Here’s some photos of us doing winter sport. We got this monopod narcissism stick that you can attach to a camera and it makes it super easy to take pictures of yourself…

I’ll need to compose my thoughts, but I’ll let you know that we traveled through 5 different states, and probably about 3000 miles. To put that in perspective, that feller in “There Will Be Blood,” when he went to see those people about digging them a well, he only traveled over half his state. So when I say we had quite the holiday adventure, you will have to agree.

Last Wednesday, I went to the Post Family studios to use their old-timey letterpress machine to print up our Christmas cards this year. You’ve probably already gotten yours, so you should know what it looks like. But if you haven’t, then we probably don’t have your address.

Here’s a video about the Post Family. Alex helped me out with this because he is a generous feller.

Bethie’s skiing ability classification: “All-arounder”

Number of official Beer Die games I won: 4

Number of casual, unofficial games that I lost: 3

Dips eaten: 2

As I told Dave, this ain’t no Blago-blog, so I’m not going to comment on the political situation, other than to say that that guy is a complete sociopath. Instead, I want to talk about another super creepy animal.

Look at this individual right here…

UPDATE: In fact, don’t. I just removed the photo. It’s too ugly-looking. Just peep it out on the wikipedia.

The naked mole rat is nearly blind, it uses it’s teeth to dig tunnels, and eats it’s own shit. What in the hell are we doing with this thing crawling around under our feet?! And we want to send a man to Mars??? Let’s take care of our problems here on Earth first… starting with eliminating this thing.

Videogames completed: 1

Fingers that went numb on my bike ride home last night: right index, left thumb

Consistently average dining experience: Feed

Prank call that I still think is hysterical despite the fact that prank calls are kind of dumb: This one

Two Saturdays ago… We went to Dave and Tereasa’s house opening party. They have been working on this house for many years and finally opened to the public. And there was a lot of public… people everywhere. There kitchen is in a hallway, and given people’s inclination at parties to stand in either the kitchen or the hallway, this arrangement worked out doubly bad. I asked Dave what else they were meaning to do with the place and he said, gesturing to a row of Virgin Mary paintings propped against a wall, “Well, we’ve got the graffiti artist coming on Thursday to put some graffiti on those paintings.” To which I replied, “Yeah, of course.”

Also, my friend Alice told a delightful story about the time she saw Barack Obama outside of the California Pizza Kitchen and he was on his way to go buy lightbulbs.

Following the short week, my parents showed up on Wednesday for a big city Thanksgiving salute to the holidays. That night, we prepared tacos, and the next day, Bethie and I prepared about 10 pounds of macaroni and cheese. That is a lot of macaroni and cheese. We prepared it for the big dinner at her aunt’s, and about 20 people only managed to get through a quarter of it. We’ve since brought the leftovers home and eat macaroni and cheese at least once a day.

Friday we went out for all sorts of shopping and browsing and looking and then went to Uptown for some fantastic pho at Tank Noodle. Oh man, it was good. If anybody ever wants to go eat Vietnamese food sometime, just let me know. I think I am in love with the stuff now.

Saturday, I worked, but while I worked, thanks to the miracle that is internet technology, I watched my high school football team win their state championship. Isn’t that something?!

Also, for everyone who hasn’t gotten me anything on my amazon wishlist, feel free to peruse this nordstrom list… or my zappos list.

is the Barack Obama of sodas.

If you’re the type of person that likes to look at the right side of this blog, you might have noticed that I’ve added for you a button that links to my Amazon wishlist. Such that you might go there and procure something for me.

NOTE: This wishlist is sorted by default to date things were added, and not by the order in which I would like to receive things. To see those results, please sort them by priority.

Also, this is what my mom thinks of my list:

“Your Amazon list paints a picture of a violent communist with money problems who likes to gamble.”

So Friday night I bought an xbox and now I am like a total L33T… The only problem so far is that the game I got is completely freaking terrifying and I’m wondering if I should even bother finishing it. I think I’ve only made it through the first level.

Yesterday, I got Grand Theft Auto IV and I’m more comfortable with that one. One of the first missions was that I had to take a girl out on a date. I think there should be a videogame just called “Dating.” That would probably be good for videogame nerds that don’t get to go on real dates. I’m not a videogame nerd. I’ve got a girl who lives with me constantly.

Speaking of which, we got our two couches out of storage and our tiny house is now a tiny home. We’re loving it, but we’ve got too much going on to take advantage of laying around.

Friday night, we went with Bethie’s friends Lynnie and Matt to a bar where you play board games. Board games not at your house!? Whaa? We played Cranium, and it was fun, but it was no xbox.

Saturday night, we went out with her parents as we had to crash a wedding to check out a band that will be playing at our wedding.

Sunday we drove way out to Bethie’s other friends house to watch the Bears game. They fried a turkey for the occasion, so i ate fried turkey skin and cookie cake and various dips. It made my head hurt.