Happy 2011

The new year is here! I hope everybody had a great 2010, and we are all looking forward to a wonderful 2011. Here at the Bidwell household we are still in waiting mode.  It won't be much longer now and Amelia will be here. Amanda thought it would be cool if Amelia were the first baby born in 2011 and we would get a year supply of diapers or formula. I thought it would be cool if she were the last baby born in 2010 and we would get a year supply of tax deduction and didn't have to meet another insurance deductible.  Alas, neither of them happened, and that is okay.  We still have a couple more weeks until Amelia is supposed to be here anyway, so it is probably for the best that she didn't come early.  We are both ready for her to get here.  I know it will mean less sleep, movie watching, reading, and writing, but I don't care.  I just really need to know that she is healthy and both mother and baby are home and safe.

For the new year my mom and dad came to visit us for a few days.  We didn't get to see them for Christmas, so it was very nice to have them come down. We didn't do a whole lot, just hung out.  We went out to eat and they watched a few movies with me. On Friday we went to see TRUE GRIT, which was great.  I am glad they were able to make the trip down and I am looking forward to seeing them again in a few weeks when Amelia is here.

Yesterday we were pretty busy. We got all the Christmas decorations put away and the house is back in order.  Today we have more cleaning and football watching.  Big game for the Colts today. I was excited to find out they are actually on tv down here this week.  I've got my Colts gear on, and looking forward to a win.  I did not think they would have a chance at the playoffs this year. Hopefully they make it long enough that Amelia can wear her Colts outfit to watch her first game.   After the game I have some actual work to get done before tomorrow morning.  Luckily I can just log into my work computer from home and it shouldn't take me more than an hour.

I saw a surge of hits today on my first blog of 2010 named "Sleeping Through The New Year".  It is short so I am going to re-post it here.  I hope everybody realized it was supposed to be funny and I wasn't really suffering from depression. At least this year we stayed awake until midnight...

For the first time in my memory I didn't stay awake to ring in the new year.  This year we opted to stay home rather than attend some lame party.  However, staying home on new years is pretty lame in itself.  We made some dinner, watched some tv, then headed to bed by 10.  I was sleeping when 2010 arrived, and it seems like I have been tired ever since it got here.  Last weekend we got some snow and the temperatures dropped down into the single digits this week.  The house always seems to be freezing cold.  When my alarm goes off in the morning it is dark, and the last thing I want to do it get out of my warm bed.  This entire week I sat bleary eyed at my desk sipping coffee, trying to wake up and get motivated.  It didn't really work.  By Tuesday I was just waiting for the weekend to get here.  Now the weekend is here, and it isn't all I was hoping it would be.  Our Friday night was pretty lame, and Saturday isn't looking good either.  The wife is gone.  I am going to watch a movie and go to bed.  Tomorrow I will probably sit around and watch football and complain about having to go to work on Monday.  Most likely I will oversleep Monday morning and have to rush in to work.  I will undoubtedly be tired.  By Tuesday I will be looking forward to another uneventful weekend. Thus the monotony continues.  Happy 2010."