The Holidays

[talktooloose]

The holidays began tensely and ended tensely but in between, they were most pleasant. Notes from the holidays:

• Got adequate sleep


• Made good food including lamb casseroles and cheesecake


• Wrote fiction


• Read books and comic books, including The Elvis Costello biography, Complicated Shadows and volumes of Jack Kirby's Third World and Mike Allred's Madman. Also, New X-Men: Childhood's End Vol. 1-3


• Saw lots of movies, notably The Dead Girl (highly recommended), Sense and Sensibility, Hellboy, Spider-Man 3, Sweeney Todd, The Golden Compass. Unfortunately, we found M. Night Shyamalamadingdong's The Village in the library and foolishly watched it. I will go on and on about how bad it is upon request.


• Edited video with my youngest nephew while his older brother was upstairs making blintzes with Snake


• Got together with family several times and was not angst-ridden about it.


• Redid two rooms with new vinyl flooring


• Bought sensible and ridiculous shoes, new blankets and a new mirror


• Downloaded the Champ's original version of "Tequila"

Things that weren't so good:

• I didn't see or speak to friends hardly at all. I was a fucking hermit.


• Snake's cholestrol numbers came back high and he's worried, though information online seems highly contradictory


• I didn't finish Chapter 18 of DOB. It was a bugger to get the first half right but I think I've managed it


• Our cat seems to have decided to die. He won't eat but the vet can't find anything wrong with him.


• The snow was awesome, this thaw sucks