Now that’s original, isn’t it?

Well, December brought an end to a whirlwind of projects at work. All were successfully finished up, and then came some welcome time off. Convalescence. Ahhh, wonderful.

We had a really nice Christmas enjoying family, friends and church. The rest brought recovery from illness; everyone but Kenny and I had come down with something in the days leading up to Christmas. We made many modest gains on projects around the house; cleaning, improving, and organizing.

We saw a few movies: *The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe* with the older kids, and today a BBC version of *The Silver Chair* (production quality was a bit of a let down for the kids after the aforementioned… we’re so spoiled). Helen and I saw *A Lady in the Water,* which was pretty good, but the idea that the penultimate authority rested in beings of pure evil took away something for us. We all saw *Elf*, which was pretty good, enjoyable, formulaic tripe. The snowball fight scene was fun. We also rented but have not yet watched *The Gospel of John* which was done a couple of years ago, starring the guy who plays Desmond on *Lost*.

Seems like a lot when I type it out, but it was spread out over a few days. We actually didn’t watch much TV. Well, we did watch *The Incredibles* about 47 times, too.

I’m almost done with Doris Kearns Goodwin’s *A Team of Rivals* (the book about Lincoln I’ve mentioned before). It’s fantastic. It’s wrecking my life because I can’t put it down. Lincoln was a stunning man.

Looking forward… well, I’ll resume my Greek classes; I teach the first month of our church’s adult Bible study, a 52-week class on fundamental theology; some organization; some financial improvements; I don’t know what else…

And I did, on Christmas Eve night, [light a “Strike-Anywhere” match with just my thumbnail.](http://www.kpmartin.com/2006/12/18/i-wont-rest/)

Anything special happening in 2007 for you? Any resolutions?