Good weekend

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Had a pretty good, albeit busy, weekend, We spent Friday evening out at Easton meeting a fellow blogger and his wife for dinner and good conversation, then spent Saturday cleaning and preparing to have a couple of folks over to our house for dinner, and then spent Sunday getting caught up with Christmas shopping and then trying to spend some quiet time at home by ourselves. All in all a pretty good balance. I enjoy being with people but it’s a very tiring experience for little introverted me, and holiday shopping is just plain exhausting all the way around, so the quiet time last night was very well appreciated. Hopefully I’ll make it through all the extra social holiday times with a good balance of quiet time alone to keep me from getting grumpy. I’m sure Angela would appreciate that too! 🙂

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