Redmond Hotties have survived!

Hello All and Merry Christmas!
I am going to attempt this blog posting for I seem to be retarded and have never been able to log on.
Well, the big news is that the hotties survived the storm and 7 days without power. Joy spent most of her time with Dennis who had power, Janett toughed it out in the house for most of the outage, and Shannon found refuge at new boyfriends condo and Crystal's apartment. It really wasn't too bad not having power for we have a gas insert and a wood stove but it was rather annoying being in the dark. But all is well for now, we am praying we don't get more winds for we have one tree "hugging" another tree and both are leaning towards that house. I will post the pictures when I learn how to do it or when Joy and Janett show me how.
Joy is spending Christmas and her birthday in New York City with The Dennis, Janett is going home and planning a snowboarding trip with her hot boy-toy, and Shannon is finally at home in Chelan enjoying the snow from inside the house. It doesn't compare to Megan and Matt's Colorado covering.
We are doing our best to keep the parties coming, the next big on will be St. Patrick's Day and I'm sure there will be a few little ones in between (like Joy and Crystal's birthdays).
Graduation was good, we all learned about the 4 million items that we now carry in our "PLU backpack." For those of you who didn't have to suffer through graduation you were lucky, all I can say is thanks to text messaging the ceremony went a little faster.
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Let it snow.....

Hello All!
Just another update from the snowy Rockies! I thought I would let you all know about my first (and second) experience snowboarding as well as let you see the effects of the storm that you all just had up there. (Glad to hear that you are all safe and sound-looked awful in the news here!)
That storm hit us on Wednesday morning. I had just made it up to work (driving slow on my new tires) and the second I walked in the door, the snow really started falling. I was told that we would be able to leave by noon. Well my desk sits by two walls of windows and all I did was sit and stare at the snow that was quickly building up-not good. I actually started to make myself physically sick from stress and anxiety-I felt dizzy!! Anyway-I got in my car and made the looonnng drive home. It was like driving with a hangover in a completely white cloud-I couldn't see anything!!! When I finally made it home, I actually threw up-can you believe that?? I don't think I'm cut out for this yet. Matt made his way home from work and we just hibernated the rest of the night and all of today. (The picture is actually my car buried in the snow in front of a line of cars in our neighborhood.)

Larry loves the snow!



As for the snowboarding- Matt and I headed up to Brekenridge so that I could take my snowboarding lessons. Matt dropped me off at the lesson and went off to ski the backcountry. I must say-it went much better than I thought it would. It sounds stupid but it was a lot slicker than I thought it would be-very slippery! I fell a few times but overall did very well. I actually just went out tonight and bought the whole setup! (Nothing like diving right in) Just say a prayer for me that I make it through the season without killing myself or breaking any body parts.

Due to all the skiing/snowboarding-we are behind on the work on our house which is why I have not posted pictures of that yet-those will be coming soon! We did get our guestroom setup while we were snowed in here so we're officially ready for all of you to come visit! More updates will come soon! I miss you all and keep the updates coming from your end-I like to read what's new with all of you.

Megan

It's Finally Me!

Hello all you colleagues! After months and months of having joining this blog on my list of things to do, I have finally done it. Since read those four million journal articles, write that paper, think about what to do with that client, and study for that comprehensive final are off the list, I have time to get to the important things. Thanks again Susanne for creating this place for us all to stay connected. It is a fabulous idea.

I have just returned from a very relaxing and interesting week in Victoria, BC. Three of my friends came up for graduation, and then we went up to Canada and spent a week in a time-share condo overlooking a gaggle of sailboats. We had High Tea at the Empress, saw Butchart Gardens in the day and at night with all of the Christmas lights, and ate lunch at a quaint restaurant named McMorran's right on the water where we were entertained by the owner, an 85-year-old man named Eric whose father built the restaurant. Eric used to run the place, but now his son does that while Eric is the parking guy. If I had the pictures and knew how to post them I would. : ) We also shopped in the rain and listened to many foreign accents and played cards and missed the killer storm that raged around here and had an all-around splendid time.

I did come home to a lot of shingles and branches in my yard, but the power was back on and my pipes were unfrozen, so I was happy. Now my friends have gone home, and I do have a lot to do, but am just enjoying the day and not even thinking about looking for a job. The branches are even still on the lawn.

It's a wonderful day.

Margie

Still waiting......

If you've checked my blog recently, you'll know it's been taken over by Christopher. Actually, it's been taken over by Christopher's grandparents who demand hourly updates on him..... ;)

In OTHER news in my life:

We're still waiting to find out where we'll end up after here. We were supposed to have found out the week before Thanksgiving............................................ :|

I'm catching up on all of therapy journals I've been collecting. I'm in the middle of an article in the Therapy Networker about the neurology behind emotion contagion. Interesting.

Any interesting clients???

I've started creating problems and analyzing them on my own. For instance, this is what I learned on Sunday at church. The Caucasian couple sitting in front of us had 4 children. Irish twins, possibly 16 (male) and 17 (female), 12 year old and possibly 2 year old. The mother and daughter were enmeshed. The oldest son and was detached and suffering from depression. The youngest child, who I believe was adopted (he's African American), needs more structure....1,2,3 magic....Husband and wife need couples therapy, because they were sitting so far from each other and didn't look at each other or talk during the entire service and I need to not sin. Also, attending the Christmas Eve mass 'does not count as mass for the week', according the priest, so I'll have to go again on Sunday to fill my quota lol......

So, yeah............there really isn't too much going on in my life other than raising Christopher at this point :) So I guess I'm just stopping by to say hi!!! :)