We are actually going on our first cruise, the first week in January, down Mexico way out of California. We are going down a couple of days early and hitting DL as hard as we can.

This will be the first trip EVER without kids! I am so excited I can't stand it!
You are right, I had months to get the airline reservations in place and I kept putting it off, thinking the price would go down. But, all normal reason goes out the window when you fly any time around a holiday...duh!! I have been watching (in horror) as the airline rates kept going up and up and up these past few weeks! DUH again!
DH left this morning to drive over to Helena and then down to Bozeman. We are supposed to have a storm moving in from the west tomorrow. The high was about 13 degrees today with a light snow all day long. And, of course, as it always happens when DH is on the other side of the state, something "went wrong" today...but I don't want to talk about it.

I am not clear if the storm will be working its way as far as Bozeman or not. I will have to catch the weather tonight, on the news, and see what they are predicting.
What is wrong with that neighbor to let a man in street clothes walk up an icy driveway in that temperature!?

I am not the outdoorsy type. I purposely freeze up in a few seconds (in winter) just to spite the rest of my family

There's me and 3 guys in this house....I have to get some attention somehow!

Sounds like you guys need to stock a couple of down comforters in that house up on the icy hill.
I spoke to DH and he and DS were just going in to watch some Brad Pitt movie at the theater down there. We should have gotten our DHs together...my DH loves playing with fire so he would have been helpful with the fireplace. Hmmm...maybe I shouldn't make that common knowledge.
Why do we always feel guilty when we get to do something fun while the guys are out of town?
I DO understand your pain! I feel bad posting that we are going on a cruise, now, but it took me YEARS to talk DH into trying it and he is justifying it that we are going for our 20th anniversary....which was last April!

Arizona in February sounds great!!