12/16/05 Christmas Time!

Wow, Christmas is just a week away. Got most of my Christmas cards out, couple more to send out tomorrow. I'll be leaving here for Southern Calif. On Saturday the 24th, and getting into Ontario, Ca. about 7pm. The Christmas eve party at Daryl & Angie's (son and daughter-in-law's) will have been going on for hours at that point, and will probably be winding down.
Oh well, I'll be pretty tired at that point anyway.
This week at work has been a bit hetic, We've got a lot of stuff that has to ship before we break for the holidays. And, a couple of people have had to be out because of "Family problems". So the rest of us have had to pick up the pace to get things done, and shipped. But so far so good, we're gittin it done.
I wanted to get some pictures on here showing how this town decorates for the holidays, but my pictures were far from showing how pretty it is. I'll put up one, but forgive my inability to capture the holiday spirit here.
I've stalled out a bit on working on my bathroom addition, it's been so cold that I'd just rather stay close to the heater when I'm home. But there's no real rush anyway, it will get done, when it gets done.
I hope that all is going well for you this holiday season. That your not feeling the stress that seems to be a part of the "season". And that you will spend some quality time with family and friends. I wish I could be with all that I love, and am close to this holiday season, but to those of you that I'm not with, know that I'm with you in my heart.
Have a Merry Christmas, and may the New Year bring you even more than you wish for!
Bob.

Just Checking in!

Do you remember me mentioning the Blog I've been following for the last 6 months or so, called the "Adventures of Tioga And George"? Well I log in every few days, and note his "hit" meter. The amount of views his blog has accumulated. I checked in last night at 9:30 pm. Then tonight at 8:00 pm. His blog had 1762 views in less than 11 hours! I find that amazing.

Tonight I drove through town on my way home from work. This town really dresses up for the holidays, I'll make a point to go downtown and take some pictures of the holiday decorations, they are great. They have large Christmas cards with fiberoptic lighting that were commissioned by a local bank owner, and community activist named Brady Adams. The Christmas cards were made by the company I now work for. Each sign has speakers mounted on top of them, and play Christmas music. The town also has life sized toy soldiers on the sidewalks down main street (which is 6th street), and of course the normal tinsel and wreath decorations. If you want to check out the Christmas Cards, go to this website,
www.magicalmurals.com. To those I've already sent that link to, never mind.

Last week we had our first snow of the year, just an inch or so, but it was pretty cool to look out my door that night and see snow.


I hope everyone's holiday season is progressing nicely, and that "holiday stress" is not part of your experience.I know that I experience that stress every year because I'm never prepared. I procrastinate every year, and every year I tell my self that next year I'll take care of things early. But I never do. This year I've decided to put off feeling guilty about it till next year. "Procrastinators never die, they just keep putting it off." We'll see how long that works for me.

Talk to you later, Bob.