Tradition!
Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:40 pm
Feels too early for Christmas... i know. So deck my halls. We had a weekend off and were chomping at the holiday bit. It's pretty much just one big continuous holiday around here anyway... from pumpkins to turkeys to trees to mistletoe to resolutions... 'Tis the Season. Not gonna lie - we're all about tradition. Not like in a snobbish way. I mean - we have our beliefs, sure... but are probably more unorthodox than most. For example - plenty of families aren't vampires. We are. Apparently... because nobody sleeps around here... especially at NIGHT! Makes me wonder if some might glisten in the sunlight ("Twilight"). But I'm no good at baseball. And I'm not pretty. Hey, maybe I'm the only one who's NOT a vampire! Ya think?
Maybe we're not so different than anyone else. Is it normal for mothers to yell (loudly at the foot of the stairs) - "who wants whole wheat WAFFLES?!" at 4am? I keep wondering why night is really be better than the day. Or is it? If not, then why am i so productive at night? Should we be eating waffles during the daylight like everyone else? What's wrong with us? And why is on-line better than off-line... or is it? Which reality is which? I'm all confused; is it because I don't get enough sleep? These things and more - i ponder.
But I am convinced of one thing: that being different is ok. So when it comes to the Holidays and hanging lights, setting up nativity scenes, downing now our gay apparel, junking up our home all up with shiny, sparkly, glittery, seasonal decor', we're fine with our indifference. In fact, we're slightly resolute. I mean - is it so bad? What's so wrong with joy? None of our neighbors put up lights or do anything. Makes me sad. I know we can never go back. And I'm sad that caroling is dead. I realized that a few nights ago... you can't really go around singing door to door anymore; it might not be the song they like... that just wouldn't be fair.
On second thought - TRADITION!! 
To everyone who wants to greet indifference: warm up your voice, grab a cup of eggnog and let's go caroling! And how'z about a hay ride and a ring-ting tingalin' too. lol. Mostly, I just want Frosty to come back this year. And a BB gun... to shoot a turkey... for Thanksgiving. We're so far ahead of the game.
Anyway - here are a few repetitious images i shot yesterday with my Blackberry... and doctored in PS-CS4 with my brand spanking new 15" LED backlit widescreen 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/ 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 MacBook Pro!
30' up on a wobbly ladder used to scare me to death. People do fall and splat... that's
why I hold the ladder for Weston these days. Think how bad I'd feel if he splatted
and I wasn't even there.
We put the ladder on top of that old crusty MossEisley bus. Note: rock makes the ladder
sorta balanced.
Then - he climbs to the top of mount crumpit.
Kim planted this beautiful tree in the planter box below... so we can't put a ladder
there anymore.
Weston fig'red a way around the problem last year. It worked again.
My x partner in Design thought i'd be faster with a fast computer. Maybe over time, I will
more than pay for it. Holy shizzle... I feel like Orville Wright - and somebody tapped me on the shoulder -
handed me keys to a Stealth bomber. O' the damage i will do. How thankful am I this Thanksgiving?
We live close by... felt the walls/windows shake but didn't know what it was. Funny, one of our bus drivers actually knew what happened/emailed me with news before i knew what it was. It's a small world after-all. Sad for the families of those who lost a loved one or were critically injured.
I got so inspired by comments, i had to snap off a few more.
Ok, you can laugh. We did. Last year Zane cut up a tour poster and made Christmas
ornaments for Eisley. How could we not include them after all he's been through this year?
Every one working so hard. Weston is back on ledges hanging wreaths. Our den is so
junked up. Zane is alive and in our den!!
I keep saying " new news soon" and I mean it. Guess soon is relative. I guess soon means within 6 months (from back in May). Stacy said today - "I'm excited about the holidays and all this... (arms stretched out to all our boxes of ornaments and lights on the tree and fresh coffee that she just brew'd)... but it's just frustrating me because all I really wanna do is make a record..."
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