I woke up this morning and the weather guy said there is a chance of snow on Friday. Egads! The Christmas Tree Cutting Party is on Saturday, so I arranged to take Friday off so I can get to the ranch before things get nasty weather wise. It's supposed to be a low of 26 at the ranch on Friday night. Apparently, this weather thing will be over on ( Read more... )

The best holiday special episode in the history of holiday special episodes.
This is the full 20something minutes. Enjoy.

There's been drama this year regarding Thanksgiving. It started a few weeks ago, when my dad mentioned that my mom was thinking about doing a funky Southwestern style turkey involving a 30 cloves of garlic, 6 pasilla chiles ( Read more... )

Today is an odd sort of anniversary for me ( Read more... )

I'm terribly excited to be going to the ranch this weekend. Not for any particular reason other than my entire family (sans the outpost in California) will be there. It's beautiful there right now: all the flowers are in bloom, the calves are beginning to get a little independent from their mamas, and the grass is green. The lakes are a little ( Read more... )

This will be the first year that I've ever been with my sweetheart on Valentine's day. Every other single Valentine's day I've ever gone through, I've been by myself, even if I was dating someone. Last year, Graham was working in Dallas for part of February ( Read more... )

closest I could come to Happy New Year!

And I have decided that this will be an excellent year. I'm a Taurus born in the Year of the Ox. Surely, I'm doublely blessed, astrologically speaking.

I'm ready, I think. I have to stop a few more places for some smaller gifts, but otherwise, I'm good ( Read more... )

I *heart* the Messiah.

We went ice skating last night at Discovery Green. My friend Buttery and I realized that people are going to start taking off for the holiday in the next few days, and last night would be our last chance to do something as a group. So we rounded up the troops, got ourselves organized, and about 17 of us donned ice skates and went around in ( Read more... )

I'm horrible at telling people what I want for Christmas. My mother just called and told me that I'm her problem child. She mentally went through every room in the house and realized that I have pretty much everything I need, and those things that I don't have, I more or less need to get for myself. Graham has similarly interrogated me over the ( Read more... )