A green Christmas and a delayed Blizzard

My Christmas was a very busy and definately unforgetable time. We had family reunions twice with at least 25 people. And there were handing outs of christmas gifts 3 times and one is still to come at my birthday tomorrow. We unfortunately didn´t have a white Christmas, but a pretty decent winter storm with a lot of snow and Blizzards in some parts of Michigan started on the dot afternoon of 26th. We saw at least five cars off the free way, because of skidding, this day. One of the problems is that almost nobody changes his tires to winter tires. Either it doesn´t worth it or someone doesn´t care about it. My activities besides unwrapping presents and eating cookies were very dominated by hellweek practices from the swimming season. Start at 8.30 and ending 4 hours later with a lot exhaustion every day is not the ideal holiday, one can imagine, but you see your friends and you get in shape for the following two months of practices and meets. Here in the public mind is the terrible shooting in New Town, Connecticut, the following debate about gun control and the rapidly approaching fiscal cliff. The news about the fiscal cliff are really confusing and although a lot of people are talking about it, I couldn´t figure it out completely, yet. Right now it is Bowl weeks in the football season, with almost one or two bowl games every day. There are about 30 different Bowls and they have weird names such as Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl or Rose Bowl. The most interesting Bowl game is the College Football Association Championship game with undefeated number one Notre Dame and number two Alabama. A lot of great football and a hard competition are expected . Tomorrow I´m gonna enjoy my birthday with family and friends, but first the obligatory Saturday practice. I wish everybody a Happy New Year and some pictures will be hopefully uploaded in the next week.