A New Year

So 2013 arrived with no apocalypse, so life goes on. We spent out New Year's Eve just watching more movies and generally being quiet about the whole affair. We had some noisemakers and poppers for the princesses, and of course, we watched the ball drop at midnight, but that was the extent of it. I did realize last night that I was already falling down on my blog, so I'll be adding some retroactive entries tomorrow to cover the weekend. The Cloud Player is up to 15,000 tracks as I finished the Queen's iPod and moved on to my own and I'm trudging through the CDs I never really bothered to rip. I've also been cleaning up the upload mess which is as time consuming as everything else I touch.

Beyond that, it's back to work with me tomorrow as life goes on. Not looking forward to it on one hand as I have to serve others, but work is also a place where I have to sit in front of a computer for many hours a day and I can work on lots of other stuff there as I wait for "the man" to give me more work. Here's to another year.

A Lazy Day

Nothing much happened today. I went to church for the worship team where I played bass and got me some righteous blisters. The queen picked the princesses up from her parents' house, and from there, we all spent the day doing a whole lot of nothing. I mostly worked on uploading our music to the Amazon cloud player so all our kindled have a more than complete library of pretty much every piece of music we have ever owned. It is awesome. We took that faulty faulty Abe Lincoln movie back and swapped it for Dark Knight Rises. It was pretty pretty good.

We're distinctively back into our movie watching again, I think. Of course, I have a list.

Date Night

I do not wish to be remiss in keeping this as a sort of journal of things that happen, so on Saturday night, the queen and I had a date night. We do not take many of these because we are rather selfish of our time with the princesses but my in-laws offered to keep them overnight so we decided to accept their offer and enjoy the evening. We started with a long talk about life and things of that nature which is something we do not often get to do with the princesses around. We moved on from there to dinner at Olive Garden, which holds some significance for us as we had some of our earliest dates there. We moved on to some therapeutic shopping time for the queen, which is considerably different without the children as she can roam and explore more freely without the extra "help." This and a couple of frappuccinos from the Starbucks conveniently located inside Target moved the evening along nicely.

From there, we attempted to go bowling, but they were having their glow bowl where you pay for the three hours or not at all. As we only wanted a game or two, we left, grabbed a movie and went home. I let the queen pick and she chose Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which, despite the problems with the bluray, was a pretty decent movie. Overall, it was a very good evening, and I do look forward to many more years and many more dates with her.