Nick ‘n’ Heather

Wow, a lot has happened since the last update. I headed back to Ada and chilled out there until Christmas Eve night. We had our little Olson family Christmas and it was a good time. I got pots and pans so I can cook even more delicious food. Besides that I got some more gadgets and gizmos to go along with all the other ones that seem to keep piling up. After a bit of supper I made my way back to Moorhead where I managed to squeeze a few of Cindy’s ribs into my tummy as well. After that there were more presents.  I finally got a digital camera, which was my gift from Heather, so there will be a ton of pictures that keep showing up on here from now on.

After much some more Guitar Hero downstairs we all managed to call it a night.  In the morning, we got up and prepped.  We made our way over to Heather’s aunt’s house.  There we started the routine all over again, gifts chatting, presents, the whole deal.  There everyone just brought one gift with a max value of $15 and everyone just picked a gift at random.  Heather got Rummikub and picked out a book.  After we managed to extract ourselves and I could drag Heather away from the cookies we made our way back to Ada again.  There it was more foods and presents.  After the festivities we got down to the Olson tradition of card playing.  A good time was had by all and we played cards for hours.  Eventually, all the fortunes had been won and lost and everyone headed off to bed.

Wednesday was not too much happening.  We sat around a bunch and that night stopped uptown where my friend Blair was having a little graduation party.  A couple of friends from high school were there and Heather had a good time chatting up with Blair about snowboarding.  As we were leaving Heather was sniffing the air and declared that Ada smelled like beef jerky.  I do believe that was a compliment.

Thursday we lounged around and Heather decided she was going to go snowmobiling, but I’ll let her cover that.  That night we had to take family pictures for the church and afterwards we headed back to Ada with Brian in tow because he was having car issues.  That night we met up with Heather’s family at the nursing home where Curt’s mom was.  There Heather got to see her favorite niece, baby Addison.  We headed back to Heather’s house where I was told I had to set up the Wii.  There we played a lot of bowling and Guitar Hero before finally going to bed.

Friday was pretty much the same thing again, lounging, food, gifts, Wii, etc, etc…

Saturday we packed up and headed back to the big city.  We got in around 5 and promptly did nothing.  We were pretty worn out.   Sunday was more of the same except we did pick up a bit because my aunt was coming over.  They stopped in to visit for a while and after that we bopped over to Ryan’s to watch some of the Vikings game.

Monday I worked and Heather made mice, she can fill in on that one.   Monday night we went to a coworkers where we played Rock Band and hung out waiting for the ball to drop.  Tim came and hung out as well and it was pretty fun.  Tim ended up crashing at our apartment because it was so late.

He took off early this morning and Heather and I have done our best to refuse to get up since.  I’m leaving it up to Heather to fill in the details on this post because there was just to much to cover in one shot.

So Heather is down here on “vacation” for the next couple days. She’s all done with finals and school for a few weeks and she says that she needs a break. I sure wish I could just jet off into the sunset and relax.

Today was evidently “Lazy Day” on the vacation itinerary. She didn’t haul her butt out of bed until I got home for lunch. The best part of the whole deal is that I’ve created a new game to get her motivated. I’ve declared that once your feet touch the ground you have to get up. This works quite well because Heather is 5′5″ and I’m 6′5″. I also outweigh her by at least 150 pounds. So it’s not really a fair fight, so far Heather has gotten up every time we’ve played the game.

So we’re taking it easy during the week and probably heading back Friday night or Saturday morning. There we will be bouncing from Ada to Moorhead to make sure we hit all the high points and don’t miss out on any presents.

Heather also has snowboarding on her mind. It sounds like she’ll be hitting the slopes tomorrow morning while I slave away at the office.

In not such great news, an old friend from high school, Amanda, is now working on her tan at the lovely sand beaches in Iraq. I wish her the best of luck and to get home safe, and it sounds like she’ll have internet access while she is working there so she’ll probably be even more responsive than usual!

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas, not sure how much I’ll be blogging over the holidays but who, knows, I have a new labtop so I’ll might pop up from time to time. I’ve even been able to keep Heather blogging by pestering her a bunch about it. Good night, all.

This weekend, Nick and I made cookies. It was a lot of fun and more fun to eat them. I bought a kit to make Christmas cookies at the grocery store on Saturday morning. It said it had the dough rolled out and 2 packets of icing included. The image on the front had pictures of stars, trees and stockings so I ASSUMED that there were cookie cutters inside or they were pre-cut. Oh how I was wrong! Well, Nick does not have any cookie cutters and decided to be boring and make circle cookies with a water glass. I, being the creative one, decided to make actual Christmas cookies and preceded to make my own designs by carving them out with a butter knife. In the end, because I took that extra step of love, mine were so much better and tasted wonderful! If you want to see the creations we made, go here:{wp-gallery-remote: gallery=0; rootalbum=227; showalbumtitle=true; showimagesheader=true;}

This week is not cool at all. Currently, I am sitting in the computer lab on campus. I have been here since 9 this morning working on a a take-home final. For one of the questions, you have to describe three views of rhetoric as epistemological and identify theorists in these areas. What is rhetoric as epistemological you say? Well, I am not sure either! Supposedly, it basically means knowledge. But that is up to your discretion because everything is viewed as you see it. Wait, that doesn’t make sense. We just learned all semester about different theories to examine artifacts on, yet everything we learned is up to interpretation. So exactly what did I learn? How to skew the truth!