Winter Break, part 1: visiting Mom

Since my winter vacation breaks down nicely into segments I am going to blog about each part individually.  The first part was going down to my mother's after getting my paper submission in.

Getting there was no big thing, although LAX still sucks.  Mom's cell phone battery is shot and she didn't have her car charger on her, so that made the pick-up a little difficult.  Luckily I stick out in a crowd so Mom spotted me.

After the pick-up I had my requisite late-night In-N-Out meal.  Good as always.  =)

The next day I started what would be the trend for the next nine days (i.e., each of the full days I was there); waking up at about 10:00 and helping my mother in the garage and house in preparations of moving in March until 22:00 at night.  I did manage to fit in time to check my email and the news, along with helping high schoolers participating in GHOP. But otherwise I didn't really get around to any of the things I wanted to get done for myself.

I did get to see my aunt and one of my cousins.  I also saw some old high school friends.  Had dinner at my mom's old friend's house.  But a good portion of the time was just spent tossing stuff into the trash bin (which we filled two of) or putting stuff into lock-top bins.

Not always the most entertaining, but it helped my mother out immensely.  Plus we managed not to kill each other which is good.  =)