Happy New Year!

We will be spending New Year's Eve at home...as always!  When Jeff and I were dating and also first married, we would go out on New Year's Eve but were usually disappointed with how places would have special (expensive) menus or cover charges.  There was also something phony about the forced merriment that bothered me.  Maybe I'm just a Scrooge about New Year's Eve but I'm happiest staying home and off the road that's filled with drunk drivers.

We've been busy setting up all our electronic gadgets which always present issues to overcome.  Jeff is busy downloading apps on his new Kindle Fire HD and since we have Amazon Prime we decided to get a new Blu-Ray player so we could get free movies from Amazon Prime Instant Videos.  It also allows us to use things on our TV like Pandora and we were also able to watch all our Vimeo movies on our big screen TV.  It was so much fun to see things like Cooper as a puppy and the boys when they were so much younger.  We have so many TVs that we just take the old bluray player and move it into our bedroom and then take that DVD player and move it into the boy's room and then we usually offer that DVD player to Jessica and Pat.

Justin gave us a new wireless router for Christmas because our old one was having trouble reaching areas of our house.  We have a trilevel house so you need a special router that reaches multi-levels.  Jeff usually takes care of all the hardware installations like modems, routers, blurays, etc,,, and I handle the software.  We make a pretty good team.

Hope 2013 is a great year for all my blog friends, hope we don't fall off the fiscal cliff and I really hope we can get some meaningful reform to ban automatic weapons that our forefathers could have never imagined when they wrote the second amendment.  As for the idea of arming teachers.... seriously?!?  Teacher's don't get paid enough as it is and now you want them packing heat?  Pay me a teacher's salary PLUS a cop's salary and maybe I'll think about it!