Below is James' take on the New Year so far:
the story:
christmas went well, jessi was in a wedding, then we flew to marseilles, france for new years with hugo & daphne and the belgian crew. after celebrating midnight in the new year, jessi got a phone call that her 108 year old grandmother had passed away. crying and drunk we lasted until about 4:30 inthe morning. i did not sleep, woke her up at 5:30 AM, booked tickets at 6:15AM and was on a plane at 8 am to Paris to come back to the US - we had only been in france 3 days from the US... after arriving in ohio we went to her parent's house. since we cleared out our entire house and put everything in the garage, i had to drive 3 hours south to our house so i could find a suit (since we had not yet been home in europe). while there i stopped by and spent the night with my grandfather, who then passed away in the middle of the night while i was with him...devastated, i then left the next morning to go back to jessi and the viewing. her grandmother was buried on my birthday and then we raced back down to my grandfather's viewing and then burial, at which i spoke and sang (no joking please). my sister then decided to tell the family that she was pregnant....then we just flew back here to Amsterdam and arrived yesterday (tuesday)....movers are coming tomorrow and friday. we fly back to lexington on the 17th (thursday) and load up stuff and drive to atlanta on the 21st. we close on the 22nd and then i am officially unemployed and will probably crash for the year......i think 2008 has been a cruel joke...a false-start and i would gladly accept a do-over. absent that, fast-forwarding the next 10 days would be great too....
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