After a nice quiet Christmas work-wise, I’m utterly depressed to be back at work this week. While I was technically on duty over the break, besides keeping an eye on things to make sure nothing blew up, I took it pretty easy. By God is it a shock to the system being back to normal. Back to work blues have never quite hit me this bad before – it’s probably a combination of a number of factors, all I know for sure is that it’s no fun.
The Christmas season was enjoyable, though a little unusual since we stayed in Seattle for the first time. A week before Christmas, on the way back from a trip to Oregon with friends, we drove to Richmond, WA, to pick up our new dog, Shay. We had been thinking of getting a dog for a while and when we found Shay on petfinder.com, she sounded perfect. And that she is. She’s about 5 years old, half lab\half whippet, very well behaved and very friendly. She’s quite small (it’s hard to judge in the photos), at about 26 lbs (11kg). So far, she’s an angel. I’m convinced I deserve some kind of paternal leave since you get that if you adopt a child, why not a dog? Sadly, it’s not flying.Over Christmas, we had a houseful of both people and dogs. Cheeks (our friend’s whippet) came to visit for a few days as did a couple of human friends whose apartment got flooded out. Then Christmas Day about 10 more came for dinner and a few more for drinks later on. Lots of ‘Guitar Hero’ and ‘Seen it’ were played, a drink or two was taken and there were even a few songs were attempted. The day went off without too many hick-ups, even though Greg broke the leg off the dining room table late Christmas Eve …. after all the shops were closed so all chances of replacing it were slim to none (it was glued back together and somehow held).So Christmas in Seattle was certainly a little different but nice all the same. Shay has so far been a joy to have around, let’s hope I’m still saying that this time next year.Happy New Year to everyone, I hope 2008 brings good health, happiness and fun.