Rob’s gift from me this year was a new computer.

What’s that you say? Louise how can you just up and purchase a new computer? Well, that’s kind of the thing – I didn’t. Well, I did, but not really. Work this year offered teachers the chance to purchase new home computers, and they’d pay for it, and take a certain amount off our paychecks each month. So, I’ll be losing $20/paycheck (I think?) for the next 1000 years, but we have a computer that actually works and doesn’t bluescreen every four seconds. It’s also got um… more memory? and a fancy screen? Rob has been messing with it like crazy for the past few days – first installing Linux, then Windows, then Apple stuff. And the computer takes it all. I don’t know why that’s so exciting to him (my only Apple memory is when my sister had this Commodore 64 thing and the screen was our TV and she had a cassette tape drive thing. I could make the computer write “Louise is awesome!” all over the screen. That is what I know about Apple products), but it is. I feel kind of bad because aside from that (which he knew he was getting), I got him absolutely nothing – so he didn’t really have any surprises on Christmas morning. But at the same time… yeah, I think he didn’t mind having no surprises.