well, it's over.

and now the returns begin. i spend all day telling people that they can't trade their christmas gifts for cash. i shouldn't have to tell them why we don't do that. are they really that hard-pressed?
i mean, jimmy told me some people returned a fence to home depot the other day. used. these people tore their fence out of the ground, brought it to home depot covered in mud and bothered the employees for two hours until somebody agreed to give them their money back.
is this just the beginning?





it might be time to read grapes of wrath and get some food storage together.

merry christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!

i've been thinking about the christmas movies we loved as kids.
here are a few that we'll never forget!
(youtube is a christmas miracle.)

i think we used to call this orphanage christmas or something. the song is my favorite.

this is the real rudolph. like, really old.

i love this one because a lot of our movies were recorded off of the television, just like this. our mickey's christmas carol had all the commercials included. haha.

how can you not love muppets doing, well, anything? my sister used to sing all the songs from this throughout the year.

nestor, the christmas donkey. he's just too cute. the music is even better.

this one cuts off just in time. it's a bit much. i can't believe we used to watch the entire movie!

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas!

actually, it's looking like late september.
it's seventy-two degrees outside right now!
we have the back door open so judge can roam in and out as he pleases.
it's overcast and looking to rain, that's why it is so warm and humid.
i mean, it's downright balmy! too bad we're not closer to the beach.

i'm used to sliding my car down a snowy mountain to get around.
i'm not used to crunching the leaves in december.
it's so odd! i like it, though. it's different, but i like it.
i'm putting a lot more of the layering items in my closet to use and my boots aren't ruined from salt in the parking lot. so it's good for my wardrobe, i guess.

i keep doing holiday sorts of things to feel like it's christmas time:
making cookies, putting on music, turning off the radio in the car so i can sing carols at the top of my lungs, looking at the holiday issues of home decor magazines, keeping the lights on the tree on all the time, making holiday cards, etc, etc.

judge just brought me a frisbee, so it looks like i better head outside into the heat.
that's not christmasy at all.
weird.

ginger snaps!

anybody want some?
homemade!
i'm just going to have to eat them all alone in my red and green outfit.

i've been really lucky.

i don't think i've been "sick" once this whole last year. i've had some days when i didn't feel so hot, but nothing that prevented me from going about my business. today i think something might be coming on. i've had sinus headaches for a few days and last night my nose exploded! that's right. i was just sitting in an armchair when, suddenly, a large amount of liquid popped out of my nose. it looked like water so it wasn't a snotty mess but WEIRD, right? in any case, i took some nyquil and went to bed. i woke up this morning feeling groggier than ever. my nose is stuffed and my throat is sore. i'm about to take some dayquil and start cleaning up the house with the hopes that it's just exhaustion and not some kind of infection. if that doesn't work, i'll try and sleep it off. that's plan b.

but i don't even have time to be sick in bed.

update: scarf day.

so this is me, all ready for scarf day.