What's up with Whatsit

Christmas-time's a-coming: in 366 days!

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor

Christmas this year is over with, thank God. I went Friday and did every molecule of my Christmas shopping. There's somethng to be said for doing all your Christmas shopping in one day. Every time somebody would ask me if I had finished shopping yet, I would just say no. I would not verbally add that I hadn't even started yet. There is such a judgementalism about people who don't finish, or even start, their Christmas shopping early. However, that's what I do every year. I only buy for my kids anyway, and they just get clothes, which they usually need, and one present from Santa. Plus their stockings get filled. My mother and grandmother and I don't exchange presents and all hubby and I do is fill each other's stocking. I didn't participate in Secret Santa at work this year and I don't have any friends I exchange with. This keeps it simple, which suits me fine. So there.

I can't talk my husband into agreeing with his sister and her family not to exchange presents, but now that we are financially separate, it doesn't matter. He went the other night and got them bunch of stuff they don't need, but that's his little red wagon. He gets his brother-in-law a tool every year - has for years. However, I wll say that this guy is hard to buy for. We are supposed to gather with them some night this week

I am super happy that I can resume my (relatively) normal life. I have one more week of Christmas vacation off work. I don't plan on doing very much that I "have" to do - I am going to eke some enjoyment out of this week some kind of way. It's rainy today. Possibly me and my recliner will get to know each other better than ever - tra-la!

" . . .my doctor says I have a malformed public duty gland and
a natural deficiency in moral fiber . . ." Douglas Adams