Gmail is pissing me off. It keeps crashing my Firefox. After a little searching, I think it is related to their "new" interface they recently rolled out. Apparently they didn't check it as well as they should. I will just have to be careful. It seems to just crash the whole browser when I navigate away from a gmail page. I haven't tested all cases, but I read if you have more than one tab open, it won't happen. We will see if that works.

We had a couple of snow storms roll through this weekend. The first one hit on Friday. We got quite a dump of snow and the roads were pretty bad. Phil told us that we were having a "surprise" birthday dinner at the Lodge in Jay for Jaime's mom on Friday night. It took us almost an hour to drive up there because of the roads. Tony was there as well as Phil's son Kevin and his wife Chris. I got some boneless buffalo wings for an appetizer, which were very good. They also make homemade chips there with a pesto dipping sauce which I enjoyed. However, my main meal was not very good. I got a sausage and caramelized onion pizza. I get that sometimes when I go to Lago's and I usually enjoy that. However, the lodge version was not that great. I ended up bringing most of it home in a doggie bag.

On Saturday, Jaime went down to Wal-Mart with Julie so Julie could finish up her Christmas shopping. This worked out well for me because I was able to wrap all my Christmas presents and go buy my stocking stuffers for Jaime. The stores were absolutely mobbed on Saturday. I was going to go to Pick and Shovel to use my Christmas gift certificate I got from work, but after dealing with the lack of parking and all the people that were at Rite-Aid, I didn't feel like wasting any more time. I feel like I didn't get Jaime that much this year, but I think that is because most of the stuff I got was fairly expensive, so it is more quality than quantity. I still tried to wrap everything seperately so she would have the maximum amount of presents to open. She enjoys that!

I messed around on www.simpsonizeme.com on Saturday. It is a marketing thing from the Simpson movie and Burger King. You upload your photo and it turns you into a Simpson. Here's me:

I kept my fatness. I think it is a pretty good likeness! We also messed around with a funny video where you can make yourself into dancing elves. Thanks to Laura for pointing out the site. Here's our video: http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1425093786

Sunday gave us some more snow. I don't know how I survived without the snowblower. That has to be the greatest invention known to northern climate man. I am very satisfied with it so far. The only bad thing is that there is a frost heave or something underneath my shed where I store the snowblower. That causes the doors on the shed not to close right. I have to force them closed, and that is wrecking the doors. I will probably need to fix them in the spring.

I have been wasting a lot of my free time playing the old Xbox game, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I had gotten it a couple of months ago used. I got it so I would have something to do when I was recovering from my wisdom teeth removal. But I never got around to playing it. I know see why it was so popular when it came out. It is pretty addictive.

We are having a Christmas "Feeding Frenzy" for the employees at work tomorrow. We are supposed to go in and serve drinks to the employees while they are going through the line. That means I will need to go in at 7PM and 2AM to hit the other two shifts. So that should make for a fun day!

It is below zero outside this morning, so that is the coldest it has been yet this year. Both cars started fine. Winter is here! I can't believe Christmas is only a week away. I know when you are a kid you always know the number of days until Christmas and it seems like it takes forever to come. But now that I am all grown up, it just kind of sneaks up on you.