2012

Hello 2012!   We had a very low-key New Year's Eve, we didn't even stay up until midnight.   We watched the New York ball drop and called that good enough.  I think our young nephew stayed up later than we did!

We did enjoy the fireworks in the neighborhood, people must've dropped some major $$ on them!  They were  impressive to watch and I didn't know which way to look there were so many going off.   Smokey was NOT a fan, poor thing fireworks scare the wits out of dogs (and little kids). He got a lot of laptime.   If you don't know what is making all the noises, it sure does sound like a war zone!

Speaking of war zone, I recorded all but one of the Band of Brothers episodes that were on right after Christmas and we're working our way through them, great show and amazing to see what so many young men went through in WWII...makes me wish my grandfathers were still around so I could ask them about their experiences.  My mom's dad never wanted to talk about it, and my dad's dad died before I was old enough to ask.

Doing pretty well on resolutions so far, I know only 4 days in...but keeping with them each day is the way to make them stick!

I think Smokey must've made a new year's resolution to make bath time easier on us, he got a bath last night in the tub and he was so good and still.  I end up in the tub with him so I was still soaked, but a hot shower afterwards takes care of that.   Maybe he finally realized bath = treat!

Traffic is back to normal and everyone is back to work and school.  On Monday traffic was so light I started wondering if I actually did have work that day, I did...but hardly anyone else did