Thursday, December 28, 2006

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Have you missed us? Sorry, our blog site was broken for a while. Patrick got it fixed for me, so now I can talk to everyone again :)

Christmas in Tokyo is very interesting. Not being primarily Christian, they are just now starting to celebrate the holiday. They have Santa, decorate trees, play music and buy each other presents. They just don’t celebrate the religion behind it. It’s more like a celebration leading up to the New Year.

Patrick was TDY for a few weeks in between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was a really hard trip… to Hawaii… we don’t feel sorry for him. By the time he got home, it was a few days before Christmas and I hadn’t had time to get out our tree. Last year we had a pre-lit 9ft tree in our large living room. This year, the though of getting out our old 6ft tree, which has seen it’s better day, didn’t really appeal to us. Instead, the day before Christmas we found a small 3ft tree that fits much better in our whopping 980sqft home.

Christmas was good and everything else is going well. Patrick is still training for the Tokyo Marathon, which is in 53 days. I’m on the injured/reserve list, unfortunately. I still intend to run, but we’ll see if my knee will let me. I’ve developed “runner’s knee” – the cure for which is simply not running…yeah right. Patrick is still doing great and I know he’s going to do really well in the marathon :)

That’s it for now, hope everyone has a great new year!!!

5 comments:

The Quinn Report said...

Glad you're back on...I was wondering what in the heck happened to you!

Have a Happy New Year!

Andrea and Ben said...

FINALLY!!! My mom was asking about your site and apparently going through some Abby withdrawl....as were the rest of us! Happy New Year!!!

Anonymous said...

Happy New Year to you from Alaska!!!
leigh

A Goldsworthy Note said...

Yeah...you're on! I swear, I started thinking you gave me a bogus address. I love the tree, Joe and I had a 3 footer, too.
Good Luck with the knee...believe me, I know how horrible it is to have someone tell you not to run.
Tell Patrick hello from me.

Lysandra said...

You are back! You were gone forever!