So we made it to Virginia and after a few days of very grey skies and a refreshing chill in the air, it totally warmed up to near 60 degrees and then rained. Sheesh. And today?
The freaking sun is out. What’s up with that? You would think that when you fly across the damn country for the holidays at least it could pretend like it was going to snow. Feh.
That list I made before I left had to get done or we wouldn’t have been able to get on the plane. So no problem there. When the shuttle driver arrived at the front door to collect us, the house was decent, the presents for the older boys were snuggled under the tree and as an added bribe to them to take care of the house while we were gone, we had the RT open one of his presents we couldn’t take…a gamer’s computer (HP Pavilion Elite) with a 22″ flat panel monitor and a humongous graphics card (XFX GeForce 8800 GT XXX) and I have to swagger around a bit when I say that even though I have absolutely NO idea what I’m talking about) that had to have its own power source (or some kind of a fan thingy installed). We had it installed before we left the store (Fry’s Electronics, thank you very much and NOT BEST BUY Bwhahahahahahaha Losers…) by a sales/tech guy who was completely cool, talked the entire time he was putting it in and answered everyone else’s questions at the same time — including “The Wife” on his cell a couple of times regarding being home on time for a change. The guy works 16 hour days. Amazing. We came home with a fist full of rebates I now have to complete so we can actually have a few checks in the mail at some point in the next century. I’ve done them before and I swear we never get anything out of them — most likely because I forgot to cross a “t” or dot an “i.”
Now the cool thing about this computer is that it also functions as a TV, so that helps us out a bit in the area of ensuring that we can all be in separate rooms watching different programs and never see each other ever again. Trick. AND (drum roll…) now neither the MoH or the RT has to use my Mac. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT.
Seriously. It’s mine, mine, mine. ALLLLLLLLLLL mine and they don’t get to TOUCH it.
EVER. So I’m sure the two older boys (okay, so they’re men, but you know how that goes when you’re the mom, right?) are enjoying it while the RT is away. And you can imagine the RT is sweating a bit because he had to leave it at home and is now stuck in this female infested house for the holidays. My sister does have a Wii, though, so people have been having a blast with that. I haven’t succumbed, but most likely will tonight after a couple glasses of wineski.
Enough of that nonsense.
So I just wanted to let you know we were all alive and well, have celebrated my mom’s 70th birthday in true style (there wasn’t a fancy dress in the house…) and took some photos I’ll have to try and share later. Totally hilarious. Oh, and “we” constitutes my sister’s family (husband and two younger daughters) her oldest daughter and her boyfriend (who left Monterey, CA to live here instead and are holed in upstairs indefinitely..) my mother (who’s living in the basement sort of indefinitely, but actually more like temporarily…) a dog, and three cats who all have to be kept away from one another. Oh. And us. Quite the household.
Today, more lists are in order — but they’re the lists I’m good at that include miles of ingredients and a sequence of what to prepare in which order. With one last trip to the grocery store (there have already been two…) we’ll be ready to hunker down for a fun night of dessert making, toasting (instead of the roasting we did to my mom last night), and preparing for our holiday breakfast and then dinner later.
The MoH and RT are out today with my seester doing the turismo thang in D.C. I’ll venture out on Wednesday (which is our wedding anniversary) and make like a tourist myself. Maybe I’ll even twist the MoH’s arm a bit for a swanky dinner or something.
In the meantime, I sincerely hope you are warm, doing what fills your heart — regardless of what it is — and that you are healthy.
Thanks for visiting my little space in the Bloggosphere so often this past year. You have helped to take me from the exhausted, burnt out, frazzled, and completely flattened person that I was, to a person who laughs much more than she used to, and who has also recovered something she thought she’d lost for good — writing.
YOU ROCK!
Glad to hear things are going swimmingly! That PC sounds sweet, and I guess you’ll be able to get rid of the kids’ iTunes libraries now, so you’ll have a little more room on your Mac now.
Merry Christmas, and good luck with that dinner!
merry christmas to you and your’s kelly!!!!!!
aw! yeay! Merry Christmas XXOO 🙂
Here’s hoping you have a safe and happy holiday Kelly. Congrats on the new PC for the RT
SB
Merry Happy Anniversary Kelly!
Glad the trip out was smooth – sorry about the nice weather… You could always cross your fingers for a Nor’Easter to sweep up or an ice storm to tide you over on your VA trip. Kalamazoo almost didn’t have a white Christmas, but some snow fell Sunday night and made it all pretty & covered up the leaves again.
Enjoy your trip and all the laughs and memories with your family – it sounds like a housefull, but the more the merrier! Have a glass or wine – or 2 or 3 – and grab that Wii and have some fun!
“That list I made before I left had to get done or we wouldn’t have been able to get on the plane. So no problem there”
That means ITS COMPLETED 100%! Im soooo proud.
Have a great holiday, it sounds like it’s a winner so far.
ps… NO ONE IS EVER ALLOWED TO USE MY MAC
Thanks to you all for checking in on me over the holidays…Mike & Scott, I knew you’d have something to say about that computer for the RT. And meleah — I knew you’d appreciate that I’d gotten that list taken care of. And Cooper — I thought about you a few times while near DC and wondered how your gingerbread (men?) turned out. Paisley, thanks for your thoughts and wishes — we must have felt them! And Ritzy, I waved in your vicinity when we flew over. I’ll wait for the photos of those beautiful boys of yours!