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So we went out to do some shoveling (Andrew) and take some pictures (Shiloh).  I shut the door behind us to keep the cold out. Sadly, it never even crossed my mind to turn the switch on the door to “unlock” . . . Andrew ended up breaking the window pane in the downstairs door to get in. Now we have a boarded-up basement door. Good thing we hadn’t replaced it yet. I guess it’s time to give the neighbors a spare.

During our adventure, we hiked up to 5526 Jacobs to see if we had smartly given them a key. We didn’t find our key but we did get to trek through snow up to our mid-thighs. It’s a workout, just in case you were wondering.  We are living in a winter wonderland for sure!!

This has been the second serious snowstorm of the season.  Andrew and I narrowly missed the first one, so Mother Nature is showing us who’s boss!

Andrew decided to go out and shovel the walks last night . . .  A sisyphean task.  No one would ever know the paths were cleared at 10pm.  The snow is supposed to continue through the afternoon, ending sometime after dark.  I have seen a total of four cars (other than plows) out on the road today.  I also saw one runner with a ski mask and ski goggles.  That’s serious dedication!

I’ve been slacking off for the last couple weeks. I know I owe pictures of our new house and hope to post a couple of rooms in the next few days. We are mostly still living out of boxes in a disaster zone (or as Jonny put it, we are “digging out of a hurricane”).

In the meanwhile, I just couldn’t let all the heroics of the last week pass me by without taking the time to realize what amazing generosity abounds. Wanted to share this story that had me in tears early this morning. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705360693/Haiti-quake-sends-father-on-blessing-filled-odyssey-for-daughter.html?pg=4

As my brother Tay has on his gmail status “if were not going to help in a time like this, we will probably never help . . . http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake“

Although it could have been the candles on the cake, this year for my birthday Andrew hung the chandelier in the dining room. I LOVE it.
The house is coming together. We have officially spent four nights in our home and are still unpacking. Moving takes more time than I ever imagined, but is the best 2010 New Year present. (Side note: Andrew proposed four years ago today!!! Crazy. Seems like yesterday.)
I also realized my bday this year is pretty cool binary code … 011010. Awesome!

Almost back to new.

Andrew cut his head open on the kitchen cabinets.

Andrew and I left for the airport at 5.30am Friday.  By the time we landed in Utah, the snow had started.  24 hours later this is the progress outside.  Flights were cancelled from IAD and DCA nearly all day yesterday.  Good thing we left when we did or we probably wouldn’t have made it to Utah this year.

We heard the snow finally stopped today (Sunday) around 10am.   I wonder what the final accumulation was outside.

*An update to my earlier post titled “Disappearing Act”

Yesterday morning, on my way to work, I received a call from an unknown number and decided to go ahead and pick up the call. It was Mo (the number 2 guy at the original floor place we hired to do our work, back in Oct). He informed me that he had just returned from a 3-week vacation in Morocco and had spent 3 hours that morning listening to VMs on the work phone. He apologized for the delay in getting back to us over the holiday (Thanksgiving) and asked me if I had heard the news. I said “What news” . . . “Hassan died,” he responded.

I couldn’t believe it and am still processing the news (as you can tell). Our floor guy never called us back because he was in a car accident on Nov 29 in Orlando and passed away. I think this ending is much sadder than being out several thousand dollars.

Hassan was the goalie on the Moroccan Olympic soccer team in his youth and is quite famous in Northern Africa and in the DC area. His wife also broke her legs in the car accident. So terribly tragic!!

On my flight to Atlanta I discovered the ring (white gold band) which Andrew gave me when he proposed nearly 4 years ago was no longer on my pinky finger. I’m still struggling to try and figure out what happened.

Cold weather and a heavy bag possibly contributed to the ring slippage. Such a bummer! I searched for the ring the entire flight with no luck.

Yes, we were trying to move in to our new house at the end of November. Unfortunately, the company who we hired to refinish our floors completely vaporized over Thanksgiving. We have had to hire another company, and yes, we have to pay once more. I’m so so soooo upset about it. Hate it! We paid all but 1k to the old floor people (and they had already tried to refinish 2 other times but we had some quality issues they still needed to fix) so for them to just leave us high and dry is pretty lame. Not a great magic trick.

Now we are hoping to move in at the end of December since we are headed to UT Dec 18 and it takes six days to finish the floors. When, oh when, will this saga end?!?!?

I’m not quite sure how, but the flu keeps nailing me this year. This is the third time I have had it. . .I seem to get each stran as it morphs and morphs. So frustrating!

We had our first snow of the Season yesterday. Things are finally starting to get cold around here. I had to bring in my orchid from outside so it wouldn’t die. I usually bring in other plants (fuschias, begonias, geraniums, etc) so I don’t have to buy so many plants in the Spring. This year we have our hands full just trying to finish our house and move in so I opted not to save our lovely annuals. Sad!!

I has to run up to NYC for a quick meeting. I convinced Andrew to drive up with me, which he did and worked from the Library while I was in the office. Oh, and we stayed right smack in the middle of downtown. And I mean literally. (This pic was taken outside the hotel entrance in Times Square.) On the downside, we learned what real traffic is when we tried to get out of the city. Hint: it makes DC look like a remote city in Montana.

Although we were in transit all day, we could not be stopped from engaging in the BF frenzy. I think we spent 80 percent of our flight online.

Chicago looks so small from 30k feet.

After 4 glorious days in UT, we are headed home to a crazy 3 weeks in VA. We will be headed back to UT for Christmas.

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