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llcoolvadThe time! It do fly. Year's almost over, holidays are holidaying, and everything seems to be progressing along fast-ish.
Had a mixed Christmas. Mom had a health scare on Christmas Eve morn, so I was over there at 6:45am calming her down and trying to determine if she needed to go to the hospital. Eventually we determined that she didn't (she was having very severe vertigo, and she's never had it before in her life so she wasn't sure if it might be a stroke or a heart attack), so I went off to complete her Christmas shopping for her while she stayed safely in bed. Came back, wrapped the presents (they were for the landlords and their kids, who live upstairs and are very nice to Mom), gave Mom her presents, admired mine some more (a laptop!), spent some time with her. Got home around 6pm and was wrecked, but still had a couple of gifts to wrap, so we got some takeout Chinese and I wrapped everything. Got in bed by 11:30 (really early for me) and slept thru til 10am. Awesome!
On Christmas morn, I woke up kind of slowly. Had cereal. Did stockings with Brian, then moved into the presents haul. Fun! Had some cinnamon rolls. Ate cookies. More junk! Lazed around. Finally we decided to straighten up a bit, clean up the kitchen, make dinner. Brian turned on the oven and zzzzzap! Heating element failure, sparks, white hotness, not good at all. We use it all the time (see: cinnamon rolls earlier) so it's not like it was sad from disuse. Brian had to unplug it to get it to stop sparking. No more stove for us. Sadness. But! Patrick to the rescue! He lives next door, has a working oven, and already had dinner with his family so he wasn't using it. Yay! Turkey in the oven at 5:00. Exchanged presents with P, then watched some Doctor Who, then ate dinner around 8:15. Finished in time to watch the new Xmas Who, which was cute. Reviewed my haul: laptop (!), ipod/iphone portable speakers, ice maker (! YAY! I know, seems like a weird thing to love, but I really have a thing for ice and have wanted one forever), towels, sheets, pillows x 4, some neat books, treats, other nice things. Very awesome.
Today, with our impending snow-my-god storm and our new lack of stove, we needed to restock the house with microwaveable/crockpot-able stuff; I also needed to get Mom some supplies. Off to Shaw's, which was suffering from an attack of French Toast Alert. Lines 20-deep. Silly. Still, needed stuff. Waited. Dropped off Brian and supplies at home, headed to Mom's to drop off her supplies, then slunk home and now refuse to leave the house. THERE IS WHITE STUFF FALLING FROM THE SKY, DID YOU KNOW? THE END DAYS ARE NIGH!
Spent most of the rest of today watching The Walking Dead (I had DVRed it but hadn't actually watched it) with P. Brian napped and played games (not a big zombie fan, my boy). [I am dumping my cable service for another in two days, so I have STUFF I need OFF my DVR! Now I only have some Leverage and some Hawaii Five-O left.]
As I sit here I can hear the rumblings of the snowplows as they merrily scrape around town, and I am grateful that my house is warm, my mother is alive, my boy is here, and my best friend lives next door. All is right in my world.
And how was your holiday?
Had a mixed Christmas. Mom had a health scare on Christmas Eve morn, so I was over there at 6:45am calming her down and trying to determine if she needed to go to the hospital. Eventually we determined that she didn't (she was having very severe vertigo, and she's never had it before in her life so she wasn't sure if it might be a stroke or a heart attack), so I went off to complete her Christmas shopping for her while she stayed safely in bed. Came back, wrapped the presents (they were for the landlords and their kids, who live upstairs and are very nice to Mom), gave Mom her presents, admired mine some more (a laptop!), spent some time with her. Got home around 6pm and was wrecked, but still had a couple of gifts to wrap, so we got some takeout Chinese and I wrapped everything. Got in bed by 11:30 (really early for me) and slept thru til 10am. Awesome!
On Christmas morn, I woke up kind of slowly. Had cereal. Did stockings with Brian, then moved into the presents haul. Fun! Had some cinnamon rolls. Ate cookies. More junk! Lazed around. Finally we decided to straighten up a bit, clean up the kitchen, make dinner. Brian turned on the oven and zzzzzap! Heating element failure, sparks, white hotness, not good at all. We use it all the time (see: cinnamon rolls earlier) so it's not like it was sad from disuse. Brian had to unplug it to get it to stop sparking. No more stove for us. Sadness. But! Patrick to the rescue! He lives next door, has a working oven, and already had dinner with his family so he wasn't using it. Yay! Turkey in the oven at 5:00. Exchanged presents with P, then watched some Doctor Who, then ate dinner around 8:15. Finished in time to watch the new Xmas Who, which was cute. Reviewed my haul: laptop (!), ipod/iphone portable speakers, ice maker (! YAY! I know, seems like a weird thing to love, but I really have a thing for ice and have wanted one forever), towels, sheets, pillows x 4, some neat books, treats, other nice things. Very awesome.
Today, with our impending snow-my-god storm and our new lack of stove, we needed to restock the house with microwaveable/crockpot-able stuff; I also needed to get Mom some supplies. Off to Shaw's, which was suffering from an attack of French Toast Alert. Lines 20-deep. Silly. Still, needed stuff. Waited. Dropped off Brian and supplies at home, headed to Mom's to drop off her supplies, then slunk home and now refuse to leave the house. THERE IS WHITE STUFF FALLING FROM THE SKY, DID YOU KNOW? THE END DAYS ARE NIGH!
Spent most of the rest of today watching The Walking Dead (I had DVRed it but hadn't actually watched it) with P. Brian napped and played games (not a big zombie fan, my boy). [I am dumping my cable service for another in two days, so I have STUFF I need OFF my DVR! Now I only have some Leverage and some Hawaii Five-O left.]
As I sit here I can hear the rumblings of the snowplows as they merrily scrape around town, and I am grateful that my house is warm, my mother is alive, my boy is here, and my best friend lives next door. All is right in my world.
And how was your holiday?
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