Merry Christmas, and Training the Battery...

It has been a wonderful Christmas. It was so much fun to see my niece and nephew (ages 3 and 1) with their gifts. Iris got really excited over a lot of her gifts and would run over to show me different things that she opened up, and even had me help her open one or two of them. Jimmy warmed up to his gifts fairly quickly, but then started focusing on a one-handed monkey with a maraca that does back flips - something that he's seen multiple times before. But they were both adorable and very cute to watch.

Some extended family came by and it was fun to see all of them. I went down and exercised with Jen for 15 minutes. She was on the stationary bike and I was on the elliptical. It wasn't a ton of exercising, but I think we both felt better after all the food that had previously been consumed.

The day is still not over. Mom is on the phone with Adam, Harper is on the phone with Bethany, and Dad, Graydon and I are waiting (all of us on our laptops) for the two of them to get off the phone so we can start a Christmas-gift movie - Next. Never seen it. I'm excited.

Again, it's been a great day. Tons of snow - a great white Christmas, and a warm fire. I've loved every second of it.

I hope you all had an equally wonderful Christmas. Merry, Merry Christmas!!!

Now for the Battery -

All right. I've continued following the drain-the-battery-completely-before-you-charge-it-again instructions. It may be working. It has been unplugged for over 12 hours, and I've only lost one bar of power. Now, to a lot of you, that may sound fast. If you'd been the owner of this phone, however, you would find reason to rejoice in the loss of only one bar - such as I have done. I had an almost ten minute phone call ('sup, Bess) and have received and sent a couple of texts to people. So, not a ton of use, but it hasn't just been sitting there either.

Anyway, I consider that good news. I actually did go to a Verizon store yesterday to just get a new phone but it was an independently owned store and they couldn't do it for me there. I decided that with Christmas and crazy day-after Christmas stuff, the earliest I would get there is Saturday. With things changing this way, I may wait for a bit longer before I go (if I go). If things keep looking up, then yay for that!