3 years and merry christmas

Three years ago I started out this little adventure. I look back now at 538 posts and tens of thousands of page visits and find it a bit hard to believe so many people stopped by to read what I've written. I find it hard to believe I've written so much. I was planning on ending this blog today, I've had the final post written for a few weeks now, but I'm not quite ready yet, I have a couple more posts to tap out before riding off into the sunset...

So for now, a recap and a song for the holidaze...

Tomorrow is Terry's birthday, nothing big planned, just a nice dinner out and a friend or two tagging along. She's not big on celebrating (I think we all feel that way the older we get, right?)

We'll be cleaning the house during the day tomorrow as well, in preparation for the arrival of her two oldest children who are flying in from California on Christmas Eve. Her son is having some issues, not unlike my daughter's BF, who left me an interesting voice mail last month, and well, that's one of the topics I'm going to write about before I sign off here. Funny, as my first real post was about my daughter and her BF three years ago.

As I write this, it is snowing outside, just flurries, but hopefully it won't melt before Christmas. I've always joked about how any year that we have a green Christmas up here in the "snow country" I demand a refund... I'm sitting in our "office room" in my dad's old easy chair (don't smirk SG) watching several squirrels scamper around on our deck and the back yard as well. Terry's dog as been given the Indian name Dances With Squirrels because he loves to chase them around.

Just a couple more days of work, a very little bit of shopping to do, and two more presents to wrap. Life is good this Christmas. There could be things that would make it even nicer, but unfortunately they are beyond my control to change, and that is what it is...their loss, sadly.

It's time for me to go sell some cell phones (or babysit a store, depending on the customer flow).

I want to wish all my friends here a very Merry Christmas (or Happy Christmas to my UK and Aussie friends) and the best for a healthy and happy New Year. A special shout out to XL who is spending Christmas down under, and making me jealous as well ;)

I leave you with a warped Christmas song from my favorite movie, Love Actually.