Oh look! A blog! I wonder what it's for.

Yeah, I'm still here. It is Christmas day and we have survived. Thrived, even. Neither Twitch nor Light came home for Christmas. I knew Light wouldn't be able to come, but Twitch decided he didn't want to. But I talked to him this afternoon and he is woefully depressed. Things are a bit rough for him right now, but he's doing alright in the whole scheme of things.

Twitch says he realizes now what an annoying prick he's been for years. He works in food service now, and is very irritated by customers who do things that he used to do. That he did not that long ago. He is aware and now feels terribly guilty about how he has acted, but doesn't know what to do about it. I said "Change." He complained or made excuses, I don't know. I quit listening to him there for a minute when he got mopey.

Light is sharing her holiday with good friends of hers. I talked to her for a while this afternoon. She sounds good. Also talked to my Mama, who is spending the holiday where we spent Thanksgiving, with my brother Jim. My other brother Mike called me earlier when he was on his way to Jim's  house to do the family thing. They sound good.

Sproing and Diva got a flat screen TV, 32", for Christmas. Well, it's a family gift, really. We haven't had a flat screen in the living room, and now that everything broadcasted is formatted for the wider screen, it's hard to watch a lot of shows. Ya' miss half of them - the left quarter and right quarter of the picture. Cable isn't hooked to the new TV yet, but the DVD player is. Sproing is in there now watching a show on the old TV, but had a movie on the new one earlier.

And I had a lovely nap this afternoon. I feel much better, sort of. We had a minimal Christmas this year. Superman and Sproing went out and got a tree yesterday. For $10. If you wait until the 24th, you can finagle a good price. We also just got the turkey yesterday. Had to get a fresh (not frozen) one because we didn't have time to thaw the bird. Have I mentioned that I love turkey? The only ones available were rather large. We got the smallest one at 18.6 lbs. It's out of the oven now, resting as turkeys are wont to do. Superman has prepared the gravy, he tells me. And it's good. I'm eager! My rolls are rising, should be ready to bake in half an hour, maybe less.

Diva was pleasant today. She was a bit grumpy yesterday, but I was worse. We worked it out. I apologized for being a grump. Sproing, on the other hand, was an absolute ass yesterday. He's been better today. He's just an argument waiting to happen almost all the time.

Superman has a very long holiday. Last Friday he worked a short day, and doesn't have to go back to work until Jan 6. I LOVE having him home like this! It's hard to keep up with what day it is, though. Garbage gets picked up on Tuesdays, and I was so proud of us that we remembered to get the roll out thing to the curb Monday night. The next challenge is remembering to get the recycle bin to the curb Thursday night.

Are you bored yet? One reason I haven't written recently is that there isn't much to write. Well, Diva got herself suspended the Monday of the last week of school before the winter break, so she effectively gets an extra week of vacation. Don't know if I mentioned that here. Yeah, I was pissed. But it's over now, and we're moving on. Because, really, what else can we do?

I have also been a bit depressed. I don't want to do anything. Nothing is fun. The lead-up to Christmas pisses me off. Although I did enjoy a few Christmas movies. We saw "It's a Wonderful Life" last night. I am glad Christmas is over if only so the commercials and bad music will stop. There will be other annoying commercials, of course, but what can you do?  I'm looking forward to baseball season. About 3.5 months until the season openers. Spring training starts in just over a month, but I'm not sure those preseason games are broadcast on any channels we get. I can at least follow the scores.

Maybe I'll be in a contemplative mood, ready to expound upon meaningful topics soon. Right now I'm going to finish getting Christmas dinner ready.

I hope everyone had a good holiday.