Nothing else matters ...

Merry Christmas Eve and all that stuff.

The kids are frantically getting ready to go to bed (soon!) and we've done all those family things that happen around the holidays. Cooking. Dinner. Glass of wine.

Now I'm off to take the dogs out one more time and get the kiddo settled in.

Here's hoping the family stuff doesn't get to be too much.

The Annual Holiday Gathering has officially ended and it was fun. We watched Drag Me to Hell (quite the holiday movie, yes?) and ate a lot of good food and had a lot of talking. All in all, very satisfying.

I'm tired now. Which is to be expected since I didn't nap and I was running around trying to get things done this morning.

Perhaps I will watch the next episode of Lost. Perhaps I will watch some more Alice. I just don't know yet.

Later!

I went on a field trip with Cole's class to the Tech Museum today. It was fun. Especially since one of my three kiddos that I was supposed to be chaperoning wasn't there. Two kids? Not so hard. And when one is your own and the other barely speaks ... even easier.

So. My day came and went and I don't have a lot to show for it. I'm on disc 4 of Lost season 2 at this point. I really have no idea what episode, but I know it's the 4th disc.

Tomorrow is major shopping day. Not Christmas shopping, mind you, but food shopping for my Christmas party. My party's on Sunday. It's time to get this done!

Back to Lost. I'm having way too much fun watching this all over again. I had forgotten so much that it's almost like seeing them for the first time. The only thing I'm going to throw in there is that I agree with iron_knife that there should be a "flashback skip" button. Some of those flashbacks are ... not fun to re-watch. Kinda boring, in fact.

I'm out.

Cole was in a class play this morning about the states and capitals and I went to it and it was so funny. Cole played the game show host, complete with cheesy voice and everything. He did such a good job.

And that is all I have planned for today! Awesome. I've freed up my day to watch copious amounts of Lost season 2 episodes and read a book. Oh, wait. I just remembered that I have to buy a few more things to round out my Christmas shopping. *sigh* Every time I think I'm done with that, another thing pops up that I have to get. Something for Cole's school, something for his baby sister. I really should have remembered that last one, but I didn't until yesterday. Whoops.

Is it mean to dress your dog in Christmas clothes? Specifically a Santa suit. You decided ...

Like a dumbass, I had to mention yesterday that I hadn't had a cold yet since the weather had turned. Guess what? I have a cold. Stuffy nose, snotty grossness and a sore throat that feels a bit like broken glass. Wonderful. That'll teach me. I'm not sure what it'll teach me, but I'm sure I'll get something out of all this.

To top it off, today has been declared (by Heather and myself) as "Get our Christmas shopping done" day. Awesome. I'd best stock my pockets with tissues while I'm thinking about it.

In Lost news, I'm up to episode ... actually, I have no idea. I think the last one I watched was the one with Boone and Shannon (Hearts and Minds, maybe) but I might have watched one more after that. I do love that Season Play option on the discs. It keeps track of where I am for me! LOVE!

For those that like themselves a little Supernatural fic, tlace has posted a lovely Sam/Cara piece over at just_scribbles. I had the good fortune to read the first few chapters a while back in beta and it's a very good story.

Alright. I have things to do. Which mostly involve blowing my nose. And killing vampires. :)
Later!

I have been having the most amazingly bizarre dreams lately. In one of them, I was kidnapped and taken to the woods and forced to dig holes so that heads could be buried. Weird, right? Yeah. Except there's more. Once I was free I found a way to lead the good guys to the place where the heads had been buried even though I was blindfolded and didn't see exactly where we were going. Seriously, it was creepy and yet amazing at the same time because it was chock full of plot. And it played out so much like a movie in my head that I can still see parts of it. i wish I could remember the one I had last night. It was as weird as that one.

Anyway. We have snow here. Up in the hills, but we get very very very little snow in Morgan Hill so this is a major event. It's pretty. Cold and pretty. We also have rain. Lots of wet on the ground and cold in the air. It definitely feels like Christmas is on the way.

Speaking of which, a have a good chunk of my Christmas shopping done. I went out with both Amber and Heather yesterday (at different times, mind you) and got a lot done. Now I just have to wrap and pick up those last few elusive presents.

Well, I was going to put a picture of my two sweet puppies up, but I don't like any of the pictures I have. Besides which, it just took me 20 minutes to transfer the damn pictures from my camera to my computer. My comp decided it didn't want to read my memory card and just ignored me when I spoke to it sternly. Very sad.

I think I'm going to go do some stuffs. Fun stuffs. Or not.
later.

I went shopping today with the idea that I'd get the bulk of my Christmas shopping done and out of the way. I bought ONE present. That was not what I had in mind. I think I'm going to aim for having it finished early next week. On the other hand, it's supposed to rain, rain, rain next week. Maybe I'll give myself until the beginning of the following week.

