Current mood:	satisfied
Current music:	fire crackling.

SHIVER ME TIMBERS.
i can't sleep.

i played text twist for awhile, but i was really sucking. and really not in the mood. then, i thought i should do more hunting around online for christmas gifts, but i've done a lot of that the past couple of days. plus, tomorrow (or later today if it counts that it's 2:42 am) maryanna and i are going to go christmas shopping so i'd like to wait and do that before i start hunting around online again.

that leaves me with not much to do but post. and i really should post because today was a pretty great day.

i woke up this morning with a hell of a migraine on the left side of my head. mark gave me some migraine medicine and i fell back asleep and woke up to it gone. love that stuff. i had two bowls of fruity pebbles when i woke up...the second bowl contained less of what was in the first bowl if that counts for being any less gross. at around five we went to holiday in the park in bellaire. our church volunteered to man the moon walks for the event. 'twas a really great time. before leaving the house to go, i didn't think i would need a scarf and gloves but decided i'd wear them anyway just because i will really use any excuse to wear winter wear. and you really don't get enough oppurtunies to wear it in houston. and it turns out, i needed both!!! excellent. i am pretty sure it dipped down into the thirties and it was totally fabulous. i enjoyed every bit of it. i wish mark could say the same thing but he, unfortunately, didn't bring gloves and his hands were close to freezing off his arms. (interesting image.) what was even better than the cold was getting to talk with so many different people. particularly the parents/gaurdians that would bring their kids to the moon walks. and getting to see the kids all decked out in the cutest winter gear. 'twas perfect weather for the holidays. i really enjoyed it.

after holiday in the park, we had too much pizza with the sokols at firehouse pizza. we had the restuarant to ourselves and the pizza was pretty great [for new york pizza-- i'm usually not a huge fan of new york pizza]. we discussed kaleo stuff and talked about our plans for the rest of the week. i am going christmas shopping/browsing with maryanna tomorrow and saturday, we are going to old town spring with them. and then, sunday, we are going to pick out Christmas trees with them. yes. we cannot seem to get enough of each other. they're pretty great.

tomorrow, mark has a lot of work to do, but hopefully the rest of the weekend will be relaxing as i know mark could really use it. he has had quite a few projects he's either wrapping up, in the middle of, started, thinking about, or still needs to tend to. i know it hasn't been a picnic for him even though he has been a real trooper and just really great about it all despite me feeling like he's being treated unfairly. and even despite that, we are truly blessed to have the work...and we know that God will always come through and make a way for us. mark has had a heart of gold in all of this...unwavering patience and confidence. i learn so much from him every single day.

on the way home, mark decided he wanted to watch pirates of the caribbean so we rented it. when we got home we decided the weather was too perfect to not have a fire burning so i had mark light a fire. i made us some really chocolatey hot chocolate with, ofcourse, lots of marshmallows because you really can't have such a perfectly cold evening and a fire burning and no hot chocolate! and then we decided to just sleep in the sitting room, in front of the fire, since we've been too busy to deflate the air mattress angeline used when she was in town. mark fell asleep an hour into pirates and i turned it off because i didn't want to finish it without him. plus, i was half falling asleep anyway. i remembered i had to transfer some clothes from the washer into the dryer if we were going to have jeans to wear the next day and that pretty much woke me up. so, now i'm here. and now i'm thinking playing around online is doing exactly what i thought it would do.

i think i'm tired again. and that i'm going to go back down stairs and enjoy the last bit of the fire with my malluk (mah-look).

ps- i do have lots of pictures to post, but i'm too lazy to pull them off of mark's computer, plus, i know i'll have more by the end of the week. so stay tuned.