Rendition of Events

An artist's rendition of the terror.

Merry Christmas

                                   

Merry Christmas Everyone! I tried to photo-document Queequeg uprooting my pine trees and lampposts in our little Christmas village, as she does several times a day, instead she sits in the window nonchalant when the camera is out. She really is Godzilla Cat. Sigh.

Muffins

With a longer work commute now, I have discovered the value in mini muffins. I had written off the mini muffin before as a needless size in the muffin world. It's the perfect sized morning commute snack. Ridiculously easy to put together and bake, and a mindless mobile breakfast. Now the search for a few good muffin recipes.

Relaxed Cats

Our cats seemed to adjust quickly to the new place, falling back into familiar poses and haunts. Diogenes flopped across a chair.

Queequeg sleeping under Zachary's desk.

New Places

In my relative blog silence, a lot has changed for us in the last 6 weeks. In the end of September, Zachary's promotion went into full effect and started managing his own store. 60 miles away to the west. That new change spurred on a housing search for us to relocate somewhere in the greater Wausau area. After about a month of commuting for Z, we found a nice place on the east side in Weston that will be convenient for Zachary and easy highway access for me to get to my job. I still have my same job, just a longer commute now.

Let me just say, moving sucks. We started moving about 2 weeks ago and about 90% of our belongings are here now. Hopefully this week, the rest will get here. One fun fact for me, being nearly 30, its officially the first time I truly moved. College doesn't really count and when Zachary and I got married, my parents moved out of the house, not me. In the moving process I found a lot of "gems" we/I forgot we even had. I may make a blog post soon highlighting some of the fun finds once everything is here and sorted through.

So this new location starts a new chapter for us. The Wausau area has a lot to explore and we are looking forward to it. Lots of hiking/biking trails, rivers, natural areas, dining, and more. We haven't spent much time here in the past, so for a while, every outing will be adventure. (Woohoo, I made it to Target and back and didn't get lost) Id like to think my blogging will be more fruitful now with things settling down again. We'll see :-)

Random Quee

Holland

Friday we drove to Holland. Zachary grew up in Holland a number of years, and enjoyed showing me some of his old haunts. Friday evening through Sunday we hung out with Ben and Amanda. Ben and Zachary reminisced about the old days growing up. Ben and Amanda also taught us a bunch of games, including Dominion and Settlers of Catan. Ben brought us to his local game store and we bought our own starter set of Dominion cards. (Thanks for the crash course and getting us hooked :-) Sunday morning we left and headed home. By Sunday afternoon, we ended our trip, by completing the loop around Lake Michigan. 1200 miles around.  Many memories to cherish.