X-mas 2006

The presents are all bought (though not all wrapped - *sigh*), the tree is up (and decorated - can’t beat that!), Mitch and Sayaka are coming in tomorrow (yaaay!), and all packages are sent - it is now officially wind-down time. We made it. Next year, everyone is getting sent X-mas presents in October.

I took Liam out in his stroller to the post office yesterday laden with packages to New York. We got in line and were only there a few minutes when Liam decides it’s a good time to start crying. I will say, in his defense, that I had the stroller completely covered with packages so that it was pitch black inside so that couldn’t have been to fun. So I got out of line, went over to Carl and Siri’s, dropped Liam off and went back to the Post Office. Met a lady there who only wanted to buy stamps, but she discovered she was a dime short. I offered her my dollar, but when she tried to use it, the screem flashed, “Use Coins Only”. She started into this sort of hysterical laughter that was either, “I’m laughing like this so that no one gets killed” or, “I give up, bring on the hard liquor”. I felt for her. She had to stand in line, at the post office, on the busiest shipping day of the year, to get change - one stinking dime.

I guess this is the time of year I’m supposed to reflect - upon the previous year, and what I learned. I’m a forward-thinking man, however, always look ahead, the future’s bright, all that jazz. That and I’ve forgotten much of everything. I remember Liam, obviously. And I seem to remember being poked and prodded by doctors more that I would have liked - plus a bonus trip to the emergency room, but all in all, it’s pretty much blank. Things I’m looking forward to in 2007:

• Lots of Liam firsts
• Moving! Somewhere else!
• Starting Massage Therapy school
• Frank Miller’s “300″
• Flying Cars and Robots!

Ok so that last one is made up.