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So where is everyone headed this holiday season?
QUOTE(nebraska29 @ Dec 21 2005, 09:03 PM)
So where is everyone headed this holiday season?
I'm leaving for my uncle's in St. Louis after work today. I'll be back on Monday. We plan a long weekend doing nothing except sitting in front of the woodburning stove with the dog at our feet. I have been looking forward to it for weeks now. LOL
Next weekend I'm going to visit friends in Omaha. I'll be sure and wave when I get over the state line! lol
We visited friends in Colorado Springs last weekend, but are staying home for Christmas this year. My family lives in Oregon and my wife's are in Ohio. After just moving a couple of months ago, we feel like spending a quiet holiday.........unpacking....still.
I took about three weeks of leave, and it may be all I get for awhile, so I'm just trying to relax.
I took about three weeks of leave, and it may be all I get for awhile, so I'm just trying to relax.
I have a date with Lydia to go cruising around the neighborhood on Christmas Eve to look at the lights. I'm going to try some night shots with the digital camera, maybe some crude vids. With a half-gig card, the sky's the limit!
Christmas dinner is seafood, lobster. Be a fisher of men, eh? No, just something different. Live lobs not allowed, according to L. She has no sense of barbarianism. Chuck the ocean cockroaches on the barby, I say!
The family is in Denver, poor like little shepherds this year. They're doing all sorts of cheap family things, like going to museums, zoo, inside nature stuff (arboretum, butterfly world) and will be down here after New Years. Bet the grandkid remembers this one.
What's left of my family is in Minnesota. Merry Christmas, y'all! I'll probably call to see what's going on, try not to argue with my last remaining brother. How come the good ones always die young?
Which reminds me, I need to be bad. It's a survival thing. Non of those 100+ folks will admit it, but it's true. What's it going to be this time? Chocolate?
Christmas dinner is seafood, lobster. Be a fisher of men, eh? No, just something different. Live lobs not allowed, according to L. She has no sense of barbarianism. Chuck the ocean cockroaches on the barby, I say!
The family is in Denver, poor like little shepherds this year. They're doing all sorts of cheap family things, like going to museums, zoo, inside nature stuff (arboretum, butterfly world) and will be down here after New Years. Bet the grandkid remembers this one.
What's left of my family is in Minnesota. Merry Christmas, y'all! I'll probably call to see what's going on, try not to argue with my last remaining brother. How come the good ones always die young?
Which reminds me, I need to be bad. It's a survival thing. Non of those 100+ folks will admit it, but it's true. What's it going to be this time? Chocolate?
I'm going to God's Country!!!... Louisiana of course!!! 
Packin' up the little lady and dogs... wrappin' presents (tonight of course), and making the trek east into the Red River Valley to find a place where people still use blinkers and hold doors. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, those places still exist. You just have to go to Shreveport, La to find them.
Hope y'all have a safe Christmas weekend if you're traveling, and we hope that all finds its way back to the real meaning of the holiday. Drink some egg nog, play the piano, and hang out by the fire (of course unless you're in the south where it's going to be 65 degrees!!).
OH- and if you happen to get a chance, throw some change in the Salvation Army bucket or stop to give to the guy holdin' the cardboard sign on the interstate off ramp. Believe it or not, he may be really homeless and hungry!
Packin' up the little lady and dogs... wrappin' presents (tonight of course), and making the trek east into the Red River Valley to find a place where people still use blinkers and hold doors. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, those places still exist. You just have to go to Shreveport, La to find them.
Hope y'all have a safe Christmas weekend if you're traveling, and we hope that all finds its way back to the real meaning of the holiday. Drink some egg nog, play the piano, and hang out by the fire (of course unless you're in the south where it's going to be 65 degrees!!).
OH- and if you happen to get a chance, throw some change in the Salvation Army bucket or stop to give to the guy holdin' the cardboard sign on the interstate off ramp. Believe it or not, he may be really homeless and hungry!
Our relatives are scattered to the winds. My TN-based relatives either live in the house with me or live in LaFollette (north of Knoxville) My father-in-law begged out of travelling here on Xmas day due to illness. But we are going to be here with three kids and four adults watching youngin's get spoiled too much.
We'll be welcoming home for his first Christmas at home in four years my now-inactive Marine 
son. Even if only for a two day visit, a very joyous occasion
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukka, &/or Happy Festivus all!
(That ought to cover about everyone)
son. Even if only for a two day visit, a very joyous occasion Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukka, &/or Happy Festivus all!
(That ought to cover about everyone)
Mike and I have been quite festive this season so far. In previous years, Mike has had to drag me pouting and brooding into the holiday season. I’ve been slowly coming around and confess I’ve actually enjoyed myself so far this year.
Our house is all decorated, including a live tree and front porch pillars wrapped to look like candy canes. We made 8 different kinds of cookies including lemon and peppermint kaleidoscopes, chocolate chip, peanut butter kiss, candy cane cookies, pinwheels, oatmeal icebox, and toffee bars.
We took Mike’s nieces and nephews ice skating – quite a workout. The office I work in had a nice Christmas lunch at one of the frou-frou members-only type clubs. Of course, I ordered the most expensive thing on the menu.
Tomorrow Mike and I will celebrate with my family in Illinois like we have the last few years – by internet video conference. We all nestle up by the warm glow of our monitors and open the gifts we sent earlier in the week. (By the way, major kudos to FedEx ground who shipped over 25 lbs of gifts for less than $16 in 3 days!). We’ll make some calls to Mike’s family on Christmas eve also and maybe even try a video meeting with his dad.
Christmas day we’ll spend with Mike’s sister’s family in the Savannah burbs. We’ll have a nice fat Christmas dinner with all the trimmings. Monday I have off, so I intend on sleeping and maybe some laundry, but mostly sleeping.
Have a warm and joyous holiday everyone.
Our house is all decorated, including a live tree and front porch pillars wrapped to look like candy canes. We made 8 different kinds of cookies including lemon and peppermint kaleidoscopes, chocolate chip, peanut butter kiss, candy cane cookies, pinwheels, oatmeal icebox, and toffee bars.
We took Mike’s nieces and nephews ice skating – quite a workout. The office I work in had a nice Christmas lunch at one of the frou-frou members-only type clubs. Of course, I ordered the most expensive thing on the menu.
Tomorrow Mike and I will celebrate with my family in Illinois like we have the last few years – by internet video conference. We all nestle up by the warm glow of our monitors and open the gifts we sent earlier in the week. (By the way, major kudos to FedEx ground who shipped over 25 lbs of gifts for less than $16 in 3 days!). We’ll make some calls to Mike’s family on Christmas eve also and maybe even try a video meeting with his dad.
Christmas day we’ll spend with Mike’s sister’s family in the Savannah burbs. We’ll have a nice fat Christmas dinner with all the trimmings. Monday I have off, so I intend on sleeping and maybe some laundry, but mostly sleeping.
Have a warm and joyous holiday everyone.
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