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dudes. sorry it's been so long since i last posted. really...uh, i've been busy. i hope everyone's Christmas was excellent and i hope everyone had as much fun ringing in 2010 as i did. here are some photo highlights from the past three weeks:

got suckered into singing with mary ellen's
choir group. it was a lovely service of lessons & carols.

santa brought me a rack to display my
belts. kinda makes me want to train
for a black belt so i can fill that empty slot.

that's mary ann, andy's sis-in-law. andy's dad
gave us belvedere gift sets. the boys got scotch.

granne received a snuggie, just like every other person in america.

john sampled the brussel sprouts. i rather enjoyed them.

cathy, me, naomi (sari i am sorry you didn't make the pic!!)

i got a new digital camera for Christmas. it's waterproof.
i showed it to my friends, and the next thing i know my
camera's in the sink.

christmas gift?

it's not a party without rock band -
andy on the drums, jim on mike, chad on guitar.

here's what i am doing these days:

making my way through the stephanie plum series by janet evanovich. i guess you could classify them as suspense/mystery. and they make me laugh out loud. my friend liz jurick was always pushing me to read them, so i picked up "one for the money" a few years ago, then continued with "two for the dough." both were pretty good but i couldn't find books 3, 4, etc. in any of the thrift stores i frequented so i kinda gave up with the series and went back to harry potter [again]. and then the whole twilight thing happened... anyway, i decided i could finally afford used copies from amazon so i filled in my collection. right now i'm putting these things away at a rate of about one per week. currently on "to the nines." and even though they were written by a female with a female main character i'd say that guys would like them too since there's murder and drugs and weapons and explosions.

new iMac. ok, this is great- i can listen to music, backup my stuff with time machine, edit images, & blog all at the same time. vast improvement from my ibook g4. now i am trying to organize all my photos & mp3s and it's slow-going. didn't get a digital camera until 2003 so all the photos that i scanned don't have the correct date/time stamp. and i'm a freak so everything has to be in the right order of course. i'm looking to buy a video capture device for my new iMac so get ready for some freaking awesome highlights from the crap i watch on tv.