I don't want to overdo it, you know.

I'm tired. I have a movie review to put up at blabapalooza. Oh, and I got our monthly wrap-up done over there yesterday. Yay, me! I've kinda lost the train of thought that was chugging along here, but I think I meant to mention that the review isn't going to be done tonight. Tomorrow. At the earliest. I make no promises.

Time to cart the kiddo off to his room and shuffle the dogs around.
Night!

Lo! I was decorating outside today. There's a whole silver and red candy cane theme going on in the front of my house. It's kinda cool. I haven't managed to get the lights up yet but hopefully that will get done tomorrow. It all depends on whether or not I want to do some shopping or some decorating.

I did not wrap presents today.

I did get the book I won through that Goodreads contest in the mail. It looks pretty cool and I'm excited to start reading it. Once I finish decorating the house, that is.

I finally got my camera working and I've been taking a ridiculous amount of pictures of my girls. And by "got my camera working" I mean that I put new batteries in. *blink, blink* I'm crazy good like that. Oh, and my dogs are super cute but I need to take a good picture of them before I can post it. The lack is in my picture taking skills, not the girls.

I'm tired.

I watched Terminator Salvation on Blu-ray earlier. Lovely. For the record, I liked the movie. I got the feeling that a lot of people were disappointed with it, but it hit all my movie watching kinks. Hot robot guy? check. Gravelly voiced hero? check. Post-apocalyptic future? check. That kid who played Chekov? check. Okay, that last one wasn't actually a kink, just something I found amusing.

I'm going to bed. My brain is sleepy and it's telling me to call it a night.
Later.

My mom made a full on Thanksgiving dinner today. We had our actual Thanksgiving with family in Gilroy and it was great but my mom has a deep seated need to make her own turkey. So my sisters, Hailey, grandma, and Amb's mother- and brother-in-law joined us for dinner with the works. It was so good. I totally made the gravy. It was deeply amazing. You would have wept. Seriously.

In a nutshell, I'm exhausted now. I stayed up way too late last night and got up far too early. I was "helping" my mom get stuff ready this morning. I guess I was just getting in the way because I was given garbage duty a couple of times. Underfoot much? Anyway. I didn't really nap and we all know that I need my nap. Plus, I was on Bailey desensitization duty since she goes crazy with the barking whenever Amber's mother-in-law comes over. It's weird. She does that very rarely, but she just barks and barks and barks when she's here. So I had to do the meet and greet between her and Bailey. Again. Let Bailey feel safe and do some sniffing. Then everything's fine and dandy. With turkey.

In other news, tomorrow's the last day of November and, hence, the last day of NaNoWriMo and I think I clocked in at roughly 1000 words. That would make me 49,000 short. Oops. I do this every year. Part of it is that November is one of the worst months for me to completely clear my calendar. I have the kids out of school nearly more than they're in it. I have family stuff. I used to have work. Thank goodness that's not a concern this year. So, yeah. I didn't write 50,000 words. Maybe I can do it in December. Maybe.

However, I did manage to finally send out emails for the Holiday Gathering. I think we have our date set. Now I just need to send out the evites and decide what we're eating so I can hand out food assignments. We're kinda doing a potluck this year. Kinda. Okay. Fine. It's exactly like a potluck. Whatever! I think having a theme for the movies we're going to watch would be fun but I haven't come up with any great themes yet. Nothing tops the year we watched the entire Lord of the Rings extended cut trilogy. That was a ridiculous amount of movie watching. 12 hours or something insane like that. 12 hours. Yikes.

There you have it. The kids are back to a couple of weeks of a normal school schedule before being out for two weeks. The dogs are more or less on a schedule. Well, Bailey is. Ruby just pees when ever she feels the urge. Usually in the middle of my floor. Woe. Sometimes she goes into the bathroom and pees in there. Sadly, it's not on the toilet, just on the floor. Or maybe I don't mean "sadly". I guess if she did use the toilet it would be weird.

I have no idea what I'm talking about anymore.
I'm done.
Later.

Geez, this week has flown by. I haven't done much with it, but it's almost gone. Interesting.

Not much going on here. jenah and her son came over for a visit today. Jenn and I watched Star Trek in gorgeous, gorgeous Blu-Ray. That's something that just needs to be experienced to be believed. It's very, very pretty. We also watched half of Watchmen but we had to stop midway because it was just too much. Too long, not too much of a movie. Or plot. Or whatever I'm trying to say. We'll pick it up next time they visit.

I hope all my American friends had a nice holiday and a nice weekend and that you're all gearing up toward that crazy Christmas stuff. *sigh* We've already decorated. We'll get the tree tomorrow and get that up and running and then it's just finishing shopping and wrapping gifts and baking. I'm going to be doing a lot of baking this year. I can feel it.

I'm done now. My brain is sleepy.
Later.