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Well, the holidays are officially here. We can declare it offical now, because I’ve begun taunting Stinker for Christmas. This is a greatly beloved sport and tradition at our house. Even though she’s all grown up in many ways, she still has that kid’s spirit of Christmas, and it’s fun as Hell. It also makes taunting her fun as Hell.

It goes something like this:

“Oh Baiiiiilllllleeeeyyyyyyy….guess what? I got the first Christmas present I ordered today. One for you! I got a Christmas present here, in the house. For you. In this very house! It is soooooooooo coooooolll! You’re going to love it. You won’t believe how cool it is. It’s the coolest gift ever given in all time and space. I can’t wait to give it to you! Don’t you wonder what it is? Wait a minute…I forgot….hmmmm. Oh wait. It’s a…ooops! Almost said it. That wouldn’t have been good! Almost forgot, but now I remember. How could I forget such a cool gift?” I could go on and on like this, of and on, for days at a time. Just ask her.

She flips me off. I’m laughing my ass off. She’s trying not to laugh, a little, to keep up with her righteously indignant routine but she can’t pull it off very well. She doesn’t do a convincing grumpy most of the time. Fortunately, she doesn’t seem to want to.

“Forget it,” she declares. “I can wait. I don’t care. Christmas will come soon enough. I am not doing that this year. I don’t care.”" Neither of us believe her, any more than we believe she’ll want to sleep in until 10am on Christmas day. I didn’t think to offer that whole “time starts moving faster as you get older” phenomena could work in her favor in this situation.  ”

I laugh and laugh and laugh. Of course she cares. That’s the fun of it: both the teasing and the presents. What she’d never admit is that she enjoys the teasing almost as much as the Christmas part. She’d swear it drives her nuts. And maybe it does a little, but it doesn’t, too.

Of course, I’d never say she likes the teasing as much as the actual presents. She’d faint or something.

I had a text conversation the other day and it was testy. With my kid. I’ve noticed almost all of these conversations we have end up that way, provided they last more than five minutes and go beyond the 3 W’s: “Work, weather and Well-gotta-go.” Without fail, I end up offending her. I won’t say it’s without cause, because it’s not, although I don’t see it the same way. But I’ll cope to being hard to take in certain circumstances, and readily identify this as one of ‘em.

And while I wasn’t thrilled about how it worked out, I don’t know of a better way to handle it, either. And honestly, I’m not sure I should try to find one.

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 HAPPY - Fuckin’ -  THANKSGIVING, folks! Hope everyone had a nice time. I did. I’m tired, but had a good day.

I like Thanksgiving, despite the fact that it’s a fair amount of work for me. Lotsa food and I am the one who normally cooks it. But it is cool to have a special holiday just for appreciating what you’ve got. I like that. That’s important and easy to overlook.

My son came to spend the day with us this year. I thought it was going to be his birthday, but got confused. (My Outlook showed Thxgvg on the 23rd instead of 22nd, and I got confused. If it’s not in my Outlook, it doesn’t exist in my world, so you can understand the problem.)

He brought us a cool painting–an original, of course.   
I’ll take a picture of it and post it later.

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got a new place for buying cigarettes. $10/carton plus $3 shipping. there is a wait to get ‘em (coming from sweden, the ones i got), but for smokers, a good deal. if you order through the link, i get i discount next time.

ok, it’s not in a popup window because i haven’t fixed the security filter not letting me do that, but here is my time lapse work video i was playing around with… in quicktime .mov format.

 my day…

 Well, what we happen to have here absolutely must be the world’s most adorable Halloween Kitten, dontcha think? I mean, heck. I’m not baised or anything. Just because I’m her Auntie Goddess doesn’t mean a thing, really. I can be objective..

Fortunately, I don’t need to. (Click on the thumbnails for a larger size.)

well, i tried to post a roomba video and a time lapse experiment of me working. (kinda silly). but my new security filters in place won’t let me, so i have to track down the error and figure out how to disable it for what i’m doing.

great. something new to figure out, man. just want i need.