Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! By now, it’s 2009 throughout the world, and I sincerely hope it will be a good year. There are certainly a lot of big things to look forward to – including the birth of my future nephew, and my trip to Austria with the Glee Club. No doubt the year will bring change for many, not least of which will be end of the George W. Bush era. What will Obama bring to 2009? What will Bush leave behind? Should be exciting to find out. I know I’m looking forward to it.

Logan and I had a good Christmas back with our family. Our original plans got derailed from some heavy snow, but the travel days actually worked out better for our sanity this way. Logan was expecting almost everything to be closed on Christmas Day, but all the major travel centers were up and running as usual, and semi traffic was lighter, so it was a great day to drive, especially with the only day of beautiful weather in a week. When we left Ann Arbor, we had about a foot of snow. When we came back less than a week later, all that remained were remnants from huge snow shoveling piles. Rain came through and washed most of it away. Odd weather this year, but at least I can keep my feet warm here at my desk. Over Christmas we also got to meet our new nephew on Logan’s. Born on the 20th, he’s a beautiful baby. Quiet, too, though that’s partially due to some bilirubin-induced lethargy. He’s got one of the bili-blankets, and they’re watching him closely, so I’m sure he’ll be back to normal levels in no time.

Our New Year’s celebration was a relatively quiet one – Logan and I stayed in and made brinner (that’s breakfast for dinner, if you didn’t know.) I’m a big fan of breakfast. We had pancakes, turkey sausage, orange juice, and mint hot chocolate with mint chocolate Bailey’s! Yum! We saw the ball drop on hulu and thus arrived 2009. I hope you all are enjoying the start of the new year. I’ll still be here, with my sporadic updates. Lots of posts that are long overdue for my 101 in 1001 days list, but I know better than to make promises about when you’ll see them.