My Christmas (A Story)

Over all, my Christmas was good. That is until the emotions of the day reached a boiling point and came flooding over the rim of my mind and out my eyes.

My two nieces were sick on Christmas. Nothing major but running temps which made my 3 year niece K. feels chilled and be just cranky enough to put everyone a bit on edge.

After all had opened presents and after dinner, my sister told K she could spend the night with Poppi and Grandma (my parents), this made K very happy.

My sister then realized that there was a person (still not quite sure who this person is/was that K had to go see so she tried to convince K to go home with her. K wanted nothing to do with this and she became more and more agitated and crying. This made my mother upset and started to get to me.

I reached my boiling point when after my mother had told my sister to just take K and go because no matter what K was going to cry and be very upset, my sister just sat there so I took things into my own hands and took K to the car, her screaming the whole time. I put her in the booster seat and tried to close the door but she would not let go of my hand and arm. At this point I started to bawl like a baby myself. After K let go I ran into the house about the time my sister and her boyfriend were yelling at each other.

Long story long, they decided at that moment to let K stay at my parents house. My sister then started to cry like a baby because she had upset K and my mother and I.

AH, I love the holidays!

Merry merry!

But all turned out OK and so far I have not come down with what the nieces had.... although with the stress from the holiday and work, I think it's only a mater of time.

So if you had a quiet day like a few of my friends did, lucky you... but hey I did get the digital camera I wanted and as said before it was a nice weekend and Christmas until the boiling point and at least I have family even if they drive me crazy every now and then.

Thanks for being my family people in my family, and for those of you in my extended family I thank you as well. I love all of you and can't wait to spend some boiling points with you!

OK maybe not boiling points but time and fun things together!

Sondheim on Acid!!!

I just got back from seeing the new Tim Burton take on Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

I give it two big bloody thumbs up!

While I miss the Chorus and a few minor songs, the visual bleakness of Burton's London and the most excellant acting of Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter and the brillent casting of Alan Rickman as the evil Judge Turpin (you actually end up rooting for Sweeney to kill him!) all make for a wild blood filled ride of the darkest kind.

Can't wait to go see it again!

Sometimes....

you just wanna punch a co-worker in the face. How can the senior person on my team who has been doing what I do for a hell of a lot longer make so many mistakes and try to blame them on me???


WATCH OUT BITCH!

Holidaze...

It's funny how your moods and temperments wane and wax in December as the holidays go one and on. As some loved ones get into the spirit I move in and out almost minute to minute. From wanting to crawl into a hole one moment to sing some carol at the top of my lungs and giggling the next, I wonder how crazy I really am.

I try to remember that even in the most non-religious way the holidays are really about giving and spening time with loved ones but then again I get caught up in the monetary gifts that I want to give others becasue I think it will make them happy and I know that it makes me happy to see them happy..... nothing wrong there I guess.

Of course it doesn't help maters that my work becomes the caziest this time of year and I am expecdted to put in many extra hours which are just so short to come by this special time of year. But it will be over in a few short days and then we will move on into a new year with new hopes and et ceteras.

Mindless Musings about Mormons

Not since my Sects and Cults class in college have I heard so many musings about Mormons. I myself think that the Chursh of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) is nothing more than a christian sect. Maybe not a full blown cult but there are many things about LDS that do not sit right with me.

If you don't know much about LSD do a bit of web surfing and read about the history of the beleifs. It's almost as entertaining as the Scientology.

I love the part about LDS is that the leader of the church is a profit of Jesus.

If I believed in a god, why would I think that just because a person is elected as head of a church that it makes you right hand person to Jesus.

Bring It On.....

The fall has come and gone. Winter officially begins next week which means the daylight will once again grow longer until the flowers break the cold ground and our lives will be filled with nature.

Lots of changes have happened. People moving away, people making changes, people changing themselves and people being people and making changes all shake my world and reshape it into something that hopefully will be, like The Six Million Dollar Man, stronger, better and faster.

As the change engulfs us I strive to remember how lucky I am and those around me are. We have our health, we have people who love us and we all have the means to live lives of little strife.

The holidays and winter are often times troubling for many people and I think it almost normal to be ill prepared for all the emotions and hecticness that has become the Holidays of a modern world. I do what I can and will get the shopping done and hopefully spend some time with those family/friends who help make me a whole person. The spring will come and then the summer then fall and winter again...

Time for some hot chocalate and perhaps a bit of on-line poker while wathcing the end of "Pushing Up Daisies."

Happy Happy and Merry Merry to you all and to all a good night!