surprisingly productive.

Whew! What a few days!
Yesterday, we had a 12 hour drive from Warren to Williamsburg. It went smoothly, the weather was perfect and we made really good time. Our cats had survived the days without anyone, since I gave Megan K. (aka "Megan Senior") the wrong key. There were cracker packages chewed through and left all over the floor and an empty cat treat can. Poor kitties! They drank water for about 10 minutes, took a break, then drank some more. Last night, both the cats slept with us, cuddled nice and close. Gabriel has been purring and near us all day long.
We spent last night with Megan and Corey, watching a SNL special and making fun of all the other NYE specials. David and I were exhausted from the drive, the clean up of the house and then staying up past midnight, so we didn't stay too long after the ball dropped.

Today has been very productive. I got up earlier than I have all break (mostly because it'll help with getting up tomorrow, ugh.) and made a to do list. I unpacked my bag, washed the trip off of me, and reorganized stuff in my bathroom to accomodate all the new bath/beauty products (and cute cosmetics bag from mike). We headed to former Food Lion, now Bloom (think Farm Fresh or D&W with a Harding's past, for those of you outside of this area) and as we were heading in, we saw a few people leaving with those reusable grocery bags from Ukrop's and Trader Joe's. We started discussing how we should've gone to Meijer when we were there and picked a few up. When we walked in, though, bam! 3 Bloom reusable bags were sitting right there, for $1 each. Awesome. The good day continued when we went to New Town to use up some gift cards and find a weekly planner I saw at B&N with Frida Kahlo artwork (it was still there and 50% off- yesss!!). We got home, rearranged the computer room so it works a lot better, put the Christmas decorations into storage as well as suitcases and other random stuff, cleaned up and whew! Most of my to do list is done and it's only 4. Thank goodness, cause I'm tired and need to figure out what I'm going to do with those students Wednesday-Friday. I don't know how many kids (or teachers, for that matter) are going to show up for a 3 day week--a lot of them don't show up for Thanksgiving week.
Right now, though, we're watching the hockey game between Pittsburg and Buffalo, played outside in the snow. Later today or tomorrow, I'll share pictures and a run down of the holidays. I still have a few things on that to do list to finish.