A Christmas Tale

Hope any who read this had a Merry Christmas. I did. Also generated a new Christmas story for my wife. I purchased a gift for my wife and misplaced it. Put it someplace safe from snooping eyes. My wife always has been a bit of a snoop. When we married and moved into our house she went through all my stuff looking for whatever. She found a ring that I had found, a long time ago in a place far, far away. Turns out the stone in that ring had a value of about $10,000. Oh. My. That was a good find. Anyway, Christmas Eve I could not find my wifes' gift. Christmas Day no luck. Day after Christmas still no luck. I mean I looked everywhere in our house. In the camper. The cars. Even the snowbank in the off chance I dropped it. In the meantime she is not happy. First, because she knows it's been purchased, I had my oldest daughter with me. Secondly, because I can't find it. Thirdly, because it is HER gift. Always this kind of thing happens to her. So I went to town on the 26th and purchased a replacement gift. I really had no choice. Arrived home and when she got up from her nap I presented her with a belated Christmas gift. Peace in the family. End of story. Not quite. On the morning of the 27th she asked me if she could look for my gift to her. Yeah, OK, good luck. 5 minutes later she is back with the goods. Under the desk in the room we have the computer, the one I'm using now, there is a half stack of blank CD's in plastic shrink wrap type of packaging. I dropped her gift, it's not very big, into that empty space. It was low enough one could not see it and I didn't. So the whole time it was right in front of me. I was relieved and so was she. Also, she then had her choice of Christmas presents, and now there is truly peace in the family.
OK then. On the 26th, before I went to town, I ran/walked around the block. 4 miles in 50 minutes. A nice day weatherwise 27 degrees, cloudy and no wind. Didn't do the kind of time I thought I might, but now I have a goal. 40 minutes to get around the block, that will be my new goal. And I will try to reach that goal by the end of January '06. There is one 1 mile section that was a bit of a problem. It is a dirt road that was a sheet of ice. Literally. I had to run on the snowbank. That was difficult but I managed. And after I didn't feel too bad. Did some stretching to cool down and a nice hot tub later that evening to keep loose.
On the 27th I did my 2.5 mile route. I would have done it on the 28th but were going to gone most of the day and won't have time to get a run/walk in. Not too bad 30 minutes with the same weather. Felt good actually. I hope to get a run in Thursday and/or Friday mornings. We'll see about as I work at noon both days and this is my weekend to work.
Alrighty then. Gotta go. Cyaz.