Wednesday, Zack had a basketball game in Hastings and Josie was playing football with the cousins in ST. Paul.  I went to Zack's game and stopped by my brother Joe's house to pick up Josie on the was home and got sucked into playing wheel of fortune with some of the kids.  I was partnered with Vince, who's five.  I knew what the puzzle was but didn't know how to work the controls so everything I told Vince to do was wrong and we got crushed.  Now Vince think's I'm stupid.  Oh well, some things can't be helped.

Thursday there was another party at my brother Andy's house.  ViAnne made a huge pot of chili and we all did our durndest to eat what was left of the Christmas cookies.  Then we played "Pop Culture" trivia pursuit and I was on a team with Mom and Dad.  Between three of us, we barely knew who Brittany was, so we got killed.  We almost won anyway, but Joe caught us cheating.  Stupid game.

Friday and Saturday Jay had games, in fact, MCTC hosted a tournament.  I didn't go.  I was exhausted from too much fun, food, wine, late nights...and I hadn't had any quality time with the new Bose sound system on the tv downstairs.  So I skipped the games and instead watched The Sound of Music with Molly.

I don't remember why Molly was here.  Maybe I just hang out with five year olds now.  Wouldn't be the strangest thing I've ever done.  Molly's cool.

Just as I was about to go to bed, Jay came home, all happy to have won two games in his tourny and ready to watch Pirates of the Caribbean II on the big screen.

Well, I'm not about to go to sleep when I know Johnny Depp's in the house.  The movie ended at 2:06 a.m.

The next day was new year's eve.  I thought maybe I'd get to bed early then.  Seriously.

Jay and I have a great tradition on New Years; we get rid of the kids and stay home.  We grill tenderloin outside, eat truffles and are usually asleep by ten thirty.

This year we were invited to his brother's and I needed to get over there to drop off some of the dishes etc that various family members had left behind on Christmas.  I called several times during the afternoon to see if I could drop the stuff off, but no one ever answered the phone.  I didn't want to go all the way out to Steve's house (about thirteen miles from here) if no one was home.  I figured I could drop it off after church.  Zack and I were going to the 4:30 mass downtown.

At 3:30 it started to snow.  By 4:00 we were in the midst of an honest to goodness old fashioned blizzard.  Zack and I took the Lake route downtown.  It took us forty minutes in the snow but it was worth it, it was so beautiful!  It was almost a white out.  We never went more than 20mph, it was too slippery.  You couldn't see across the lakes, and the snow was wet enough to stick to all the trees.  Minneapolis is a beautiful city all the time but never moreso than in a blizzard. 

No way we were gonna make it out to Minnetonka, however.

So I still have Patty's corningware hotdish and Maureen's big salad bowl.  Oh well. 

Josie was home on New Year's.  Most years she spends next door with her friend Maddie, but the neighbors had just returned from a week in the Islands and I couldn't really ask them to throw a party their first night back just so I could get to bed early... Josie insisted that we stay up till midnight.

We watched the Count of Monte Christo with Jim Caviezel and Guy Pierce.  Good flick!

Anyway, I haven't been to bed before 12:30 for the last ten days and I'm beginning to feel a little crazy.  So tonight, I'm NOT going to watch three more episodes of Lost, which by the way, I'm beginning to think should be titled "Retarded". 

Of course, if I start now, I could watch three eps and still be in bed before nine...

 

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