Christmas 2006 has been amazing.

I got quite the selection of gifts from Tim and his family – the family gifts we took pictures of on my Flickr gallery. Why we neglected to take photos of our own gift opening, I have no idea.

A few of my gifts I got a couple of weeks ago, because Tim wanted me to have them early. That was the Saitek keyboard (it lights up blue, red or purple!!) and March of the Penguins (because I said I wanted to find it on pay-per-view and he already had it wrapped under the tree).

I got a lot of awesome gifts – but the one that truly gobsmacked me was the Product Red iPod Nano Tim got me.

I literally sat there with my mouth agape looking at it.

Back around a month ago, I had to devise a list of Christmas gifts for his family to choose from.

So I sat down and wrote down everything large and small I could think of. Most of it was books, but I had that Nano on there too. I never thought in a million years that I would receive that as a gift, however. But I love it. He also got me the Nike+ thing and a cute little pocket that velcros to your shoes in lieu of getting the specific shoes to use it. It works pretty well.

I just hope my foot heals up soon so I can get back to running on a more regular basis.

I had tendonitis in my right foot a few years back and I re-aggravated the injury a few weeks ago. So not much running lately.

Anyway, Tim and I had two amazing days together where we had to do nothing but spend it with the other.  It was quite nice.

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I spent the past few days configuring the WordPress installs for the new project and fighting with the PHP code for the syndication feed we needed to use.

After getting totally frustrated with the confusing PHP code, I took a break and upgraded my own WP install from 1.5 to 2.0. Since my old theme didn’t jive exactly with the new install, I took a new theme and tweaked it. I then went downstairs and played Final Fantasy 12 for about an hour.

The funny thing is that when I went back to the coding, it just all made sense and I got it working in around 5 minutes. Now all we need to do is polish the rough stone that is the site, develop the different themes (and content!) and we’re in business! I can’t wait to go live!!