post-holiday wrap-up

nycgadgetgirl and T (sister and niece) didn't make it to Indy for the holidays this year (unfortunately, real life intervened and made the trip impossible), but my parents were in town from Saturday through Wednesday and we had a lovely time. Probably the most concentrated time that I've spent with them in several years, and it was good to get the chance to really catch up. We also rode around and looked at houses, which brings an interesting bit of continuity to my house search, since Daddy looked at the house in Alexandria with me when they were here for the holidays two years ago. Hopefully this won't still be going on in another two years! (More on the house search in a later post...)

We had barbecue and all the trimmings for Christmas dinner, along with a peanut-butter-cup cheesecake which was quite yummy. I didn't have to cook any of it... which was probably a good thing since all my at-home time was spent taking care of the sick dog.

I had to work this week, since half the managers are out, and our first day back (yesterday) started with the excitement of a power outage. Apparently there was a big wreck that took out power to about 200 businesses. Naturally, just as we sent the staff out for an hour-long lunch, with orders to report back at 12:30 to see if we had power again, the lights came back on. :-) We were already running right down to the wire to get this week's books out to the printer, and losing a couple of hours didn't help. We survived, though... all the important systems were on backup power, so there were no surprises in the data center.

We have Monday and Tuesday off, so I'm really looking forward to the four-day weekend... I'm going to spend a day of it doing nothing but laundry and house-cleaning, then spend the rest of it enjoying my clean house and getting some actual rest!