Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to the few who might come across this tiny little blog. I hope everyone has a great Christmas and a super New Year. Since I made such a big fuss about putting up lights on my house I will get some pics and post them, provided they come out well. I will have the better half take them since he does a better job of stuff like that.

Well, this christmas should be interesting as we are having it at our house for the first time. I don't know what came over me earlier this year when the subject of christmas came up, but it just poured out of my mouth like vocal vomit. (sorry for that mental image) I just figured that we had been in our house for about 5 years now and had yet to have any major event there. Also, John and I are the only ones who bother to put up a tree and decorate the house and all that good stuff. My grandparents put up a tree, but it is one of those ceramic deals and I don't really count that as a Christmas tree. It is a Christmas decoration, but it is just not the same to gather around a 12" tall ceramic tree and celebrate Christmas. Plus, we have such a large extended family now since we have the two families together (my grandmother becomes almost unbearable with large groups in her house) that it just makes more sense to have them all join at our house. That way when my grandmother gets in her mood I can remind her that she is no longer on her turf and she does not call the shots. I know that sounds kind of rude and mean, but if you knew her you would understand completely. Luckily we still have Johns mom living with us and she is a wonderful cook and really gets into cooking all that stuff, so we will not have to worry about all that. With the three of us we are going to pull off a great dinner. We were even lucky enough to get the last Turducken. For those of you who thought I just spoke some foreign language there, a Turducken is a boneless turkey stuffed with a boneless duck which is then stuffed with a bonelss chicken and then stuffed with some excellent stuffing. It started somewhere in Louisiana and my Aunt and Uncle from New Orleans would always have one or bring one with them. Well they finally made it across the state line into Texas and you can buy them at H.E.B. or Wal-Mart. They don't have many of them so to get one is a great feat indeed. For those who have no idea what H.E.B. is, it is a large Southern/Central Texas grocery chain. Almost the only grocery chain there is around here anymore. Every time one opens up in a town/city all the other grocery stores close down. They only competition they have now days is from all the super Wal-Mart's that open up. The super Wal-Mart's are another story all their own. We have two that are only three miles apart from each other out of the 5 or so that are in our area.

OK, so after everything is said and done, hopefully there will be some pretty interesting things to write about. As soon as I have time and get my thoughts together I will post some of the better things or all of them, just depends on how interesting things get and how evil my grandmother gets.

So, once again just want to say have a Merry Christmas. Hope that Santa is good to you and you get everything on your list. Don't drink too much egg nog and take care if you are having to travel out of town for the holidays.