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“Come out with your hands up! You are surrounded!”

This is what I expect to hear over a horn any moment now. Never, in my entire life, have I heard so many fireworks going off. I keep wondering if I should go outside and hose down my roof. I’m sure I’ll find a dozen or so bottle rocket carcasses in my yard. Grrrr…

It’s a Texas thing. I don’t get it. Firework stands open up twice a year here: Fourth of July (makes sense) and Christmas through New Years. And Texas goes beyond the trailer stand on the side of the road. There is a Sam’s Club-sized warehouse down the block from our house. And since we’re outside the city limits, people just go nuts with ‘em. I mean, they come out of the warehouse with grocery carts full of fireworks. They drive off with their pick-up beds FULL of fireworks. I don’t want to know how much money people waste on these nuisances!

I remember our first Christmas in Texas, being surprised at fireworks at Christmas-time. And, our first Christmas in our house (which is outside the city limits), wondering how fireworks become part of the Christmas celebration.

Our new family saying is, “Nothin’ celebrates the birth of the baby Jesus like blowin’ things up!!!”

And, apparently, nothing celebrates the new year like burnin’ down your neighbor’s house. After the latest barage of fireworks, I looked outside and our neighbors 2 doors down have a bonfire flaming in the street and are throwing firecrackers into it! Holy smokes! Makes me think of my favorite line from one of my favorite movies (Spaceballs): “I knew it! I’m surrounded by a**holes!!”

P.S. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I love presents, which is why I love Christmas and my birthday. Christmas is better, though, cuz you get to give presents too. Contrary to what my hubby implies, the fact that I’m in my 30’s does NOT mean I can’t get excited about presents. Just because I’m in my 30’s doesn’t mean I shouldn’t enthusiastically attack the gifts under the tree and start shaking and squeezing.

Does it?

I’ll be very sad if you say, “Yes.”

Christmas was good–pretty low-key, which suits me just fine. But in a way I did miss the big family gathering. It’s more stressful, but the stress is rewarded I think.

Sometimes my hubby surprises me with his thoughtfulness! Way back in October I went to Albuquerque and found some peridot (my birthstone) that I really liked. He remembered me going on about the set, saying that I wanted a good set of birthstone jewelry. So what was under the tree for me? A fantabulous set of white gold and peridot jewelry. *sigh* Not only was it good loot, but it’s a fuzzy feeling to know he pays attention.

I also got this really great calendar from my mom called “Celtic Mandala: Earth Mysteries and Mythology.” The artwork is by Jan Delyth–I can’t stop looking at it! Every time I look at one of the pieces I find something I didn’t see before. It’s breathtaking.

LOL. This post is starting to remind me of the first entry I wrote in my first diary. I was eight years old and on Christmas wrote: “Dear Diary, today was Christmas and it was fun. I got you. And I got …”

My family must have been pleased with my behavior over the year, but Santa, on the other hand, must have been severely displeased.  I’ve been sick for almost three weeks now. Stomach bug, followed by 10-day tension and migraine headache, reaction to said migraine medicine, and dizziness. The headache is gone, but the dizziness remains in what my doc says is benign positional vertigo. Oh joy! As the “benign” indicates, it’s not serious, just annoying. I’m not comfortable driving, and any time I tackle a household chore I just about fall over. Yep, highly annoying. A pox on Santa if this is what he leaves me!
Well, I hope my several loyal readers had a wonderful Christmas. I’m off to recline in my chair and avoid moving my head.

Every once in a while, I’ll dig in to my server stats to see how many hits I’m getting. One of the nifty things the server logs is hits from searches and what the search string was.

I’m guessing there’s a porn star named Becca because I’ve gotten several hits over the last few months from people searching on things like “becca xxx” and “free becca sex scene.” Imagine there surprise and disappointment when they get to my prude little site.

There are several variations of becca and “home school,” which is slightly mystifying.

Oh, and my favorite so far: crapmonkey. Can’t figure out why that pointed to my site!