Next to the Last Day of 2012

We took our Japanese guest, at his request, to Park Meadows Mall yesterday. I don't know if it was the frigid temperatures or post-Christmas madness, but the mall was crazy busy. We had a difficult time even getting out of the parking lot. But his shopping was a success and well worth the ordeal. (almost)

Today was our trip to Boulder. We had lunch at The Med with friends then walked up and down Pearl Street. Again, very cold. Still cold. Obnoxiously cold.

I'm making a very usual dinner (for us) at home tonight. Roast chicken, potatoes, beets, and green beans. Afterwards, he wants to go someplace "interesting". God help me, but I don't know anyplace interesting to take him. He likes to go to the clubs and I'm a tired 60 year-old. My daughter is having a New Year's Eve party tomorrow night and he's going. Then he has to be at the airport by 7:15. He says he'll sleep all the way home to Japan.

I'm going to have a nice New Year's Eve, mostly at home. I'm half of a designated driving team, a babysitter, and I have my own ritual of writing as the year comes to a close. I just have to get through tomorrow first.

Having fun at the mall.

I'm One Tired Crow

I've done a lot of granny-nanny stuff this week. I had a good time with my granddaughter, but she's like a wild space alien kinetic whirlwind machine. Okay. That simile sucked, but that just goes to show how tired I am. I'm too tired to backspace, and I'm too tired to think of something better to say, but what I said is basically true.

We have a nice young man arriving tomorrow for a visit. He's coming all the way from Japan to spend three full days in Colorado, then he's flying back to Tokyo. Hopefully this is an exploratory visit to pave the way for future, longer expeditions into the wild west. I hope he isn't a light sleeper since we live a block from the train track in Longmont.

I feel like that little bird on the left looks.

But in a good post-holiday kind of way.