Sheep Guarding Llama

Thursday.  Got up and fired up Skyrim on the Steam laptop in our upstairs bedroom.  This is where I will be today.

The kids are all having fun playing with their cousins.  They don’t need us around at all.

Tonight, after a few years of playing and booking about two hundred and seventy total hours against the game, I have “completed” Skyrim.  There are still a lot of side missions and expansions that I can play, and after taking a break I am sure that I will happily return to it and play through them.  I want to get as much out of the game and universe as I can, but I have completed all of the core and main quests and have moved the main story to completion.  Overall, it was pretty good, although I feel like my involvement and interaction with the game world was much too shallow, as is often my complaint in games of this nature.  The whole “I’m a nobody” and a few minutes later “I’m the saviour of the whole world” all combined with “I have no impact on the world and no influence” is too weird.  But the game is overall pretty fantastic and I enjoyed it a lot.

Wednesday. Somewhat busy day with the kids and family down here in Houston.  It is Dominica’s mother’s birthday, so we celebrated that this evening.

We’ve been pretty much just sitting around the house, visiting with family, playing games on Steam, or watching television since Christmas.

A quiet day to recover from Christmas.  Helped the kids with their new toys today, they have so many things to play with.  We had to get a lot of them packed up and into the car just so that there was room to move around the house.  Dominica and I are able to stay in Houston for a few days because the incredibly cold weather that we have been expecting in Dallas is going to hold off until the weekend.  So we get to relax a little bit.

Merry Christmas, everyone!  We had our traditional Christmas at the Grices’ this year.  We managed to sleep in a little more than usual, but not much.  We had our regular marathon of presents and were exhausted by the middle of the afternoon, as usual.

The girls had a really nice Christmas and love all of their stuff.  Luciana had an extremely “crafty” Christmas this year.  She has really gotten into arts and crafts as her “thing”, she calls it DIY stuff.

This is it, Christmas Eve, the night before the big show.  It’s a big cooking day, the women were busy all day making food.  I hid much of the day upstairs working on Skyrim when I got the chance.  Tonight, of course, once we got the kids off to bed in their new pajamas it was time for the many hours of setting up the house for tomorrow morning.