Back to the grind...

So here we are, the crazy slow weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. You spend your hard earned money, run around in the snow to get gifts for friends and family. It can get a little out of hand.. So that's why tonight i will partake in my "Two weeks before christmas" tradition. I get drunk. I mean what else is there to do? You can't go outside to do much of anything if you don't want the hanging parts of your body to freeze off. You probably spend too much this past weekend and have no more money to go shopping. so i say, throw on your favorite yule log fire DVD and fix yourself a few rounds of your favorite adult beverage and watch the flames flicker the same way as last year. It's a grand time, trust me.

So, the countdown is on, and santa has made his list and should be, if my calculations are correct, checking it for a second time right about now. They are calling for a larger snow storm than the one we had last week, which wasn't much as all as far as Colorado standards go. To sound like a true coloradoian, i should say it will be good to get snow because we need the moisture, but to be honest, i could give a hoot about the moitsture, i don't want snow and i don't want cold weather.. Looks like i picked the wrong state for that.

I will pack up my family's gifts tonight and my goal is to have them in the mail by tomorrow afternoon. It will be nice to get that off the list and done. Then we have to get our tree out (fake of course, i can't see a good reason to chop down a tree and drag it inside) so we have a small treel with lights already on it, so it is ready to go.. We decorated our porch this past weekend.

Not much else to report so here's the daily celebrations if my suggestion for getting drunk tonight wasn't enough, here are some other reasons to tip the glass.

Today is John Lennon Remembrance Day. (see, great think to toast a drink to)

Today is Winter Flowers Day. (I’ll drink to that)

Tonight is Be Someone’s Pillow While You Watch TV Night. (can do that drunk?)

Today is National Brownie Day. (only if they are made with rum, right???)

Today is Beach Day in Uruguay, Lady of Camarin Day in Guam, and Constitution Day in Uzbekistan. (nothing better to do on the beach than drink.. right????)

Today is the Feast of Immaculate Conception, the Roman Catholic Holy Day of Obligation. A public holiday in Nicaragua. ( and when I was a good little student at my Catholic High School this meant that WE GOT THE DAY OFF!!!- so now as an adult, I will drink)