So how are you liking 2006 so far? The new year being good to you? Thought this first post in over a month might be a good opportunity to update you guys on some of the basic facts of life around here. It's a sad fact that reading this journal doesn't give you long-distance readers an actual look into our lives - just whatever I manage to churn out every week.

Things are good overall. Not perfect, but decent.

Lisa and I have been married for eight months and twelve days now. We're still happy and together. Lisa's busy churning through the thank you cards - I'd help, but we'd like people to be able to read them. Conversations have been had on increasing our family by one...but we can't afford a puppy right now.

Speaking of pets, everyone is fine there. Samantha seems to have recovered from that seizure she had a couple months back, but we're certain she's lost some brain cells. She seems much dumber than before. Pippin has been trying to talk - he's making new noises that are most definitely not bird chirps - but he's as yet incomprehensible.

The house is holding up well. No major problems so far. Gas bills are higher than we expected, but we expected that (we figured that no matter how much we budgeted, the bills would be more). I'm amassing clutter in the basement and garage at a staggering rate.

We're both still working. My job is only getting more secure with the loss of one of the other coordinators, and I will be training the new hire, so I'm feeling pretty secure. My appraisal this year was certainly glowing. Lisa's finding that employment following her four-month 'outdoor excursion' is better than she feared. Her new manager seems to be going out of his way to make sure she gets all the opportunities that her skills merit. In any case, we're paying the bills. Mostly on time too.

We've been to more parties in the last month than in years. Ronja and Joel's Non-Trad, Tony and Mary-Anne's Christmas bash, R&J's New Year's Eve, Tim's New Year's Eve's Eve, Connie and Colin's New Years Day Slothfest...we're invited to more this month and we're seeing what we can squeeze in. This is awesome because we often feel way out of the loop, that we don't get to be as social as we would like. Feel free to invite us places. We like it.

The families are good. We had my folks, my grandparents and Lisa's mom for our first Christmas dinner in the new house, which was awesome, and other than having so many potatoes that I couldn't successfully mash them smooth, it was a success. Everyone seems healthy and I got along better with Granddad this holiday than I have in years. I know I'm pretty much a complete mystery to him, and he's looked askance at everything I've done for a long time. Maybe it was the domestic pleasures and the fact that we included him in our lives that helped.

Grandma was out from the coast, which is always marvelous. (Hi Grandma!) Don't ever play Scrabble with the woman. She's a shark.

Some of you may know that Lisa's been having this snoring problem. It's been going about six months and came on rather sudden, so we're not sure what is causing it. I am an extremely light sleeper, and while this hasn't been a problem in the ten years we've been together (Generally the opposite in fact. I sleep better with Lisa than I have in my entire life), when combined with the snoring it's bad. So Lisa snores and I wake up and can't go back to sleep until she quiets down. I wake her to get her to shift positions (which helps sometimes - but not always) but I do that too much and she gets oversensitive to me and doesn't sleep well. I get oversensitive to the possibility that she might snore so lay awake waiting for it to start...it has us both seriously messed up.

Earplugs don't help. Moistening nose drops don't help. Nose strips don't help. We've been using a white noise generator to mask the lighter sounds for me, which is helping. I'm taking tryptophan to relax before bed, which is helping. Lisa's reducing her doses of her nasal spray, which we suspect may be drying out her nasal passages, which is helping, but causing a return of the problems she was taking the spray for in the first place. We've fought a few times about it, mostly out of exhaustion than any sort of real anger, and we keep heading to the doctor to see what else can be done. Ugh.

I've been very, very ill. A heavy cold before the holidays left us both with laryngitis for Christmas, and kicked my asthma into an all-time high - only now are my lungs relaxing. Lisa had a bad batch of snoring after New Years, which led to exhaustion on my part and getting sick again, losing me a day-and-a-half of work and ruining the weekend. I'm feeling mostly good now with some good sleeps under my belt. A bit of coughing and some shortness of breath, but that's it.

We don't have any big plans this year. Our vacations look like they will let us have a week at the cabin this summer, which would mark our first time there in years. We're not volunteering for any sort of Con-Version organization besides the Slave Auction this year, so we' don't have that hanging over us. I'd like to get more writing done and attend the occasional meeting of my writer's group, but I haven't managed that so far. Lisa's looking at new jobs within her company and figuring how they might fit in with possible maternal plans at some point in the future, but nothing is definite there.

That, in a nutshell, is it. We work, we come home, we try to see friends and family as much as we can, we get through the medical problems as best as possible. Life is going on much as always. We are happy, we are still in love.

There you go!

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