Christmas. And also a giant pile of yard waste.
By Melissa | December 15, 2008
So! Christmas is upon us. I am going to hop on the blogging bandwagon at Rayd and write about how the Christmas season is going for me lately. The series of Christmas-related events thus far:
- Josh’s grandmother comes to visit, and one of the first things she says is “I hear your mom is getting you a sewing machine for Christmas!…Oops. Was I not supposed to tell you that?”
- I have one of Josh’s presents shipped to the house, and first thing he does when it arrives is say, “Hey, what’s this?” and freaking opens it. After I had warned him a present for him was coming, so please-don’t-ruin-Christmas-and-open-any-parcels-addressed-to-me.
- I make lovely, personalized, Zoë-themed Christmas cards and then drop them face down in a puddle in the Walgreen’s parking lot.
- The place from which I ordered another gift from Josh sends a freaking invoice with the name of the shop in giant letters plastered across the envelope.
If there’s one aspect of Christmas that I get really, really into, it’s surprises. I love to be surprised, and I love being surprised. So after all the various surprises have been ruined, I was feeling very Scrooge-like. And I may have cried a little about the cards. The only thing I can figure out that’s the cause of this misfortune is our Christmas tree. It’s the only Christmas-related object that we haven’t had in previous years. It’s like, the Christmas tree had so much Christmas cheer, that it collapsed in upon itself and instead became a black hole of Christmas spirit. Yes. I have it all worked out.
In other non-Christmas news, I finally obtained my CCNA this past week. It’s not really that spectacular of a certification, but it does make me a little bit more marketable. I just have to take a moment to brag: out of two exams, I only missed one question.
Also? I finally got up the nerve to ask my boss about a raise. Apparently I missed quite a bit of drama while I was away at CCNA bootcamp (yes, that’s what they call it), so to make a long story short, the timing was perfect. He could only give me a 4% raise at the moment, but he said he would probably be able to maybe adjust it again sometime in 2009. It’s not much, but it’s a start. Mostly I’m just proud of myself for working up the nerve to do it.
Time for the obilgatory dog picture. This one is for scale–please observe the completely ridiculous size of this 6 month old puppy, for the love of Pete:
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And then take that picture and apply it to this picture, for scale:
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That, my friends, is the result of having umpteen oak trees in your backyard. And this isn’t even all of the leaves. Some aren’t in the picture, and the rest Josh burned with the assistance of our Bosnian neighbor. Next week the Bosnian neighbor is bringing us meat he smoked in his backyard. No joke. It’ll probably take Josh awhile to burn the rest of those leaves, but in the meantime, Zoë will no doubt continue to plow through our leaves like a retarded furry bulldozer.
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Happy dog
By Melissa | December 12, 2008
I taught her another trick (make sure your sound is on):
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Humbugs no more
By Melissa | November 30, 2008
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Finally–no more humbug-ism in our house. Meet our first Christmas tree, a Clemson greenspire from Wright’s Tree Farm in South Carolina. It was raining buckets when we went, but somehow we still managed to snag a tree.
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