Baby, it's cold outside.

And by cold, we mean COLD. It's currently 4 degrees, and with the windchill it's -17. (Just 2 hours ago, it was "only" -11, so the temperature is falling fast). We're definitely not looking forward to leaving the house tomorrow to go to work. On the bright side, though, at least it's only a two day work week!

But back to this week. Kim's division had a holiday luncheon on Monday, so she got a nice lunch...and the afternoon off! Eric's office had a luncheon on Thursday, but he had to work the rest of the day (bummer). Both of us did get our Christmas shopping done this week though, so we're ready for the big day!

Yesterday afternoon, Matt and his friend Lindsay came to visit, and we headed out to see the TransSiberian Orchestra. The concert itself was awesome (as always), and we had a great time. Unfortunately, the ride home was awful. It started sleeting while we were in the concert, so the roads were pretty slick. We encountered our first accident on the onramp as we were trying to get on the highway (at 11:30 p.m.). Fortunately the police quickly got ramps set up, and we were (slowly) on our way.

Not so fortunately, we encountered a terrible mess about 30 minutes into our drive home. We could see that a semi was turned perpindicular to the road about a half mile where we were...and traffic was at a complete standstill. We went less than .2 miles in an hour, and we were really, really glad we didn't get another soda for the ride home. After about 90 minutes (so it's nearing 1:30 a.m. at this point), the right lane finally started creeping forward. The accident itself was horrendous (a car slid under a semi), so we were very glad to be safe and sound. We finally got home about 2:30 a.m., and instantly fell asleep. Needless to say, we've been dragging today!

Kim's dad came over for dinner tonight, and we sampled a wide variety of holiday treats. Hopefully there are enough left we can still take goody bags to our neighbors :)

Current gas price: $1.54/gallon.