Happy new year!
January 2nd, 2007Now 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.
Anything special happening in 2007 for you? Any resolutions?