2 Days in the Valley

I spent 2 days alone with Ender this weekend.  It was bitter cold one day, and then we had 12" of snow the next.  On the first day it was too cold to leave the house except to run to the car.  On the second day we almost couldn't leave the house.  We managed to make it to the movie theater two days in a row and watched Frozen on Saturday and The Lego Movie on Sunday.  Frozen was good, but it could have been great if they'd just left out the song and dance numbers.  The Lego Movie was just plain fantastic.  I strongly recommend it.  We spent almost all of the rest of our time making things with Legos.

I'm feeling a bit isolated recently.  I don't really get out much and I don't really have any close friends to do much of anything with.  Everything that I want to do seems to be scheduled specifically to coincide with every single thing that my wife has scheduled for several months in advance.  Hockey on Monday?  Wife has a poetry group.  Hockey on Thursday?  Wife has a book club.  Hockey on Sunday?  Wife has weekend away / some writing workshop / some random thing that has her out of town until just after I need to leave to get to hockey on time.  Beer and Science Night?  There's always something that keeps me from going.  It's getting really frustrating.