Today was a crazy day weather-wise. One minute it was sunny, the next it was sunny and snowing, and the next it was dark, dreary and snowing a LOT. Luckily, none of it has really stuck. Unluckily, it's still freakin' cold outside and there is more winter to come. I cannot express quite strongly enough how much I HATE winter. I hate the cold, I hate the wind - the piercing, biting, bitter wind -, I hate the snow, I hate the dirty snow, I hate how nasty cars look from driving in the slushy, dirty snow, I hate that the trees don't have any leaves and look all pathetic and cold, I hate that it's pitch black outside at 4:30. I believe I suffer from seasonal affective disorder/winter depression. I firmly believe that I should move somewhere tropical each winter to combat this issue :) Seriously......

I'm pretty sure that I finally - completely - broke my toe at taekwondo last night. It hasn't been right since I front kicked that board for pre-testing 2-ish cycles ago. I suppose there's no point in going and having it x-rayed as they'll just tape it up, right????? It's a lovely light purplish/green color and all swollen. I'm limping and hopping around - but I'll probably go to class on Thursday anyway...... :)

The kids' Christmas present has arrived a month and a half early. Meet "Big Bertha".

Not only does she have the awesome ice/water hickey on the front, but she also required some home renovation to be done before she'd fit in the kitchen. Out of the 50 refrigerators at Lowe's, only one - and it was an UGLY one at that - refrigerator would have fit under the cupboards that were hanging on the wall. Big Sexy chopped the cupboards off the wall. Of course, then he had to go to Sears to buy a circular hand saw to cut the cupboards down to the right size. After the cupboards were resized, the cupboard doors needed to be resized. This required a fourth trip to Lowe's to by the proper router bit so that the cupboard doors could be reshaped properly. After a weekend of tireless effort on BS's part, the cupboards are now done and rehung! He's so awesome!

Of course, now we have to paint them, and the kitchen walls, and while we're at it, we may as well redo the ridiculously ugly floor, and put a backsplash on the wall by the stove, and buy an above-the-stove microwave....... It never ends......

And finally, to put us all in the mood for Christmas..............