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Holidailies #16….Still watching

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Still no news on the grades. Of course, I should be in my cap and gown about to walk across the stage, but no way I was making Bug sit through 600 names being read. We’ll just have our own celebration, that is, if they ever decide to let me know if I graduated.

It is funny how the right house can make you feel so much better. We moved the beds and washer and dryer over to the BDH last night and slept over there. Even though most of my stuff is still at the HOC (house of crap), it felt so nice to wake up there. Can I tell you what a huge difference having a laundry room makes?? My God. I feel like Martha Stewart. I don’t know why.

I can’t believe it is almost Christmas. I haven’t done anything like I usually do. I am usually Miss Christmas Over Achiever but this year I’ve been slacking bad. I need to get Geo things, I need to find a few more thing for Bug. Ugh. But first I need to pick up all this stuff and move it to the other house. One step at a time.

Did I mention that unless I want to pay $100 a month, I have to get dialup. DIAL.UP. How long do you think I last before I start shelling out the $100 a month?

Thursday Thirteen

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

THIRTEEN OF MY (rather strict) CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS:
1. The Christmas tree must be up by Thanksgiving.
2. Small lights are put on the tree first, followed by bubble lights.
3. Santa must be tracked on Christmas Eve. It is optional to call people and scream at them to GET IN BED NOW BECAUSE SANTA IS COMING.
4. Everyone gets to open one present on Christmas Eve.
5. If you are going to wake up your parents early, you have to do it by singing Christmas carols.
6. When we were children, we all slept in the same bedroom on Christmas Eve.
7. If you touch a present under the Christmas tree before Christmas, it goes away.
8. No one opens presents until coffee is poured. However, you may open your stocking.
9. Presents are opened in order of age. Youngest to Oldest. One person is the present passer-outer. They take a present and hand it to the person it is FROM who then hands it to the person they got the present for. The exception is presents from Santa.
10. Santa only uses wrapping paper with pictures of Santa on it. And only cartoon Santas, because real old-men Santa’s scare me.
11. Everyone opens one present, and then it moves to the next person. Once it is no longer your turn, you are not allowed to play with your presents. You are supposed to watch the other person open their present.
12. If you get caught playing with your present when it is not your turn, you get skipped on your next turn. The exception is your clothes. You can wear as many your new clothes, bows, and curly ribbon as you want. This does not cause you to be skipped.
13. If you are my brother, you will get skipped many, many, many times. But it all works out in the end, because then you get to open three or four presents in a row.
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Holidailies #3..Silent Night

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

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More from Bug:

Radio: Round yon Virgin…

Bug: Virgin!

Bug: Why does Silent Night say VIRGIN??

Me: Because Mary was a virgin, remember?

Bug: Oh yeah. She’s a virgin because she never had the sex.

Me: Right, but she became pregnant anyway.

Bug: Yeah, God got her pregnant.

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Tonight is Bug’s first performance in the children’s choir. It is a “Hanging of the Greens” service. I’m not quite sure what that is, except I’m guessing someone is going to hang some greens, and by greens, I think they mean wreaths and not some spinach or collard greens. Although, I like spinach, and frankly, I think it might make it more interesting.

I asked Geo if people are allowed to bring video cameras into church when kids sing, and he said he didn’t know, but I should bring it anyway. He also said that when I got kicked out of the church to make sure I handed him the camera.