Christmas is coming....

There's a bit of drama with my in-laws about gifts this year. They want to make it a no-gift-card rule, but there is no way we're gonna pack a dozen gifts in our luggage and take it on the plane with us unless they can all fit in an envelope... a gift-card-size envelope. I think they'll see it our way, especially if we threaten to get everyone just Magic the Gathering cards or something. Do they play Magic? Hells no. Now that would be hee-lair-ee-yus.

Thanksgiving is coming too. We gotta work again this year, but they always feed us. A co-worker invited us to her house to do a pre-Thanksgiving-Thanksgiving, though not with turkey but with her famous fajitas. It's kinda nice, though. We won't be alone for the holidays! *cry* *sniff*

Not much more news on the "home-front." (har dee har har) But we're looking at maps and listings to see where we would like to live and how much we really want to spend. Whateley's talking about possibly even Leander... which is like living in San Bernardino and commuting to Orange County. It's doable... but land's so plentiful and cheap here, I don't see why we'd have to. The freeways are all messed up though. The I-35 and the 183 are roughly perpendicular (though they point north and then northwest respectively), but there's no freeway connecting the two beyond the point where they intersect in Austin. So the farther we go up either freeway, the cheaper houses get... but then the two suburbs end up far apart from each other, cuz you can't go from one to the other without going back south to Austin.

Lame.