December 12, 2009

Only 2 weeks left of shopping for Christmas. Be sure to get out there and help the economy. We were both in town for the entire week which was a nice change. Of course, I'm almost always in town so not a big switch for me, but it was nice for Jo to actually see the inside of her office and her house. Work is busy with the usual year end rush on getting projects complete along with performance review time. But there is always the week off just in front of you to keep you focused and refreshed. We continue our integration and reorganization efforts within Jo's and my group although no new exciting announcements this week. It appears that it will probably be somewhere in late January before the next step of decisions come out.

We have had an interesting weather week as it was relatively warm at the beginning and then with each advancing day a trend to lower and lower temperatures. We fortunately missed having any really bad snow from the storm that covered the Midwest in the middle of the week, although just north of us got 3-7 inches (depending on how far north you went). We just had rain at our house, so no need to power up the snowblower yet this year (too bad!!!). We have a quiet weekend planned, we want to tackle getting our Christmas cards in the mail, get massages, and there is a tree out by the garden that needs some chopping up - if you can't fire up the snowblower might as well be the chain saw. That along with some cooking, baking, and the usual weekend chores should fill out the time nicely. Finally, I need to finish the last of my Christmas shopping so I'm doing my bit as stated at the beginning of this blog.

The upcoming work week starts the wind down for the end of the year as it is the last week that the majority of everyone will be at work. Then it is a slow week followed by 5 days off - yeah.

Have fun and think snow!