before the day gets past me...

i figure i better extend a holiday greeting before i wake up and realize that the fat man in the red suit has already visited, the trash is cleaned up off the floor, and something is already broken.

actually, it's going to be an amazingly busy next fewdays.
tomorrow (the eve) will be spent at my grandma's house with the extended family. my mom and her sisters with their respective families. it will be a good time, indeed.

then we will drag ass home late and i will spend most of the night getting shit together for the girls - the visit from the bigman himself.

it's going to be slim pickins this year but the girls didn't ask for much.
biggirl asked for an ip0d t0uch and a keyboard.
babygirl asked for an ip0d (because biggirl asked for one - she's getting a shuffl3 anyway), a barbi3 eye-design thing, some weee games, and a d$.

compared to last year, it's like the p0tato famine.

after we get up the morning of and enjoy what was left for all the good girls, we will go to my moms and do the same with some brunch thrown in.

then i pack the girls up and as much shit as i can in the car and head 2.5 hours northeast to meet their dad for the exchange at some fast food restaurant. the girls will then spend the next 9 days with him and his family for the holidays.

i'm planning on being home by 5 that day so i can do something adult and go to a xmas party with a friend and other adults. it won't be a drunken hoopla (altho that would be fine by me) and there will even be some drs there. i might even not wear my chuck tayl0rs.
heh...

then on saturday, i'm heading about 2 hours northwest of here to spend the night with Y* and her family at the airb0at capital of the south. her family has a cabin there and they are all getting together for the holiday with plenty of fresh kill on the grill and cold beer.

i'm nervous as fuck thinking that i'm going to spend time with her family but i've met most of them already anyway.
she's got two sisters (one married with 2 kids, the other single with 2 kids), and a stepdad. both of her parents passed several years back. i've met everyone except for the married sister.

anyway.....
that's things.

i've got a dining room table covered with bags of shit and boxes of wrapping paper, gift bags, tags, tape, etc.
i've got a laundry room floor covered with dirty clothes.
i've got 3 dogs that are spread all over the house contributing to the hairballs all along the baseboards.
and i've got no motivation for anything other than r0ckband 2.

ya, i bought it when it came out for the wee on the 18th and it never got wrapped. it got carried from the car to under the tree. from there, it was unpacked and pretty much hasn't been turned off since then.

i'm a wee junkie.

i just wish it was the wee fit instead.

xo.

*who i refer to here.