we're cleaning the dishes me and my spouse,
rock and roll blaring heat turned to “high”
the shutters are pulled hiding overcast skis.
It's almost over the trauma and the hype of this holiday season. We are digging out. Today is the observed holiday of Christmas, the holiday devoutly wished for by those in the workforce. This also means no mail garbage collection—that's OK it's just a limbo day. I really would rather for tomorrow or some other workday to go to the movies or back out to restaurant land. To many people because of said holiday observation. I have staqye3 up too late the last couple of evenings. Christmas Eve dianne spent with Aunie( all night) and I blog surfed to after 2:00 and last night Mark A came over and we visited till late—lots of Christmas stress going on out there. I wish I could say I was immune to the Christmas emotional bullies. Reading some of the blogs I regularly follow I see many other folks have been feeling the stress of too much (or too little)family, presents or time. Most of the blogs I read mentioned how quickly the holidays have come and gone having to return to work tomorrow. Me, on the other hand took the week off and I hope I can keep from going crazy. I took the hours because I really had too. I think I would rather be working in the solace of my office. I do have things I could be doing.
I have a ham I bought Christmas Eve, I think I'll cook the ham some time this week but remember, I took home the leftover ham from the office's catered event. So, I am kinda sick of ham, we just had roast beef and Turkey is still on hold from Thanksgiving. Maybe I should just eat salads or go out to dinner. Dianne also has a salmon stuffed in the fridge which needs some serious attention. We went to our favorite Vietnamese restaurant on Saturday and has some great food. So, thus far we have done mex, Vietnamese, we could still do Red Lobster or Macaroni Hell and quite enjoy ourselves. This would mean having to dress up or at least get dressed and socialize. In fact one of the kids gave us a gift certificate to a high end restaurant group here in town giving us all kinds of options.
So, I have started The Stand, Stephen King. I cannot say it's a great read or even good one yet—there is something about the first fifty or sixty pages which reminds me of “Outbreak” or some other disease disaster movie. I'll give the book a few more hundred pages before I make a final decision. This is the part of Christmas I really like: Long afternoons reading in over heated rooms drifting off to nap only to wake and start all over...happy holidays!
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