i can't believe i forgot to show you all the gift that charlie made for me... sheesh... here's a picture this box was at one time a plain pine box... he painted accents onto it (including my name in elvish -
THURSDAY | 12.25.03 | 11:48pm | white christmas - proved me wrong... here is a closeup of some of our real christmas snow... notice the actual snowflake-star shapes??? i don't know why i'm so proud of the snowflake-star shapes... it's not like i made them or anything... i just really really like them a lot...
WEDNESDAY | 12.24.03 | 11:19am | happy holidays... as ever...
TUESDAY | 12.23.03 | 2:40pm | so much for dreaming... for weeks now the ground has been covered with snow here in west virginia... i'd say that as recently as two days ago we had about seven inches, in fact... today, though, it's 60 degrees and there is no sign that this area had even seen snow yet this year... tomorrow - rain... christmas day is supposed to show signs of snow but it's doubted that there will be any on the ground... i came here for a country christmas of white... what's up with that!?!?!? charlie is locked in another room of the house working on some sort of "craft" which is to become my main gift... a craft!!! he says he hasn't made a craft since bible school and he's so excited about it... i have to admit that i am, too... i love crafts... crafts are one of the things that make me feel like a true woman sometimes... sigh... i mean, i really don't think of myself as being too feminine in any way but sometimes i'll catch myself in a craft and think, "dan'l - you're so gay"... i mean, come on!!! rather than going out into the woods to cut down our christmas tree i instead cut off branches from one in our back yard and fashioned them together with a bamboo rod to create a tree... how martha stewart is that!?!?!? three of my gifts to other people this year are hand-made (i can't tell you what they are 'cause those people read this site)... i've been working passionately for the last five days to make tons of origami christmas stars and snowflakes to attach to christmas packages... i'm really into tile mosaic... i own at least five tubes of fabric paint... on more than one occasion i have made an article of clothing when nothing else was clean... but at the same time i have a hairy chest and a beard and i just fixed the bathroom toilet and shower and the dishwasher in the kitchen... i know how to fix a flat tire... now, in order to remain as politically correct as possible i will say that these things don't make me any more of a man... but i can't help it... they make me feel a lot better about myself... (oh, i can also start a mean fire...)
MONDAY | 12.22.03 | 3:44pm | i need a long winters nap... we've been so so busy with christmas preparations and such that i'm just about completely worn down... i've never been a fan of the holiday season... no... now, don't get me wrong... i've thoroughly enjoyed cutting down my first real christmas tree (well actually, i just cut some branches off of a big pine in our back yard and put them together to form a sort of homage to charlie brown, but i like it... we're not sure, yet, if daisy likes it, though... she's kind of confused...) and any excuse to go on a huge shopping spree just makes me, well, very happy... i've spent about five hundred on christmas this year... i have a whole new family to buy gifts for, you know... and that's nice, too... i mean, charlie's family has been planning the christmas day events and there haven't been any dysfunctional moments yet... if it were my family there would have been an argument in the first five minutes of planning... my family is insane... no one has spoken to my mom (or she hasn't spoken to anyone, perhaps) since LAST christmas when there was some kind of big fight... there's a fight with my family every holiday, but people usually get over themselves after a few weeks or so... not this time... whatever happened last christmas was big enough to keep my family in arms the whole year... i wasn't there so i take absolutely no part and no side in the matter... thank the gods... no one back home really has any reason to be angry with me... that's awesome... today is actually my mom's birthday... i didn't remember until i typed the date on this entry and then was all, "oh, yeah... i have to call mom..." sigh... i do miss them all... just not enough to go home on any holiday... i'm smart that way: visit in the off-season and avoid all the holiday "cheer"...
FRIDAY | 12.19.03 | 5:32pm | merry christmas to me... i'm finally 30 GB cooler...
SATURDAY | 12.13.03 | 2:07am | "take me home country road..." after a very successful trip to new york (that was actually extended three days past the original return date) charlie and i packed up the old cadillac and hit the road back to west virginia... the drive isn't bad and, for the most part, seemed pretty much foolproof... but, nothing is always what it seems... after taking a wrong turn about halfway through the trip and traveling about two and a half hours past the wrong turn we ended up in baltimore maryland... hmmmmm... that's not supposed to happen... luckily our old roommate darrell was performing "the gift of the magi" there so we went to the show and spent the night with him... the next day we drove about half an hour to meet up with his aunt who also happens to live in baltimore... crazy!!! three days later we finally ended up back at home... now i'm here starting a new website and readjusting to the country life... i love adventures... and dammit, if my life isn't just one big adventure i don't know what is...
FRIDAY | 12.05.03 | 2:18am | "lift your hands up"
TUESDAY | 12.02.03 | 1:04pm | going back to where i'm "from" started packing today for a return trip to new york for some meetings... i'll be in town between tomorrow night and the night of the 6th... kids, this may be your last chance for a while... wanna see me? lemme know...
SATURDAY | 12.27.03 | 2:56pm | one gift to rule them all...
or erunámo) and padded the interior with purple velvet... inside the box is a gorgeous edition of the lord of the rings trilogy with illustrations by alan lee (it was his illustrations that inspired just about everything you see in the films by peter jackson)...
