- Praise Jebus!
Christmas is over, thanks be to whomever may be up there. Honestly, its probably my least favorite holiday. Well, not entirely true. I just hate the pressure to spend like a billion dollars on worthless crap. If the mega xtians wanna bitch about a war on christmas, their first battle should be against consumerism instead of folks that dare say "happy holidays". Seriously, Jesus was all about compassion and giving to the poor and such, how bouts next year all the "Christians" forego the malls and instead go through their closets and donate say 15% of the contents to homeless shelters. THAT would be in line with the spirit of christmas. Now, before basking in the glow of my xmas schwag, I must inform you that one of the gifts that my inlaws gave the darling gf consisted of "homeless kits" with gloves and hats and baby wipes and such, and she was totally geeked about it, so I'm totally covered in the whole charity thing by way of association.
Now, on to more important matters. Like my NEW KITCHENAID!!!! Well actually it is technically our new KitchenAid, but gf got homeless kits, so I am claiming it. Don't be hatin, yo.
I also got fleece pj pants, a pop up Stephen King book (!), a bunch of regular books, a See and Say ornament (that actually sees and says), an awesome print, and I'm sure some other stuff that I have forgotten to mention. We had a good day, even though it was a bit rushed and hectic. All in all glad to be done with it. Now I just gotta get through new years and life will be peachy.
In internet-connectivity-at-home news, I have a mixed report. Verizon came out the morning of christmas eve and fixed their flub, so I do have internet. However, the wireless router portion of the modem/router combo they sent me died almost immediately, so I gotta call em back and bitch some more. Luckily I have the router I used with my cable connection, so I can still use the laptop. Yay!