Holiday summarizing
Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about...
O.K. enough of that. so Christmas happened, it wasn't great but it wasn't horrible either. I got good stuff. new sheets, a new table lamp and an ott lite with a magnifier for painting miniatures and the like. I wish it came with some motivation but alas...
The best part of christmas was the fact we didn't have to run willy nilly from one family gathering to the next.Ususally we spend the eve w/ both sides of the family who unfortunately choose to schedule their merry making at the same time.
This year since Dad had to work we skipped his side. This no doubt caused some hard feelings but frak them they can take it. We risked life and limb for years getting from one place to the other since invariably ol'mom nature whistles up a blizzard on the evening of the 24th.
New years was almost non existant. i had invitations to two different friends but chose to stay home and watch the 4 disaster movies i got from netflix instead. My friend Tom came over for a little while and we ate pizza and drank PBR while watching criminal minds.
Then I called my friend Kelly, who is technically still married to my friend James even though he left her to go shack up with some girl in Jackson and get her pregnant. That is a whole different story, but suffice it to say she called because he was trying to talk her into getting back together, mainly because girl #2 had just thrown him out, although she did let him back.
Anyway we talked for a while them emailed for a while and then it was midnight and I watched the sad remains of Dick clark and went to be after consuming a whole bottle of really cheap sparkling wine (andre strawberry fresa, it was dreadful but they had no cold duck which is my traditional poison of choice.)
On New years day I had dinner at my aunt's house and we watched Michigan state loose and penn state get whomped and i dozed off on her couch and then went home. all in all i would pronounce the holidays satisfactory, Especailly since by burning a few vaction days i have only had to work 5 out of the last 14 days. So, in closing, a belated happy hollidays to all.
O.K. enough of that. so Christmas happened, it wasn't great but it wasn't horrible either. I got good stuff. new sheets, a new table lamp and an ott lite with a magnifier for painting miniatures and the like. I wish it came with some motivation but alas...
The best part of christmas was the fact we didn't have to run willy nilly from one family gathering to the next.Ususally we spend the eve w/ both sides of the family who unfortunately choose to schedule their merry making at the same time.
This year since Dad had to work we skipped his side. This no doubt caused some hard feelings but frak them they can take it. We risked life and limb for years getting from one place to the other since invariably ol'mom nature whistles up a blizzard on the evening of the 24th.
New years was almost non existant. i had invitations to two different friends but chose to stay home and watch the 4 disaster movies i got from netflix instead. My friend Tom came over for a little while and we ate pizza and drank PBR while watching criminal minds.
Then I called my friend Kelly, who is technically still married to my friend James even though he left her to go shack up with some girl in Jackson and get her pregnant. That is a whole different story, but suffice it to say she called because he was trying to talk her into getting back together, mainly because girl #2 had just thrown him out, although she did let him back.
Anyway we talked for a while them emailed for a while and then it was midnight and I watched the sad remains of Dick clark and went to be after consuming a whole bottle of really cheap sparkling wine (andre strawberry fresa, it was dreadful but they had no cold duck which is my traditional poison of choice.)
On New years day I had dinner at my aunt's house and we watched Michigan state loose and penn state get whomped and i dozed off on her couch and then went home. all in all i would pronounce the holidays satisfactory, Especailly since by burning a few vaction days i have only had to work 5 out of the last 14 days. So, in closing, a belated happy hollidays to all.