Adam and I have both had this entire past week off and it has been awesome. Beyond great, I tell ya! My vacation was by choice, his was mandatory unfortunately. His company is struggling and one of their moves to regain financial stability was to close-up shop per se for this week without pay. So, I took the week off too and it has been glorious. We have done nothing but spend time together and work on the house finishing all sorts of little projects (fun stuff, no more big overwhelming junk!!).

I am hopeful for 2010. We spent New Year’s Eve with some great friends. Good food, great conversation, a strange game of Battle of the Sexes (it’s a board game for those of you who haven’t heard of it) and a brutal game of Pictionary where the guys actually won (yeah, I know…what’s up with that?) brought in the new year peacefully. We also played a little Wii, of which neither of us have EVER played. While I had many near death experiences while driving Mario Kart our friends small child said…. “I can’t believe you are a doctor”, still not sure how to interpret that????

Last night we also learned there was a casualty in the “pets” of the family (hee hee). “That” snake that has been giving me the willies in previous blogs. Read here and here if you need to catch up on the story. At any rate, Slyther very sadly choked on his supper of a mouse and died, literally. I was told they tried compressions~not sure if they were telling the truth. I did ask if he turned blue but they said he just stayed white. While I was excited for a brief moment at the news, we got a text message that they got another albino corn snake to replace Slyther already. Apparently he was under warranty or something.

Finally, I am hopefully that 2010 will be a year that surrounds me and my friends and loved ones with less death. This time already last year our phone rang and Adam’s Mawmaw had somewhat unexpectedly died. Our poor small community lost so many people this last year~both young and old. My Nana is gone. I hope that maybe my faith will strengthen again…I have somewhat lost it these past nine months…I think that death will do that to a person.