Letting me go home

Holiday plans--there are no plans! Actually, we do have plans, Mr. Toe. First we're driving to C*'s parents. It's going to take 2 days to get there, and the forecasts are calling for snow next week, so we're planning on leaving Sunday. We'll stay there through the 29th, I think, then come down to Virginia to see my sister and brother, and have our usual family get together New Years eve. Should be fun. C* and I do want to come into town to see museums, perhaps drop by A* office (well, I'll do that alone). Maybe we can get together for dinner on that day? That would rock.

Awkward silences are so common for me now they hardly seem awkward. I bet your Dad had a good time with you all.

Good luck on the exams. So, El will be down there end of December? Maybe we can get together while she's there? We have to keep in touch about this.

I'll do my best to update during the holidays, but I can't promise. Maybe once every three days? Once every 2? Will you be at G* the whole time.

I'm randomly answering your questions: No one cross-country skis here in De_K--no, drinking is the winter sport. I'm only an amateur, but it's fun even for us non-pros. It's a whole other world up in Minnesota, I'm afraid. They're all healthy and have a stoic yet cheerful attitude toward life. Here on the lower prairie it's a little more alcoholic and chatty/fatty.

Actually, I have no idea. I'm no mid-western expert by any means. I did see someone snow-mobiling beside the highway last night, driving across the fields. It was kind of cool looking. Definitely a little dangerous at night, I would think, what with irrigation ditches and frozen stubs of cornstalks.

Anyway. I need to take a break and walk through the snow to the P.O. and the hardware store. The sun seems to set at around 4PM on cloudy winter days like today. Where's my booze and my snow mobile?!