Not doing much today. I did go to the gym, got a very good workout in inspite of the treadmills. My favorite was taken….rats Got to see the gym trainers bring a guy back after he left while leaving #125 dumbbells on the floor for people to trip over them. How lazy?!? But they told him to put them away…grin I totally enjoyed that.
The roads were a ghost town on the way to the gym, on the way home…..totally different. Hubby over did it this week, developed a muscle cramp in his hamstring. Hope to get back at it Mon. We need to head down town PDX next week for the court house for a dry run to deal with traffic and learning a new area for his jury duty. That is so going to be fun….NOT……
We tried going to the store…..parking lot said no way….came home. We’ll go Mon/Tues.
Totally looking forward to tomorrow. Got a bunch of little things for hubby, can’t wait for him to open them. Nothing much, but love putting a smile on his face. Sent a gift to Sandi, I’ve been avoiding calling her because I can’t trust myself to give it away……lol I’m horrible.
When I can actually think of gifts to give, that is my favorite thing….but I swear I’m more excited then receiver when they open it…….lol
I love this time of the year and I’m so not religious. I hate to break it to you religious folks, but a lot of these traditions started long before your religion. Christ had good lessons that people do not follow and are hypocrites of. Historically, he is interesting…..
But the traditions that we practice are from winter solstice and pagan traditions…. a lot of them from Germany…the tree being one example of it. Which is why I love this time of year…..reminds me of my childhood there. I may have left there when I was 7….but it left a lot of happy impressions on me.
We were broke, so it wasn’t loaded with a ton of gifts, but we always had a special time with family. That is what always counted. We would go for drives to see all the lights that the Germans put up, Mom would read the Xmas story from the bible just before bed, Melinda and I would be totally too excited…..wake up by 4 am, sneak out and see all the presents, feel our stockings and wonder how much change and candy were in there. Then try and keep ourselves from waking mom and dad up…..we never got past 5-6am…..lol….poor mom and dad.
It was one day of the year we didn’t fight….lol…. Played with our things and crash together on one of our beds. By the time I hit school age, I was odd….I loved getting new clothes, almost more then the toys. Something new to wear to school.
Mom and dad always made it special because when you have a b-day around xmas, it sucks…..people give you only 1 present for both your bday and xmas, if they remember at all. You almost never have parties due to the holidays. I got one when I was about 4/5 at daycare….that is where I was given my german nutcracker that I still have to this day. It has had it arms glued back on over the years, but I still have it.  =)
I usually recommend people, don’t have kids around the holiday…it usually bites. But I was lucky when it came to my folks. =)
They’d tell me how they had to take mom to the hospital Xmas eve, they sent her home saying it was false labor, then the next day they had to go back and dad ran out of gas following the ambulance on the autobahn….LOL Poor mom, didn’t have me until the day after and burnt the cornish hens she had put into the oven the 1st time she went to the hospital. When I moved to Purdue, my folks called me at midnight to wish me happy bday….lol
When it comes to the holidays, even with the grumblings and the stress arguments that broke out leading the weeks before, my folks loved the holidays almost more then us kids. They are sounding a little lost this Xmas eve since the grandkids are at their mom’s and not home with them. They haven’t been by themselves since ’72…the year before I was born….lol Just got a text from mom, sounds like dad got called into work…..at least it is double time, all the gifts for the kids are already wrapped….so it is little different this year.
I just really felt like sharing my holiday feelings, not sure why else I wrote it……lol
Hope everyone has a great Holiday!
