PhoneBoy Says

Taken yesterday. Posting from LifeBlog on the Nokia N93.

This morning, as you saw earlier, we woke up to snow. I have some videos of the kids sledding down the hill that I will post later. I even took a turn, though that event won't be televised. The snow turned to rain and then, after a few hours, back to snow. The roads up here are going to be a mess, methinks. Jaden's School is starting two hours late tomorrow, if that's any indication.

Meanwhile, we finally had our Thanksgiving feast today. My in-laws were too sick on Thanksgiving proper, so we delayed a couple of days until everyone was well again. Ate a few things I probably should have, namely pie and bread, but it is Thanksgiving dinner.

Yup, that's snow!

Why in the hell does Christmas seem to start before Thanksgiving and end at New Years? It's one day, and oh by the way, it's meant to celebrate the birth of Christ (not that I'm Christian or anything). But yet, I see decorations everywhere--almost none of which relate to Christ. I hear Christmas Music. People are in the holiday spirit. Not to mention the Christmas specials on TV and the Salvation Army ringing the bell outside the large stores and shopping centers.

Perhaps the thing that irritates me the most is Christmas Music. Mostly because I hear it everywhere I go. Good thing I work at home most of the time and don't turn on commercial radio or TV that often.

What gets me through the holidays is demented Christmas songs. Such classics as:

• Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer by Elmo and Patsy
• Christmas at Ground Zero by Weird Al Yankovic
• Christmas Dragnet by Stan Freberg

I know there are others, but I can't think of them because I should be asleep.

What I think I also need to hear is someone like George Carlin rip apart Christmas like he did The Ten Commandments.

And how it's being cooked.

After some discussions with the wife, we decided not to go forward with looking for new houses and instead stick around here. It comes down to a couple of issues:

1. To move where we wanted to, we would have basically had to go broke doing it.

2. There are some major aspects of the process that are outside of our control and have a negative impact, namely the soft housing market in this neighborhood.

We have decided on an alternate plan of action, or at least we said we'd sleep on it. I will share the alternate plan of action when we're a little further in the process, or at the very least, had some sleep. ;)

Sitting together. Not bickering for a moment anyway. :)

What were you afraid of as a child that seems silly to you now?
Submitted by navelgazer.

The "Paramount" logo (and associated music) at the end of television shows. Particularly the ones with the red background that zoomed into a white square with the Paramount logo. The music was downright frightening to me. Heck, I even had nightmares involving the red, scary logos. Watching these closing logos today (and you can thanks to YouTube), I am reminded of how scared I really was. Even to this day, the old Paramount closing logos give me the creeps.

There were, of course, other scary logos, but none of them held a candle to the Paramount ones.

As I posted earlier, we are going to postpone our annual Thanksgiving feast with my in-laws owing to the fact they aren't really eating much right now due to some sort of sickness. It turns out our realtor and my wife's friend who helped her look at houses today is also not doing anything special for Thanksgiving. As a result of that, it looks like we are going to look at some houses tomorrow--on Thanksgiving. We will look at three houses, two of which she's seen already, and one she hasn't that is right across the street from a house we looked at earlier (and loved the neighborhood).

If that doesn't work for some reason, there's always the movie theater. Who knows, we may end up doing both anyway. But there won't be any home-cooked turkey consumed tomorrow. Not until Saturday at least.

Tomorrow's going to be a busy day. Our house is getting it's weekly cleaning, a new garage door opener is going in (fingers crossed), and my wife is off to go look at some houses a little further south with a friend of hers, who as a non-realtor seems to have done a much better job locating acceptable houses than our realtor. Too bad she can't get the commission on one of those houses if we do end up buying one of them. Jaden is also coming home early tomorrow since it's the last day of school before Thanksgiving.

After all that, I may want a nap but who knows what will happen.