So I'm sitting in Cafe Primo, a lovely coffeehouse with Wi-Fi where Jon and I usually spend an afternoon every week or so. We JUST finished our Christmas shopping at the farmer's market. Our tree (a baby razor palm that Jon and David dug up and put in a bucket and then plopped on the bench in our front window) in laden with ornaments (okay, like 5 ornaments... but it really can't hold any more!) and sitting above a pile of presents. I'm madly crocheting at every free moment so that our new stockings will be ready for Santa come Christmas Eve! Not being home for Christmas is certainly a bit sad, but I'm so excited about spending my First Christmas with Jon. We've got lots of plans already, like homemade cinnamon buns for breakfast and seeing that Sherlock Holmes movie, so I doubt I'll have much time to miss Peter's complaining about his presents or Hester's disappointment that everyone is still wearing their pajamas at dinner.
Work is both good and bad... our immediate superior is still an ass, but his dad can be a sweetheart. He hosted a staff Christmas party last week in which we stuffed ourselves full of processed cheese and sasuages from the Swiss Colony (this is the same guy who buys those 3-hour fireplace logs from Walmart. We live on a farm! We are surrounded by 30 acres of trees!!!) Yesterday I spent the whole morning transplanting Silverado Swiss Chard seedlings into the garden and seeding a big fat row full of French Breakfast Radishes. In the afternoon Jon and I prepared and seeded two beds of Scarlet Nantes Carrots and spent some good quality time with the chickens. (We haven't been letting the hens out of the coop during the day ever since the rooster got killed by a coyote--he's the one who keeps them together and leads them back to the coop. So we let them out to stretch their legs and eat all the bugs they want for a few hours every few days while we keep an eye on them and play with the chicks.) So, I don't know if you guys can tell, but that's a GREAT day of work. Imagine finishing a paper you've been working on for 3 weeks and getting a whole bunch of short, easy assignments out of the way. AND knowing that you've done a really good job on all of it. That's what yesterday was like.
Also, I've decided what I'm doing with my life. For the next 8 months or so. Jon and I are going to leave here in April, probably, and take our time driving back to Wisconsin. He's trying to get a job at Angelic Organics, and I'm applying to the second year of the intensive summer Arabic program at Beloit College. I'll live with my parents for the summer (hopefully he'll only be 20 minutes away at the farm) and we'll look for jobs and apartments in Chicago so that as soon as my class is done and his farming is done, we can move to the Big City! So this is all very exciting. For me.
Well, I wish I could see each and every one of you this Christmas, but an update with lots of pictures will have to suffice. That's an order! (Or at least a Christmas Wish...) Merry Christmas!
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