I just realized I've been gone a long time!

Well.  The Staph healed up nicely once the necrotic tissue was gone.  It was not MRSA, but probably the same strain that Dad apparently carries.  Yeah, my Dad is a Staph carrier.  Turns out, about 30% of the population is like that.  So if you find out that you or someone you love carries this bug around, you/they should use Lever2000 soap (according to Dad's doctor) to help keep the bacteria in check.  My wrist now has a dark pink curcular spot that feels kind of numb.  Sometimes it aches if I use my wrist too much.  The end.  :-)

So then it was time for Christmas.  I tried desperately to balance resting/healing with preparing for the festivities.  I didn't succeed very well.  Christmas Eve we went to my Aunt's parent's house on my Dad's side.  Gotta love explaning relations.  Anyway, that was pretty fun, except DH had a cold.  He went home and I went to see my aunt and uncle's "new" renovated house.  It was cool.

Christmas morning I awoke to discover that DH had given me an amazing present- his cold!  We went to the inlaws and opened presents while Skyping with BIL and his wife in North Carolina.  FIL had gotten WiFi just for the occasion.  It was a big hit.  MIL and Grandma want iPads now.  :-) 

The gifts we gave weren't very inspired this year.  All the sickness and surgeries kind of sapped our creativity.  MIL got a DVD of M.A.S.H., FIL got a nifty folding saw.  Grandparents and BIL got gift cards.  DH got a cold brew coffee system.  Apparently it makes better coffee than even the french press.  The one taste I had was not better.  I may need to try again.  He got some other techy gadgets that I can't remember.  I got a handmade crochet hook! Size M.  Tuvok ate my other size M hook.  I also got a proportional measurer thing.  Yeah, I'll take pictures...  And I got a new lens for my camera.  It is a Sigma 18-50mm.  Before, the widest lens I had was 24mm, which was plenty for 35mm format cameras, but digital has some sort of distortion thing so all the lenses work like longer ones.  That's wonderful for my telephotos but it made my 24mm into almost what a 50mm was before.  The 18mm takes good indoor shots and I can zoom short distances too.  That really comes in handy.  Changing lenses all the time gets annoying.

My Mom and her sisters (and my cousin and Dad and brother) came over on Monday.  We had a "Stitch and Talk".  Everyone brought their craft projects and some food and we sat around and visited and ate and worked on our projects all day.  That is just about the best kind of day possible.  At least for us.  Later, we went to Michael's to look at crafty things and then we went to look at Christmas lights.  We went to the Chesapeake campus and ooohed and aaaahed over those a while, then drove to my boss's house to look at his lights.  He has 5 acres packed full of lights and inflateables and stuff.  My family was like WWWWOOOOOOAH!!!  I felt pride, even though I had nothing to do with his lights.  Lol!

We went to visit our friends in Norman for New Years Eve.  The boys played their nerdy Star Wars game and my friend and I talked and I worked on my afghan I'm making.  Then her younger daughter woke up and we watched her until midnight happened and then we went home.  I don't know what it is about a baby, but you don't talk or do anything but stare at the kid and watch whatever she does.  Very strange.  Must be something hardwired in so the kid doesn't get hurt or run off or whatever.  Even though she didn't feel very good, she was still a pleasent baby.  Every so often she'd make a miserable face, bury herself in her mom's chest and say, Buahhhh....   That was about the only evidence that she was sick.  Other than the river of snot...  lol.  Poor kid.

Tuesday was the Fiesta Bowl.  OSU won!!!!  Barely.  But still.  We're Number #3!!!!  This is the first time in my life that I've been a fan of a winning team!!! 

So we're just about caught up.  But it is 9:00 so I'm going to cut it off here.  Good night.