Inauguration 2009- My day in pictures

Needless to say . . . there were alot of crowds!

Inauguration 2009-The swearing in (from the crowds view)

Inauguration 2009- Crowd chanting (again)

Inauguration 2009- The feel in the crowd

Seriously rowdy crowd. Yet it was totally quiet at moments as well.

Inauguration 2009- Before near the Washington Monument

Can you believe I was there! Holy cow!

Inauguration 2009: An Invitation to History

Not my video, but an interesting interview with one of the surviving Tuskegee airman. Pretty amazing.

Inauguration 2009 - People moving east toward the World War 2 Memorial before

Lots of people and really, really cold!

Inauguration 2009 - On the way to Inauguration 2009

As I was biking . . . it was way, way too cold to stop.

Inauguration morning . . . before

It's 6:30am in the morning . . . . on a workday that nonetheless I will be sneaking down to the
Inauguration on the Mall for. Luckily I live close enough to not worry too much about getting down

to the action. It is apparently already a mess this morning. Or a party. All depends on how you look

at it. So I am trying to get some work done first. We'll see! Show you all the pictures later!

Christmas Snowman with Dad

Christmas in the wacky Seattle snow. Dad and I took advantage to go sliding in the park in completely untouched powder. Which would have been even better on the mountains for skiing but was seriously difficult to navigate for traditional Seattlites.

Planet Earth

I am watching Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel. It really is amazing the strange creatures that live on Earth with us.

Dryer lint

Am I the only one who wonders each time I remove dryer lint whether there can't be some type of lint recycling mechanism? Why are we wasting cloth? Can't it be useful somehow?

Mischief's new favorite location

Mischief's new favorite location since we returned successfully from Christmas at my parents is the couch. Specifically my green soft throw blanket. She has progressed from just sleeping on it to snuggling under it, digging until it wraps around her. I noticed in the last few days that she has had threads between her nails, tufts of something. I found out this evening. . . blanket.

Needless to say I am putty to my kitty. She is been pretty chubby and I worried during Christmas that I was making the chubby worse. Since we have been home however, Mei-mei has not been eating that much and I have been trying to find the right combination of food for my girlie-girl. I am sure that my mother is right and kitty will settle in and get to eating me out of house and home. I am just a worry-wart and would feel better if she started sooner rather than later.

Christmas was an odd celebration this year. With Western Washington state completely snowed in for all intents and purposes the celebration was rather more quiet than normal. It took until the end of the stay to even be able to find a way to travel safely out and about and visit. After being diverted from my original landing time to Spokane on Saturday the whole trip seemed shorter than normal. My sense of time is all off.

The Twilight Zone marathon on Sci-fi channel for the New Year's has provided almost endless enjoyment for me. I do love the mystery of the unknown! Added to it all interspersed today with Chuck that I had recorded and been saving to watch without Samantha, who really doesn't like it!