Tell us about your Christmas

[Chum]

Tell us what you're going to do or what you did, depending on which side of the holiday you're on.
Or just craft a barely legible cry for help. Include your phone number if you want a call with a feigned emergency.

Today's plan was to drop a rumcake and a flavored pork roast at the in-laws today.  sidebar: Huzzah to #5's first ever booze buy. First out of all his siblings, afaik.
However the rum cake didn't work out so we punted to a homemade pizza and no roast. Then we couldn't coordinate schedules w/ the inlaws who are endlessly busy so eh.

For Christmas day, me + adult sons #3,#4,#5 are here all day. #1 is working until mid afternoon. #2 moved to Philly and is living the sort of awesome life that just happens when you escape FL. 
#3 is tapping out a broken bolt from the block of the 92 Buick and installing the water pump assembly. Unless he gets it done today. I'm itchy w/o a couple of spare cars around. 
Maybe I'll dig out the 61 Sunliner tomorrow and guage it's road readiness. 

I'm gifting myself a larger bedroom tomorrow, given that #2 has moved out.  I might work a bit remotely, migrate a camera system over to a box w/ an AI processor and play with that. 
We're all doing Chinese take-out when #1 gets home.

past that.  I'm toying with the idea of a daily music post here. It's a month of artists you've never heard of.   I'm not sure where it would fall on the obnoxious <-> welcome scale tho. 

Oh and Speaking of the world's worst advent calendar: 
We're all finally over a week+ of crud where every day was a different symptom. Happy for that.


Happy ever-lengthening days to you, yours, everyone and everyone else.
And happy ever warming days to those of us still in FL.  
This was two hours ago.

 

[Rain]

We had 2 of our kid's and spouse/girlfriend for our traditional appetizer grazing dinner. They left earlier than expected because 1 couple is headed to her parent's house a couple of hours away.

Tomorrow it will just be me and my husband as the other couple is going to his parent's. Traditionally since moving to AZ we have done Chinese, but with just us I don't know if I want to call around to find one open - I called quite a few last year before finding one. My husband will probably work on our bathroom cabinets that he is building.  I'll probably organize a room.  We are good with that as Christmas Eve is the night I really like to have family things.  I light up the plac with Christmas lights and it just sets the mood.