I am waiting for the time when I leave the house to go pick up Jennifer from the airport.  Her flight has been delayed a little over 2 and 1/2 hours.  Conditions at DFW International are said to be blamed.  While waiting, Justin and I watched several episodes of Deadwood Season 1.  We also opened a couple gifts.  Fun.  My sisters and I used to have the tradition of opening our gifts for each other on Christmas Eve.  I followed through on my end, opening the one that I had in hand – Robin’s gift.  It was a Macbook cover.  Very nice.  Turns out Justin got me the same one.  (Important tip: If you buy something for someone using their Amazon.com Wishlist, make sure you click “BOUGHT.”  This will prevent duplicates!)  But no worry.  As it happens, Justin also has a Macbook so he was able to use the redundant one.  I opened another gift from Justin- a gift card to V.S.!  Yay!  I foresee nice, new undies in my future.

It snowed in Texas today.  First White Christmas in many, many, many years.  Quite fun and neat in general.  I hope the roads are safe to drive on.  It is extremely cold out (at least in Texas terms) yet the roads are just warm enough to make everything melt.  I can only hope they aren’t refreezing.  Outside, I hear cars pass now and again.  It’s strange to hear the crunch of snow and ice underneath the vehicles.

It’s been a good year.  It hasn’t always been easy.  Indeed, I had several breakdowns throughout… but the high points were just as high, if not higher, on the opposite end of the spectrum.

Matilda is fabulous.  Here are some recent pictures:

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