My Happy Holidays
So the three people who actually visit my little website here have been on me to post something to move the picture of my broken tooth off the front page and I have been remiss in my duties. Once again, the reasons I started a blog (peer pressure and "in-group" thinking) rear their ugly heads. But a few interesting things have happened since November 18th so I thought I'd go ahead and post them.
First, Thanksgiving...
I've always liked Thanksgiving much more than Christmas. I don't really know why. It just feels like there is less pressure on Thanksgiving... a bit more genuine. Unfortunately it's sort of turned into a Christmas prequel of late in this country. Maybe something like
XMAS: The Beginning...
a Jerry Bruckheimer production.
Starring Dolph Lundgren and Tracy Ullman
I can picture it now.
We had TG dinner at our house this year because of a gig here in town that same weekend that made driving 3 and a half hours seem less appealing. The original plan was to go to Kendra's family's place somewhere in town but we decided to skip that and just have some friends and Kendra's mom over here. It was good. The turkey turned out really well and the fixin's were great. Kendra and her mom did an excellent job. Neal and his lady friend also brought some delicious day old cookies that were quite amazing.
After dinner I jokingly suggested that we turn the lights off and spend the rest of the evening gathered around my Parker Brothers Ouija Board (I couldn't tell you why). This idea was rejected for the opposite reason I imagined. Apparently a lot of people I know, and some I don't, seem to believe that spirits not only exist (they don't) but contacting them is possible (it's not), and is also a really bad idea. And apparently the good people over at Parker Brothers seem to have created a device to bridge the gap between the real and "spirit world." Pretty sweet huh? And I bought the thing at the mall for only $14.99. Killer deal.
Then San Francisco...
A couple of weeks after that we took a 4 day trip down to San Francisco to visit Starla, a good friend of Kendra's. It was a blast. We drove down to Monterey Bay and went to the awesome aquarium there, ate some really good Mexican food in the Mission District, rode bikes to the Embarcadero and went ice skating, hung out for a short time at Twin Peaks and the Haight, and just generally had a really good time.
And Lastly, Christmas...
Then came the long 3 week wait until Christmas. It was pretty standard. Driving 3 and a half hours to visit family, shopping at the last minute, shoving various sweets and poultry into my face until I almost felt sick... about par for the course.
Presents of note include DVDs of the 1980 PBS series Cosmos, Marty's last bottle of his home brewed Imperial Stout, and a telescope that allows me to spy on people who aren't even my neighbors. Unfortunately they're upside down as I look at them but I like to do my spying hanging from the ceiling anyways.
Tonight is Geoff and Julie's new years party which should be good. The band is supposed to play even though this house is not at all the right set up to have a party with a band. We're hoping that everyone will just get drunk early and not mind if we do the same rather than making loud noise in the basement... we'll see.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
