Friday, December 29, 2017

End-of-the-Month Highlights Day

New photos have been added to the Life, 2017 album. Google Photos sucks.

  • Events
    • Went to Eric B's son's (Cruz) 3rd birthday party on S 12/2 and walked the W&OD trail afterward to give Maia a nap. Did the 3rd and final raking for the year. Had the night off as Rebecca took Maia to Ghazaley's Christmas Party.

    • Had another Cafesano family dinner on F 12/8.

    • It snowed on S 12/9. Rebecca took Maia to the farmer's market and then we went to the Smiths for Game Night.

    • It hail-snowed on F 12/15 and we got pizza from Joe's Pizzaria for dinner, finding it much better than what Domino's has degraded to these days.

    • We went to "Scotch Night" at Car and Ben's on S 12/16. Maia did not partake.

    • It was warm enough to take a walk in the park on M 12/18.

    • Mary came to visit Maia on W 12/20, then Sara moved into our basement for the holidays.

    • Maia learned to clap on H 12/21.

    • We discovered that Sara knew how to play multi-person solitaire as well, and played all evening long after a dinner of shrimp quinoa on F 12/22.

    • Rebecca threw a bachelorette party for Annie on S 12/23.

    • We walked up Juniper Avenue to see Christmas Lights on S 12/24.

    • We visited both sets of grandparents on Christmas on M 12/25.

    • Maia learned to roll over completely, but only towards the left on W 12/27.

    • We had Jonathan over for a salmon dinner on H 12/28.

    • Had a Cookie Decorating Party on F 12/29.

    • Went to Grace and Andrew's wedding with Maia in Alexandria on S 12/30.

    • Had a low-key New Year's Eve with Sara, Car, and Ben.

  • Projects
    • Installed new venetian blinds for the upstairs rooms after the last cheap 2004 set finally split in half from vigorous cord pulling on F 12/1.

    • We got a tiny red food processor and Rebecca started pureeing everything for Maia on S 12/2.

    • I bought a recorder and started learning to play it for additional Maia distraction opportunities on H 12/14.

    • I took the last half of the month off from work because why not?

    • Took care of some baby.

  • Consumerism
    • Bought a Nintendo Switch and a few games on T 12/5 to open up new options for things to do while walking around the house with Maia sleeping on me.

    • Got to level 961 in Overwatch.

    • Not a lot of TV or music this month -- slowly slogging through the second season of Stranger Things.

December's Final Grade: A-, The unusual cold severely reduces baby-distraction options, but it has been a fun, relaxing month with good company.

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