Yabba Dabba Dooooooo...
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntbijouI want to thank everyone for wishing the Husbandly One and I a happy anniversary! And I wish to thank kathrynthegr8 for the snowman cookie!! Hee!!
The kids and THO are on Christmas break, which means we've been busy, busy, busy pretty much since Saturday! We've mostly finished up Christmas shopping (most of our shopping for the kids was done online) and have bought and assembled a new shelving unit for the living room that will help corral the DVD's and games that were threatening to take over the entire house. Not to mention make us feel a little bit more like grownups and not so much like college students only pretending to be grownups!
Now we just need to replace the aging, wheezing, nearly dying refrigerator, and we'll be good!
That and catch up on sleep.
I'm enjoying having THO home, and it's going to be difficult when he goes back to work. Of course, it's throwing me off my schedule, but you know what? I don't mind it one bit. Because I really like having him around. It's like having my own personal man-candy wandering around the house... wait a minute... he is my own personal man-candy...
*dies laughing*
Okay, now y'all know exactly where my mind is, don't you?
We made the decision not to try to drive in to Houston on Christmas day this year. As much as I love my mom and would like to see my family, the truth is we've gotten used to having our own tradition of watching the kids open their presents and having a sort of lazy day at home, thanks to freezes and weather that made driving not so great an option. And you know, we're always so sleep deprived on Christmas day, thanks to Santa's elves waking us up at ungodly hours of the night to tell us Santa hit a whiteout in Omaha, or NORAD decided to scramble fighters because they thought Santa's sleigh was a bogey coming in to bomb New York and thus threw him off his schedule. So the elves wake us up, because Santa's dropping the presents off and WE have to set them up, because he has to hit New Mexico before 3:30 a.m. or he'll be late... yeah, I hate that.
Seems like that's been happening more and more often, lately.
Those elves have damn hard, knobby fingers, too. And they leave wet spots in the carpet from the melting snow. Damn it.
Anyhow, we're pretty sleep deprived, between that and the kids getting us up way before we're ready to get up, and making the three hour drive into Houston, staying for two or three, then the three hour drive back just... doesn't look so attractive, know what I mean?
We'll go sometime next week. I hope.
*sigh*
In the meantime, we have our own thing, and... I'm pretty darn okay with it. Just so long as we get the tree up between now and Christmas!
Don't. Even. Ask.
So, today we have a bit more shopping to do, and then we're done! And I need to do a bit of wrapping, and figure out what to get the Tall Blonde as thanks for taking me out for a girl's afternoon out and getting my hair cut as my Christmas present from HER, and... man, I am so stumped!!
Chocolate. Can't go wrong with chocolate, right? Lots and lots.
I'll figure it out. Hopefully sometime BEFORE Christmas. Which is... in two days.
*head-desk*
Okay, time for me to get up and get busy! Happy Holidays to you all if I don't get to post again!
kathrynthegr8 for the snowman cookie!! Hee!!The kids and THO are on Christmas break, which means we've been busy, busy, busy pretty much since Saturday! We've mostly finished up Christmas shopping (most of our shopping for the kids was done online) and have bought and assembled a new shelving unit for the living room that will help corral the DVD's and games that were threatening to take over the entire house. Not to mention make us feel a little bit more like grownups and not so much like college students only pretending to be grownups!
Now we just need to replace the aging, wheezing, nearly dying refrigerator, and we'll be good!
That and catch up on sleep.
I'm enjoying having THO home, and it's going to be difficult when he goes back to work. Of course, it's throwing me off my schedule, but you know what? I don't mind it one bit. Because I really like having him around. It's like having my own personal man-candy wandering around the house... wait a minute... he is my own personal man-candy...
*dies laughing*
Okay, now y'all know exactly where my mind is, don't you?
We made the decision not to try to drive in to Houston on Christmas day this year. As much as I love my mom and would like to see my family, the truth is we've gotten used to having our own tradition of watching the kids open their presents and having a sort of lazy day at home, thanks to freezes and weather that made driving not so great an option. And you know, we're always so sleep deprived on Christmas day, thanks to Santa's elves waking us up at ungodly hours of the night to tell us Santa hit a whiteout in Omaha, or NORAD decided to scramble fighters because they thought Santa's sleigh was a bogey coming in to bomb New York and thus threw him off his schedule. So the elves wake us up, because Santa's dropping the presents off and WE have to set them up, because he has to hit New Mexico before 3:30 a.m. or he'll be late... yeah, I hate that.
Seems like that's been happening more and more often, lately.
Those elves have damn hard, knobby fingers, too. And they leave wet spots in the carpet from the melting snow. Damn it.
Anyhow, we're pretty sleep deprived, between that and the kids getting us up way before we're ready to get up, and making the three hour drive into Houston, staying for two or three, then the three hour drive back just... doesn't look so attractive, know what I mean?
We'll go sometime next week. I hope.
*sigh*
In the meantime, we have our own thing, and... I'm pretty darn okay with it. Just so long as we get the tree up between now and Christmas!
Don't. Even. Ask.
So, today we have a bit more shopping to do, and then we're done! And I need to do a bit of wrapping, and figure out what to get the Tall Blonde as thanks for taking me out for a girl's afternoon out and getting my hair cut as my Christmas present from HER, and... man, I am so stumped!!
Chocolate. Can't go wrong with chocolate, right? Lots and lots.
I'll figure it out. Hopefully sometime BEFORE Christmas. Which is... in two days.
*head-desk*
Okay, time for me to get up and get busy! Happy Holidays to you all if I don't get to post again!
