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Now that it's become impossible to sleep due to the exceedingly hyper and loud Markez, punctuated by the equally hyper but not quite so loud Rafiq, I thought I might as well make a short post. I usually do all right in the morning, but having been up quite late after getting up too early on Christmas has me wanting to rent a motel room just to get some sleep.
Christmas was good. It was very good, even. As usual, it was loud and chaotic, but that's fine. It makes it seem more real then. Rafiq even handled it quite well, which pleases me greatly. He got through most of the day around everyone without having any problems. He did bow out before anyone else, but it was still a great deal of time with the crowd. I think that's a very good sign.
The day ended up getting very wild as a huge snowball fight broke out. Just about anyone who went outside got hammered, so it was a very risky venture. Only a small handful of people were exempt. I was luckily one of those because of my knee, which is more than I can say for Topaz, much to the chagrin of some. I'm sure the neighborhood was very amused by all of the antics. I won't go into detail about any of it since I'm sure one or two others would like to. I will say that it was fun to watch, at least.
I got the enjoyable luck to be the recipient of a stocking from Bullshit. He drew my name back when we did it randomly, so I was very careful about digging into it. You never know what he might do. It was interesting, to say the least. I'm sure it could have been a lot worse. I've seen past stockings given by some of these people, so I know that to be true. Some you just want to avoid drawing your name.
I suppose I'll go now and have some breakfast. If I'm lucky, the kids will go play in the snow for awhile later so I can catch a nap. It's tough sometimes being the only one in the family to not be very affected by sugar and caffeine.
I hope you all had a happy Christmas.
Christmas was good. It was very good, even. As usual, it was loud and chaotic, but that's fine. It makes it seem more real then. Rafiq even handled it quite well, which pleases me greatly. He got through most of the day around everyone without having any problems. He did bow out before anyone else, but it was still a great deal of time with the crowd. I think that's a very good sign.
The day ended up getting very wild as a huge snowball fight broke out. Just about anyone who went outside got hammered, so it was a very risky venture. Only a small handful of people were exempt. I was luckily one of those because of my knee, which is more than I can say for Topaz, much to the chagrin of some. I'm sure the neighborhood was very amused by all of the antics. I won't go into detail about any of it since I'm sure one or two others would like to. I will say that it was fun to watch, at least.
I got the enjoyable luck to be the recipient of a stocking from Bullshit. He drew my name back when we did it randomly, so I was very careful about digging into it. You never know what he might do. It was interesting, to say the least. I'm sure it could have been a lot worse. I've seen past stockings given by some of these people, so I know that to be true. Some you just want to avoid drawing your name.
I suppose I'll go now and have some breakfast. If I'm lucky, the kids will go play in the snow for awhile later so I can catch a nap. It's tough sometimes being the only one in the family to not be very affected by sugar and caffeine.
I hope you all had a happy Christmas.