The new house...

is great! I love it. We moved in last weekend and though things have been hectic ever since and there are still unpacked boxes everywhere, it's really exciting to have space to cook and pray and be.
This house is literally 10 feet from our little house. It's in the same yard and has the same landlord, only bigger. So, yay! and feel free to come and visit anytime now, we've got guestrooms. (Yes thats right I said rooms). Only one small problem there... The guest sofa bed currently sits upright at the bottom of the basement stairs waiting to either miraculously fit into the room or get chopped up into tiny pieces and thrown out. Also, the free washer and dryer that we got and were very excited about look great. The dryer doesn't heat up though. So now what? Wet clothes.
Yes, it's got its issues. But don't we all?

a snowballs chance in hell...

Did I forget to mention that it has been snowing a little here in Denver? Uh...I'm pretty much over it. it's pretty for about a day and then the fact that there is 6 inches of snow (er..ice) on the roads and drifts of 2 feet everywhere else, gets a little tedious. I'm just not made for this stuff. Snow keeps getting in my Crocks and nomatter how cold it is, I just can't wear that many layers. Ugh.

Ok...*stepping off soapbox*

Otherwise the holidays have been ok. Only ok because we left Denver in a hurry to miss the first storm (which we still caught a good piece of) only to get back home to days and days of rain. Family stressed over what nights we slept where, toys lined my mothers floors for days and all in all without my grandfather there, it just didn't feel like Christmas. My cute, snotty nosed nephews got both hubby and I sick jusst in time for us to leave in a hurry again to miss the second storm. A day early was smart but the car was smarter than us. Just far enough from home to turn around in the middle of the night and the middle of nowhere Texas we got a blowout and spent $100 to sleep for 4 hours in a hotel while we waited for the Super WalMart to open. The next night we did in fact get caught in the storm and made it home about an hour before the interstate closed for the next 3 days. Since then Hubby has been fighting what we think was the flu and we've watched so many movies that I've taken to being a critic.

Man it'll be good to go back to work :)

Mozart and the Whale: a review

Have you ever felt like you teeter on the line of social inadequacy? Sometimes I feel like I live on that line. Like everybody else belongs to some club that I haven't yet found my way to and might not want to even if I had directions. I have trouble looking people directly in the eye when I speak to them if I don't know them well. I sometimes lack the simple ability to make small talk and more times than not I'm a little less frilly in my speach than is generally accepted.
Thats pretty much what this movie is about and I have to say I did enjoy it. Granted these people have a higher degree of social akwardness and are clinically diagnosed as such, my simple blunt terms would just say that they are just like most people without the crap.
Two people with Aspergers syndrome (a mild form of Autism) find a home in each other that they cannot find with the vast majority of people they've encountered in life. Donald has an fascination and talent for numbers and Isabelle an artistic streak and the inability to hold back her thoughts. Both belong to a support group for Autistic adults which Donald began. The group sees Donald as a "god" both socially in comparison to them and compassionately as their leader. Never-the-less, they are family and in their own anti social, emotionally distant ways are always there for each other. There is alot of humanity in this movie and short of the unfortunate insinuation of pre-marital sex, it's innocent and interesting.
Hubby and I found alot of similarities in the couple's issues to our own. He was messy, she was a little neurotic. She wanted a home and nice things and he worried about how they were going to pay for it all.

... like most people without the crap. They didn't mess around with small talk and insignificant formalities. They weren't swayed by particularities in personality or honesty and in the end they dealt with the issues that we all do.