peace on earth and pass the eggnog...

just running about ramping up for the christmas festivities on the horizon...

there is someone here fixing our heater, A REAL HEATER FIXER PERSON...GASP!...so at least my christmas wish of being warm may or may not come true...

i don't hear much banging or swearing, though...not a good sign...for some reason when i hear banging and swearing while home repair work is being done it puts me at ease...

professionals...whatever...

and of course the lord of the ring made his way back to us and will be home for a week after christmas...

really, what more could a girl ask for?

don't ask.

anyhow, i'm making martha's eggnog again this year...it calls for 3 cups of bourbon, 2 cups of cognac, and 1/2 a cup of rum...

and that's just my serving!...buh dump bump!

no really, when i first saw martha making it on t.v. years and years ago, she was pouring all this alcohol in and said

"now i know this seems like a lot of alcohol...but really, if you just think about it like adding extra vanilla to a recipe for the flavor it makes sense"

i've been making it ever since...

but now i must go to target and the craft store two days before christmas in a demographic that must be seen to be believed...

if you don't hear from me by monday you must assume that i have been brainwashed and abducted and am somewhere in a christmas themed sweatshirt drinking some concoction of hot apple flavored liquor mixed with sprite and topped with whipped cream and gathered around an only slightly thawed sheet cake from the freezer where it's been staying since being leftover from my *new* sister in law's wedding the summer before that someone has cleverly written "happy birthday jesus!" on and because i've never gotten to before, they let ME light the candles!...then we all sing happy birthday to jesus and everyone claps...only the joke's on jesus because we get all the gifts...

happy kwanzaa
merry christmas
happy hanukkah

x.