It's about time.

I HAVE to take down the Christmas tree today. It's waaaaay overdue, but I just haven't been able to get up the energy to do it. Also, it's serving as storage at the moment. We got a TON of presents for our engagement party in New York, and they're all sitting under the tree. Once the tree is gone, it's no longer appropriate to have everything sitting on the floor. So taking down the tree means also finding somewhere to put all the amazing presents we got. The big problem is that most of them are kitchen electric stuff - rice cooker, crock pot, waffle iron, blender, food processor, etc... and there's simply not enough cabinet space to put all of the stuff away right now. So it's going to take some major rearranging which is just annoying. But the presents are excellent!

Yesterday was Ian's birthday, and I got him these awesome shoes. They're North Face, and they're amphibious. When we go on our honeymoon, we'll be doing lots of outdoorsy stuff like waterfall rappelling and such, so we'll need some shoes made for that sort of thing. I want some too!

We also went out to dinner at Kobe in Midtown... it was pretty good! Definitely nice and new and shiny and all that, but I think I still prefer Hokkaido. The grill next to us was a group of 20-something girls all in ridiculous outfits and out for one of their birthdays. They had lots of saki shots and were definitely amusing.

We're headed to Birmingham today to look at Nissans... Ian wants to drive an Xterra and I'd like to look at the Altima Coupes. Hopefully we'll have some luck!

Yesterday, Ian noticed that our stupid neighbors' pit bull was starting to break through the fence. If you don't remember the story, click here. If that dog was able to knock out one of the slats in the fence, she would come through and kill our dogs. We nailed plywood to our side of the fence months ago, but she's breaking through that part too. So Ian called Animal Control yesterday and they came out and talked to Ian and the stupid neighbor to see what was going on. And now they have an extra layer of fence on their side! It's about damn time they did something to help with the situation. Up to this, we had tried several things to keep HER stupid dog on their side of the fence, and all they do is beat the crap out of the dog. So hopefully the new fence looks really awful on their side and they have to look at it, just as we've had to deal with the plywood. On that note, since they have extra fence now, maybe we'll take down the plywood so ours will look nice again. We win!

Alright, I'm going to finish watching the new episode of Grey's then take down the tree. Wish me luck!