Happy New Year!

I know I'm very overdue for another blog, as usual. It's just a matter of making the time.
Our Christmas and New Years seasons were very nice. Not very much snow, but don't you fret, Mother Nature is making up for it in the blustery month of January. Yesterday we got several inches - all coming in the late afternoon hours. This, of course, made driving home after work somewhat of a scary proposition... We had people on Main Street still going 50 or 60 miles per hour - um, not such a great idea when the roads are slushy and slippery. Just in case any of those drivers out there need clarification as to driving safety, I can give it to you. Please ask. No really.
School has started once again for Zak. He is taking four English classes this semester, which he alternately feels as though he will enjoy, then feels as though the classes (and his professors) will eat him alive! I know that he will do very well, as he always does. Incidentally, for anyone who is in college or loves books--half.com is the place to buy. I love that place! We ended up spending about $125 for books that would otherwise have cost us much more. (When I was in college, I think I regularly spent between $300 and $400 on books.) That $125 is including shipping and handling, so these books are very inexpensive!! Also, I have recently started selling on half.com and have found it to be very, very easy. Not like e-bay. Selling on e-bay scares me a little, for some reason. (I guess the same reason that corn mazes scare me - no reason at all.)
Work is plugging along for me. We have some very optimistic goals for the year, so that will keep life interesting and challenging. Notice how I never say much about work? I don't really know why that is. Probably due to confidentiality issues. If anyone wants to know more, just ask me. I still won't tell... ha ha ha. :)
Ah! One other item of interest - Zak has decided to buy his brother Rhett's scooter. We are (he is) sort of (very) excited about this! It should be fun to ride when the weather is a little warmer, though Zak thinks the conditions NOW are pretty good...that crazy kid!
Um... can't think of anything else earth-shattering at the moment, although I do have a bit of a testimonial to give. Every once in a while I will think of a movie that I thought was pretty cool as a kid, and suggest to Zak that we hunt it down and watch it. His advice, nine times out of ten, is to leave the movie in the past. If we watch it again, he says, we will just be disappointed, and wonder what in the world was wrong with us when we were kids to make us think that it was that great. I am saddened to say that he is correct. We checked out "In Like Flint" from our local library the other night and watched it. While I think it still has great merit as a spy-spoof, and parts of it were pretty funny, it was somehow not as great as I remembered. (Sorry Dad! But hey, our library does have "Forbidden Planet" so maybe I'll get crazy one day and check that one out!)
So, boys and girls, the lesson is--Zak is right. Think of those movies with happy and fond memories, but don't watch them again!
And with that, I leave you for the time being. I will do my very best to be a more frequent blogger in 2006!