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Christmas all over again...

Well... Since we moved a couple of days after Christmas, we decided not to buy any more things that we would have to pack. So...no presents. We planned to buy presents for the kids after the move. Well...we finally got out and headed to Toys 'R Us. With a little (OK, a lot) of help from the Grandparents, we got the kids some toys that they really liked.

Iron Chef Aly
Aly loves playing with plastic food and dishes. So, we got Aly a new kitchen set, some dishes, and food. She loves it. Mitch likes the barbeque on the back...

Mitch the Builder
Mitch has a great imagination. He can turn anything into a screwdriver or drill...whatever. He especially loves to pretend he's working on things when dad has the tools out and is doing some work. So...we got him some tools and a bench (I'm using the washer for my bench...).
The new toys do have one downfall...they're freaking loud. When the batteries run out on a couple of the toys, I'm not sure that we're going to replace them.

Mom the Cleaner
Speaking of loud...Lisa got a present too. OK, not really a present but something for the house. It's a new Dyson vacuum. I don't know anything about vacuums (or other cleaning appliances for that matter...) but this one's supposed to be the best. I'll admit that it did a pretty good job on our already vacuumed floor....
Dad got to be on call....

Dad the Manager
It's my turn in the manager's on-call rotation. I don't mind on-call as much as I used to because I'm pretty much home anyway. The only drag is getting woken up or getting a call when you're out and about. For that reason, I make sure that I don't stray too far from home. Luckily, Renton and the surrounding areahas pretty much everything - a decent mall, Costco, Home Depot, Toys 'R Us, Fred Meyers, etc. All within 5-miles or so.
I got called at 4:30-ish this morning. One of the call centers was down. No inidication whether it was power, circuit, equipment failure, or what. My job is to make sure that we're doing everything we can to restore the site. Not much to do on this one so I just stayed on top of the status until it came back up. Couldn't get back to sleep though...so now I'm exhausted - too tired to even play a game...

posted by Sam @ 9:35 PM