned from South Africa last week [now three weeks ago] on Monday, October 27th from an eleven day trip.  It was a wonderful trip.  We went with a delegation representing Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.  We visited Johannesburg, Sun City (which is a resort city), and Cape Town.  Our trip included a visit to an elementary school and an orphanage.  The group took school supplies to the school and made monetary contributions to the orphanage.  This was the second trip to South Africa for Bill and me.  We were happy to see the growth there since our visit in 2001.  New buildings were going up everywhere and there were lots of street expansions.  Bill had a chance to play golf in Cape Town.  We visited a winery and brought back two bottles of wine.   We visited four museums that explained different aspects of struggles and endurance by the people before and during apartheid.  We saw lively and colorful entertainment and enjoyed several authentic South African meals.  We visited Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent most of his prison time.  We went to the top of Table Mountain and  enjoyed the spectacular view.Our tour included a botanical garden, and the group even took a safari.  We celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary in South Africa.  It was a day we will always remember, it ended with a candle light steak dinner with our group.  There were champagne toasts and  dancing.  Some members of our group arranged for the pianist to play two love songs just for us.  People in South Africa were very excited about our then up coming election.  I know they celebrated on November 4th with the rest of the world.

Hanging out with the fam in Cleveland

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This past weekend, Kim, Drew and I went to Cleveland to visit the fam, and more importanly… see the new kitchen!! It was sad we had not seen it in person yet, so we finally got to bask in the wonderfulness of it. Drew had such a good time that he wanted to “stay in Cleveland until Christmas.” I think he enjoyed being around his cousins. We were only there a short time, but we got to see almost all of the fam, except my aunt and uncle who were out of town. We also got to meet the newest addition to the family, Tristan (my cousin Terrance’s youngest daughter), who is soooo adorable. We got the chance to see my mom’s new school building as well, which is MUCH improved from the previous building. Being in the cold weather reminded me why I like Texas so much, but it was nice to see the fall foliage.  To see all the pictures from the weekend, click here to visit my Flickr page.