Lindsey’s BFF Taya has been staying with us since Christmas day (since Lindsey had a couple of weeks off from work) which means that for the past few days I have been a tourist-by-proxy.  She made Taya a binder containing a schedule of events and places to eat complete with menu print-outs and maps.  It’s amazing, but also a little insane.

Christmas day was nice and relaxing.  We slept in and then as Christmas tradition dictates, Lindsey heated up some Lil’ Smokies and pumpkin bread.  Oh, I guess I should mention that our Christmas present to ourselves from each other (if that makes sense) was a new plasma TV!  Just doing our part to help the economy. YES WE CAN! USA! You can see it here. It’s a 42″ Panasonic and we love love love it. Even though we got a great deal, it was easily the most expensive joint-purchase we’ve ever made. Of course we got each other other presents too, because what’s Christmas morning without unwrapping stuff, right?  So we put out our Christmas spread, Lindsey put on a Christmas CD and we then turned on the TV to this on-demand high-definition recording of a fireplace. If you ever wondered who would actually watch a fireplace on TV, now you know. It was oddly entrancing.

So that was Christmas and it was really nice. The days since have been packed with activities even though for over a week now we’ve both been under the weather to varying degrees. But having a visitor means sucking it up (literally, I’m talking about the snot in your nose) and powering through. Unfortunately I’m experiencing the worst that this illness has to offer and at this point I think I’m going to be sleeping in the new year. We have no plans yet and unless something awesome comes up, I’d be content to get crunk on Theraflu and watch Dick Clark’s corpse “rock” in the new year in my pjs. (Seriously, he must look pretty scary in high-definition). So, yeah, I DONG KNOW.

And if you’ve been sleepin’ on Lindsey’s Flickr, pop over and check it out.  There are some pretty awesome pictures of our holiday/my birthday party from, uh, almost 2 weeks ago.  Sorry we’re so bad at updating!  We resolve to update more in ‘09!