horay for 2011

so i saw that many of the blogs i follow had been recently updated and, although i dont have much to say and have absolutely no pictures to post, i thought i'd go ahead and give it a whirl anyway.
the last couple of weeks have been pretty awesome.  i can't believe christmas has come and gone already, but it sure has.  going into the holidays, i was pretty miserable and funky with the deployment looming over us, but as that was taken away from us at the last second, charles and i were both left with a feeling of extreme disorientation and did a bit of frantic scrambling to resurrect some christmas spirit afterall.  he spent the week of christmas with his family, who did an AWESOME job of cheering him up.  seriously, they came through for him better than i could have ever imagined.  when i finally joined him back home, i found him happy and calm, more so than i've seen him in a long time.  with that attitude, we were able to plow through the usual christmas weekend events with relative peace and truely had a wonderful time. 
out new year celebration was pretty low key.  we had a few friends over for snacks and they all had returned home by 11:30 or so, leaving us to sit on the couch in the dark snuggled under a blanket with the dog to watch the ball drop on tv together.  it was perfect.  i still can't believe how my attitude towards this year has changed so much in the last few weeks, but WOW.  it's going to be a great year, one of the best.  i just know it!
charles is still off work and his ear surgery will take place this wednesday.  he is a bit nervous, as there are a number of scary complications possible.  plus, we don't really know what it will be like afterwards.  we're expecting vertigo and almost complete hearing loss in his right ear for the next 6 months.  admittedly, the ear surgery is more pressing on an immediate level, he has also been reminded a time or two that he should use this time off work to persue medical assistance in the fertility department also.  he assures me that once his surgery is done, he will work on that, but right now he only wants to worry about one at a time.  of course that's completely fair, i'm just antsy.
he started work on the guest room downstairs.  he scraped the popcorn off the ceiling and plans to seal it today.  with any luck, we could be painting within a couple of weeks!  i think the possibility of a baby this year has lit a fire under his butt with the home renovations.  we can't renovate the designated nursery room until we renovate the guest room so that we have a place to put the crap that currently lives in the nursery room. 
i'm still really struggling with my laziness, and especially after how much candy and party food and just JUNKola i have eaten in the last couple of weeks, i am feeling really fat and sluggish.  i had intended to somewhat clear out the crap room with my elliptical machine in it this weekend, but most of that is christmas stuff and afgans and sewing stuff from grandma kelly's house.  i dont know where to put  a lot of it.  i think i need to do a major house purge. 
it has just occurred to me that i have typed a bit of a novel with absolutely no point other than updating a couple people on the lameness that is my life.  it's almost like a one-sided conversation!  bla/