Do you think maybe it's finally going out of style? I can't recall not hearing it any holiday seasons before this one...

No, I think some of us just got lucky. (I don't like Christmas music. So I do try to avoid as much as possible.)

I too won LDB! And today at the skating rink, where holiday music was playing, it was all music I liked. weird!

I failed at workout! The SO lost some things so I ran around looking for them and then he burned his hand. Argh. He's okay, but I hate stuff like that, especially at the beginning of break. He was supposed to go hunting on Friday, dunno if that's still on or not.

Then I edged right up to panic attack on the state of the house and car. We've been cleaning, but I just feel so out of control. I think I talked myself down, so tomorrow I'll clean out the cars and Friday I'll start work on the office, but there is so much shit I need to do. I guess I should be glad I have break to do it, but instead I just feel shitty that I can't have break off.

I had a good Christmas day, though, so I guess I need to just calm down.

I won at LDB too, without even trying to avoid it. Hmmm.

I fell from my bike today and mangled my knees. That was dumb. Much icing, several hours, and a couple naproxen later and they feel OK, a bit stiff and scraped up is all. Dumb.

Ooh no burrell!

I am thinking it won't be too bad, mostly a bit of deep bruising. But good thing we had one of those Tegaderm bandages lying around. One knee is pretty scraped up.

Oh and Liese, I meant to say I totally feel you on the house-cleaning driven panic attacks. That was me ALL last week, and the house is still a disaster area, as Kat can attest. But it looked nice enough when the tree was lit up and the gifts were beneath it. But continued cleaning and rose pruning is that plan for next week.

Wishing calm for Liese and knee-healing for Burrell.

Not quite sure how I'm going to keep my kids entertained through their holiday vacations.

Shotgunned Community and The Inbetweeners with Emmett tonight and feel like I'm running out of television.

For the most part it's been advantageous to have a ten year gap between Emmett and Matilda, but it's trickier keeping them both having fun at the same time now. Well, we'll start with pancakes tomorrow and maybe an outing to Japantown.

I also need desperately to clean the house (the monthly maid is coming Friday, too, so I have to have things out away! Deadlines are good, but that will also mean a certain amount of just shoving stuff in closets.

The cat is glad a human is back but has been meowing outside my bedroom for hours. And it's 230am and I woke up thinking I heard someone in the house (im thinking it eas either the cat or my imagination) and now I'm too awake to sleep. Also afraid I might be getting the sore throat the girl I was kissing warned me she had. Oops.

It could not be a better day to stay inside -- POURING rain out. Alas, I have to go to work. That was a mistake.