Holiday Randomness

We're heading into 72 hours of madness.  Peace on earth, my ass.  Running, visiting.  The child has double ear infections.

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We've been fighting a battle here at home against a formidable enemy.  Ants.  The ants, people, they are taking over.  Every room.  One here, one there, then millions.  I have the cutest candy cane wrapping paper and I got mini candy canes to tie into each ribbon and I haven't done it because, the ants, they swarm.  When I find a swarm I grab the Raid and spray away.  Then I leave the little corpses there for a while as a warning to the other ants.  My countertops look like an aerial view of the beaches at Normandy. 

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You have got to be fucking kidding me. 

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There is something that is tiring me.  I am tired of feeling like I can't identify myself as a Christian because people will think I'm discriminatory and narrow-minded.  Can't I be a liberal AND a Christian?  I feel like the neo-religious freaks are making the rest of us look bad and it is pissing me off.

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I have struggled with something else this holiday season.  I didn't just make a buck stretch -- I made it scream.  I put it on the rack and stretched it out, then laid it on a bed of tacks and did the Mexican hat dance on it.  I've spent less not just on my own family but on the kids of everyone I know.  It was really hard.  I feel guilty.  Usually at Christmas I've spent tons of money on DJ and never even needed a list -- I always know what to get him.  He ends up feeling like he couldn't surprise me.  We've had some role reversal this year.  I am learning humility.

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I probably won't do much updating over the next 10 days or so.  We're going to the Georgia Aquarium and I may post a few pictures from there.  My Mom is coming to visit and she and Sweet Pea are very taken with each other -- DJ and I will, hopefully, be able to slip out for a couple of movies.

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By the way?  3.5 GPA.  Two A's, two B's.  One C, but that was my lab and it was only one credit hour.  I want to do better next semester.  I know -- nobody asks your GPA after you graduate.  All that matters is getting the piece of paper.  But I want it for ME.  I want to do well for myself.  Which, if you ask me, is about the best reason of all.

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Merry Christmas, Internet.  Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa.  Peace on earth and goodwill to men in the name of God, Goddess, All That Is.  Warmest holiday wishes from our house to yours.

Comments

[MetroDad]

Hope you have a fantastic holiday, Stacy. Best wishes to you and the family during the Christmas season! And if I don't "speak" to you, have agreat New Years as well!

(P.S. Ahem...by the way? Your grades? Once again, you worried too early in the semester. As always, you kicked some serious ass. Way to go! Keep up the great work!)

[Jason]

Hy-dee-ho! Hope you guys have a Merry Christmas! And Windex is DA BOMB for killing ants; it kills them and erases the scent trail they leave for their compadres to find them.

[Closs]

Merry Christmas to you and yours Miss Stacy! All the best!

oh and congrats on the grades girl...you deserve it! :)

[PS]

Merry Christmas, Stacy!