Ahh a Hybrid

So my work has joined the Eco revolution. I now am driving a Prius as my work vehicle. The car is interesting. I get about 43.5 miles per gallon with it. It gets up and goes fairly well, despite what I had heard. One of the more interesting features that comes with these new cars is my ability to get into them and start them without the keys even leaving my pocket. Apparently the car senses that the keys are close by and unlocks the door just by me pulling the handle. The one odd thing however is there is no key thing to turn just a power button. Just like it is a computer or something. It is quite strange. The problem is however that the car is so quiet while running. There have been many times were I have left the car for an hour or so while it was still on. I place the car in park(which is a button as well.. quite odd) and get out without remember that I forgot to turn it off. This usually happens when I had the radio turned so I don't have any real audible Que. So far I am quite pleased with the car, and with the 3.09 gas prices I wouldn't mind getting one of these for myself :). However from what I understand, if these things do break, (which none of the the 5 we have at the station have, the oldest being just over a year) they are a pain to fix. Just that the parts are specialized and most mechanics don't know how to fix them. The only other issue is the driver seat doesn't go as far back as I would like. I Just need an inch or so more and it would be great. But hey I am picky.

Meet Puck

Saturday, we went over the the SPCA and found a little mischievous bundle to take home.

He's a cute little thing, and right now has the tentative name of "Puck." For his Mischievous nature as well as his tendency to bounce around all over the apartment. He likes to run and slide on our Hard wood Floors.

All of the Pictures where taken at the SPCA.

Snow

We had a little bit of snow fall over the weekend. It all came on Saturday, and some of it still hasn't left yet. I have a few pictures I will be posting later when I get home. It was only a dusting. Nothing too special to be honest. Even though I worked all through the snow, neither to roads nor my job really suffered greatly because of it. I will say however that thermals are the way to go to stay comfortable. I a pair of long johns has made the cold not feel that bad at all. Now that I have good ear-muffs as well, I say bring it on.

Snow Out the Back Porch

Snow in the Trees

Drive by picture taking.. random yard.

New Place

Well we started the Move on Jan 2nd, and as of now we are 99% moved out of our last places. Still have some small things to do with cleaning and some final once overs, but that is all. We are not living out of boxes, but we still have a lot of them around. I took a few haphazard pictures before the furniture started to be moved in. I guess these are the "before" pictures. I will be a couple weeks before we are ready for some after Pictures.

Living Room. (I'm not quite in the far corner) The dining room is to the left there. The right opening that you see leads to the front door(right) and then to the kitchen and hallway to the back rooms(left)

This is the the kitchen. Taken from the breakfast nook. Here you can also see Kim on the phone with the movers.

Dining room. Door ahead leads to breakfast nook, and to the left is

obviously our back porch balcony. A lot larger then my last balcony I'll add.

Hall way. To the right is the Master bedroom. (Kim's) If you look closely you can see that there is two openings to the left. The first is to the computer room, the second to my bedroom. At the end of the hall of course is 1 of the bathrooms.

This eventually became our Computer room. (Where I am sitting right now typing things)So it will probably remain that dark.

Christmas

Christmas has come and gone now. This is the first year that I can remember that I put up a Christmas tree in my apartment. But of course I had help.

It was a small thing but it served it's purpose quite well.

It is sort of disheartening that Christmas time has already come and gone, but then again my checking account is glad it is gone. I hope not to have to work on Christmas next year. It did put a damper on things and make it so I couldn't spend as much time as I wanted with friends and family.

I hope that everyone has had a Happy Holiday Season, and so far a great New Year.

And So it Begins

I will try my hand at a blog. Yup the old blog. Thoughts events things going on. Hopefully I can keep family and friends entertained and up to date on things going on. Since it seems I have been quite bad at doing that as of late. Here is my first post. No information given yet :)