Memnison Journal

Susan’s Mom, Connie, who lives with us, spent the holidays off at her son’s house in Sinai , South Dakota, and was going to come back today, but the icy roads are holding her off for a day.   She just called and asked how things were; ’sleeping’, I said.   Still no noise from upstairs.  I [...]

The wound.  There’s nothing but a scar there, according to Susan and Mere. Thank you, God. “Just a little bit of adhesive gunk, and not even a scab,” said Mere last night.
 
I’ll be able to wash my foot properly for the first time in a year. You can’t believe how wonderful [...]

We spent all of Saturday being very quiet around the house; everyone was very very tired from the bustle of the holidays, and Susan’s knee was swollen and painful. (She’s been fighting off this arthritis stuff a lot, and things like walking a lot or shoveling snow have just been killing her.)
 
So we declared the [...]

Day three of the Sissy visit: pictures at Susan’s photo-blog.
Susan:
Today was the American Girl Place shopping spree. The girls got up and showered. Dash was a happy dog since she got to shower with me and then with the girls. I poked my head in the bathroom to see if everything [...]

Actually, it’s pretty bone dry in the basement, and just laying out the stuff so it can rapidly dry seems to be making a LOT of headway.  Yeah, it’s not going to be as neat to store, but the entire idea was to scan the suckers and pitch them afterwards, so that the only copy [...]

Meredith attacking her presents on Christmas Eve.  Pictures in general are here at Susan’s photo blog, and a couple of goodies are after the cut:

From Susan’s photoblog (Sunday)  (picture links here):
Earlier tonight we picked Meredith Ellen up from the airport.  Sissy is here for the next 6 days.  We’ve got manicures and pedicures, American Girl Place tea parties, New Years Eve Parties to cram into the next 6 days.
Meredith Grace was barely able to contain her excitement in waiting [...]

The complete set is here at Flickr.  A sample after the cut:

This was a very odd Christmas for me; some really high points and low points. Some old traditions unexpectedly brought back, and some things mucked.  Julbord and full holiday report after the cut:

Went out and got prescription reading glasses today; my prescription is +1.75, and they work very nicely.  Worst part was slipping and falling HARD on the slick tile floor just inside the Vision Works store; as I’ve said before, with my cruddy balance, I learned long ago to fall down the best way I can [...]

John and Mere were working on the tree on Friday night, with help from Kurt, me and Susan, and  got it up in record time.  A full run of the photos is here, and two of the best are below:

…so that the dogs can bite at them.

The snow wasn’t as bad as advertised; we ended up with maybe 4-5 inches, but really sloppy wet stuff that was a pain to shovel, according to the shovellers.   Kurt and John are here, but Kurt is *really* tied from a very long week at work.    Mere had a snow day, and did Mere [...]

I decided to order a bunch of items for Christmas from Big Chain Store, with outlets nearby, and most of it was for Meredith. In total, the sum was *um* expensive. A couple of the items, which were Nintendo DS games for Mere, the online store said - oh, we don’t have that [...]

From April through September, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry is having a big Harry Potter Exhibition…tickets just started going on sale. I know a mom and two little girls who would like to go…and a whole ton of fans.