too much and not enough

I had a nice Christmas. We went to Houston to spend it with my family. Both my brothers were there, along with Mike’s girlfriend Vanessa, who seems very nice. For a holiday where we weren’t supposed to give too many presents, we sure all ended up with a lot of stuff! Mom made each of us a personalized quilt. It is so cool. Mine has photos of all the pets I’ve ever had on it. Doc’s is really cool; I call it his “smartass quilt.” Be careful what you are a smartass about when asked about your likes and dislikes, or you might end up with a quilt that has a picture of a Mudflap Girl, skulls and crossbones, and Sunbonnet Sue smoking a pack of Kools on it. Mom also made me, Mike, and Bob each a scrapbook with old photos in it, in pretty much chronological order. She’s not finished with them; mine goes up through college. There’s hundreds of pictures in it. Very very cool! Doc and I gave each other a new set of pots and pans (Calphalon Stainless Steel). He gave me some computer games, calendars that I’d asked for, gloves, some Christmas ornaments, a mixed drink book, and also bought me/us a scanner. It’s very neat in that it is basically just a sheet of glass with a frame, that you set on top of whatever you’re scanning. It also has a stand if you want to use it that way. I ****HATE**** scanning…(hate…scanning… so… much…) but this may make it not such an ordeal.

Now I’m in sort of overload mode. I have freelance work to do (and am having no end of trouble with FTP! GRRRR!!!!) but also two new computer games; the house looks like a tornado came through here; we have a New Years party on Wednesday that almost no one has RSVP’d for… which reminds me, I’d better send out a reminder message, ’cause if it’s just going to be Joel and Valerie and us, then I don’t want to make six tons of food.

Sigh. Too much to do, not enough time, and zero motivation for any of it.