Merry Christmas
December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas, everyone. We aren’t doing anything too spectacular this year. Christmas tends to sneak up on us here. I fully intended to get decorations up and have a festive December, but it just didn’t happen. Our artificial Christmas tree is still in the box and the box is under our bed serving as a support to keep the bed from sagging. It is stuck there until we find a substitute. I fully intended to get some shopping done and ship presents home, but that didn’t come to fruition either. With Paul working all the time at his “part-time” job and me spending weekends struggling to make a dent in the housework and laundry, shopping just didn’t happen. Christmas eve we did manage to get to a mall and shop for presents for each other, but that is the extent of it.
I got up early this morning because there was lightning. I went to the living room to watch it with the cats. The storm was actually north in Sharjah, so the lightning and a little thunder was all we got here.
Daddybird is still sleeping and we are waiting patiently for him to get up so we can open presents. We got a bubble blowing machine for the cats. I can’t wait to see how much fun that turns out to be. Hopefully, it will entertain Oliver when he gets in one of his yowling moods.
Daddybird: “Merry Christmas!”
Kanga: “Happy Holidays!”
Bert: “mew”
Oliver: “MAH-WOO!”
Living the Travel Channel 
A bubble machine! How much fun!!! And did you get the catnip flavored bubbles? Although, that may be a bit too enticing! I can’t wait to see the video! And Merry Happy Christmas to you four, too! (Steve and Jon wondered if it was a vampiric Mickey with bubbles spewing from between the fangs? LOL)
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2010. Christmas shopping creeps on all of us. My only excuse is I have to travel 8000 miles, and guess what it works.