Mark where the old year passes by

For your listening pleasure - All Souls Night, Loreena McKennitt

Figures of cornstalks bend in the shadows
Held up tall as the flames leap high
The green knight holds the holly bush
To mark where the old year passes by.

I know, I know, wrong new year, but I've had the song in my head.  Squeak got a CD alarm clock for Christmas, and since she doesn't have any of her own CDs yet, she's been listening to mine.  I introduced her to Ms. McKennitt, and it's about all she listens to right now.  She makes occasional breaks for Brian Setzer, and a mix CD that we used to listen to in the car all the time.

The missing packages from Christmas finally arrived today.  The presents from my mom, and The Boy's mom, were finally opened and handed out.  This made for two very happy children, a reasonably happy Boy, and an extremely happy me.  Feeling so cut off from home, I needed the package from my mom, full of pictures and her little notes.  I miss her a lot.  I knew I would, but I also thought I'd be more relieved not to have her around so much.  Funny how that turned out.

Our tree is pretty dern dead.  We'll be taking it down tomorrow and cutting it up for firewood.  Cause we have a fireplace now.  And it has been neglected.

I'm not sure of my expectations for 2009.  My feelings for 2008 can be summed up as "it was hard, but several awesome things happened".  The biggest one of course being that The Boy and I are finally living together.  Hee hee - I have a tungsten carbide ring that says he's mine.  When he gave me the ring, he said "I offer you the strongest metal known, in the strongest shape in nature, to symbolize the strength of my love".  Geektastic, and yet poetic - I know I smiled like an idiot.  He is my dork, and I loves him.

I do plan on doing something about my weight, though.  No, I don't really know what just yet.  My original brilliant plan for getting in shape once I moved out here was kind of hampered by the fact that public transit from Snohomish County down into King County kind of blows.  Once you're in King County, it's brilliant, the problem is getting there.  Ah well.  I will give serious thought to my brilliant plan, and see how it can be revised.  I'm already walking more than I was before I moved, but it's not enough to encourage weight loss.