Today it snowed again, much to my chagrin. I got a couple more donations for the Relay for Life, so I was happy about that.

My intern at work only has a few days left. He has been extremely helpful to me since he has been there. I will miss having my own personal assistant ;)

I hit the gym pretty hard this afternoon and that felt pretty good. I couldn't sleep at all last night due to the fact that I slept in so long yesterday. I am figuring on paying the piper tomorrow.

I spent the evening putting a few more pictures on Flickr. It is a time consuming process.

We watched "Dan in Real Life" tonight since nothing was on TV. I thought it would be a funny movie because it had Steve Carrell, but unfortunately it was about the most estrogeny chick flick I have seen in forever. It made "Love Actually" and "Terms of Endearment" look like guy movies. So I didn't like it too much, but Jaime enjoyed it.

Today I woke up at 11:00 AM, again very unusual for me to sleep in that late. Jaime wasn't too amused. But I guess my body needed it. I do tend to stay up rather late most nights getting things done that I need to do and giving Jaime several snore-free hours of sleep.

She went to visit our friend Lisa and her kids. I took the opportunity to finally fix the bird feeder that the squirrels destroyed. They had broken off the part that attaches it to the pole (broke a metal weld!), so it was just hanging there useless. I attached a block of wood to the inside and drilled a hole in it the size of the pole. I put it back on the pole, but it didn't seem like it was going to cut it. The block wasn't as deep as it needed to be (just an end of a 2x4) so I needed to improvise. It was a fairly new bird feeder and not very cheap, so I wanted to salvage it if possible (BTW: it was advertised as squirrel-proof). So I busted out the trusty duct tape and used that to further secure it to the pole. We'll have to see how long that holds up. I used a lot of tape.

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

We got our first big snow last night.  We must have gotten about 8-10" or so I would guess.  I busted out the snowblower first thing this morning.  Jaime got to sleep in because she got the phone call this morning that school was canceled.  I went out to the shed, added some gas, and it started on the first pull.  I was pretty happy with it.  Why hadn't I ever gotten one of these before?  It was about a hundred times easier to clear the driveway that it is to do it by hand.  Thanks Grandpa!