Atomic Monster Cafe: Welcome 2018...

Monday, January 1, 2018

Welcome 2018...

...and who could have guessed? It's snowing again...how unusual...come on Lake Michigan, freeze already! It's been cold enough...single digits, even below zero at times...hoping less open water will help shut down the lake effect snow machine that so far has operated continuously for the last 10 days or so.

So another year has come and gone, and last night we welcomed 2018 in our usual manner...we watched When Harry Met Sally...

...saw the ball drop...

...then shared a kiss and some champagne at midnight.

Today is officially "de-decorate" day...

...won't all happen in one day...didn't get put up in one day...but by nightfall most of Christmas will have been vanquished, boxed and stored away for another year...so sad...

Now begins the longest stretch of the year...we've just finished two and a half months of "the holidays"...Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's...decorating / celebrating is over and it's time to plow through the next three months of hard winter.

Thankfully in our home we have Karen's birthday and Valentine's Day to brighten up these winter blues...

...and work promises to be crazy since we have a major deadline looming in mid-February.

Hopefully I'll blink a couple of times and it will be spring again...