christmas day itself was excellent - i made a huge pot of split pea soup for dinner (great grandma's recipie), guests showed up to help eat it, then we went to see sweeney todd (i really enjoyed it - although i do understand j's complaints about the changes i thought they did a good job with it)
i have a very long weekend coming up filled with (i hope) good friends, dancing, delicious food, and an excellent new years eve (and almost no work - burning the leftover leave is a good thing)
i'm still recovering and trying to get back to normal, but the visit wasn't bad - some of it was awesome and some was pretty awful, but overall it wasn't as difficult as i expected it to be...
the plane trip to bwi was abysmal, and my luggage didn't arrive til the next night about 7pm, but the house was surprisingly clean and uncluttered (when i was there it was a constant battle to keep things neat and i'm pleased to see that's changed),
highlights included thanksgiving dinner at sean t.i.b.'s; my first weekend home - people came over to hang out at the manor with us friday (including

the bad included - waaaayyy too much travel (pa, nc, nj/ny, pa again); difficult discussions with