Merry Christmas!

I hope that you are all having a wonderful Christmas. I did. I'm at my parent's house and I already had my 'Christmas' at 8:30 PM on Christmas Eve. My family has a wonderful tradition of eating supper, getting bundled up and driving around looking at lights for about an hour while listening to Christmas music, and then heading back to my parents where Santa has already visited and opening our gifts. I got into Brookings at about 11- picked up both of my nieces and spent the day with them. The baby is so sweet- looks a lot like her sister did. She is so cute- and she is starting to smile in response to people (especially me). Babies are a lot of work- but damn I want one. I'm just so good with them, some people are really athletic, some really good with math- me, I entertain and take care of children really well. So I bopped around the house with both my nieces- because Samantha slept a lot I could spend a lot of time with Taylor. Anyway, this year is the last year for the gravy train of presents for my older niece- since the baby is so new she has already gotten a lot of stuff, so it was hard to 'spoil' her, and her sister Taylor had about half the presents under the tree. She is spoiled- rotten- and the sad part is that she is getting more tomorrow at home and at her other side of the family. Anyway- just had to talk about that. It just upsets me because she doesn't ever want to play with anything when she is around me- it just seems like a waste of good toys. Alright- I'll stop.

Anyway I got a good amount of stuff- stuff that you give women who are 25 and single- the 'wedding gifts' kind of stuff. A toaster, a crock pot. It's like they decided that they might as well give it to me now- because I might never get married. I kid....?...... I also got the first two seasons of Sex and the City and the best of Will Ferrell on SNL. I'm sure I got more- just having trouble thinking of what- oh yeah- my parents had already bought me a microwave.

I had to work for 12 hours on Monday- and 11 hours on Tuesday- so I got Wednesday off. Mind you that is working with children for that amount of time- not like sitting on my ass in front of a computer or something like that. So I of course have Christmas Day off- and it will surely be weird tomorrow because I have nothing to do- and I left my cat at home in SF- so I feel guilty and I'm missing her. I am cutting myself off from computer because I am babbling like a brook. I'm sure I'll talk more tomorrow.