Jonas got his car back today, and it looks PERFECT. I only got to see it in the dark, so I'll have to take a closer look during daytime, but it looks like they did a great job. You would hardly know any work was done at all on it! He is super-thrilled to have it back, of course. The rental was a Dodge Neon which, despite being a new car, was awfully clunky to drive. It even sounded clunky when accelerating -- like it was struggling. I guess that's why they're relatively inexpensive.

He surprised me by showing up at the library about 15 minutes before close (9:00) and starting my car so that it would be toasty when it was time for me to leave. I followed him home and he picked up some Culver's while I stopped to get gas and clean my windshield. My wiper fluid dispenser leaks like a sieve, so I pretty much have no cleaning function with my wipers. Every few days, especially with the messy winter we've had so far, I have to pop into a gas station and clean them manually. We met at home and had dinner while watching some Just Shoot Me reruns. Why did they cancel that show, anyway? I thought it was great.

Tomorrow night I need to head straight home at 5:00 and do some rapid tidying up before Liz arrives at 6:00 to get the official New House Tour. This is the first time I'll have seen Liz in at least a year since I missed her last time she was up from Texas. She just got a new job, too. So once she sees the house we'll head back to Eden Prairie to meet up with Heidi and Steve, and Jonas when he arrives, for dinner (I think at Hops). After that, if we can get a lane among all the leaguers, we'll do some bowling. It should be a fun time! Jonas actually went bowling yesterday with his boss and co-workers and got a 156, his new best! I'm still at 148.

Wednesday should be nice and quiet. Even though it's Christmas Eve, it turned out that we have no plans with anyone. It will be lovely to just be cozy with ourselves. Maybe we'll do a cheese, olives and wine night? As long as we don't make it too expensive an evening -- some of those cheeses are really expensive!! We bought a fol epi last time that was at least $12 for what amounted to only about one cup of cheese. It was good, though! I wouldn't mind doing an assortment of what have been our favorites so far. I know my #1 would be a big, glistening hunk of Asiago. *drool* OK, now I'm just making myself hungry.