Yes, this time of year is the magical time known as "The Logjam of Holidays"! Alright, so I just now made that term up, but there are quite a few of them. There are real holidays like Christmas and New Year's and fake holidays like Festivus, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah. We even had our Holiday Lunch at work last week where I won the amazingly opulent prize of a box of a dozen candy canes (much different than Teri's guess of a TV when I told her I had won a prize).
Today is my last day of coming to work in 2008 (and I actually did get a little bit of work done too...bonus), and the preparations for Christmas are nearly done. Once I get the Christmas travel out of the way tomorrow, I'll be ready to celebrate Santa's birthday in style, which seems to be how you celebrate Christmas from the decorations I've seen in the stores.
The downside to Christmas this year is that Teri couldn't get vacation time to come to Illinois with me, so we'll be apart for 5 days while I'm there. The upside is that I have a fiancee to come back to in Ohio. (She's a pretty amazing fiancee too.) One of the fun things I have to look forward to doing with Teri when I get back is going to the zoo for wildlights for free. We tried going earlier in the month, but the line was too long for us to get in with enough time to actually see stuff. When Teri e-mailed the zoo about this, they said they'd send a pass for free parking and free admission tickets.
Oh yeah, Lucy has requested more pictures of Sparky and Aunt Teri, so here are some I stole from Teri's myspace page. Enjoy, Lucy.
