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Let's see.  We're 3 days into Christmas break and so far, so good, I guess.  Thursday, before Christmas break, the 6 of us celebrated Jaden's 7th birthday at Ryan's Steakhouse.  My 2 youngest girls love that place.  To me, the food is OK but there is just something about it that reduces humans to cattle rushing toward the feeding trough.  That's what it looks like anyway.  Plus there are fewer and fewer staff people who speak English there and the diners are pretty exclusively redneck but still, we had a nice time.  Hard to believe my baby is SEVEN! 

Saturday it snowed, quite a bit so I got my shoveling time in.  It's still too snowy and icy to walk my 2 miles so I'm totally into shoveling to burn those calories.  Today was was even tempted to shovel the walks of some neighbors---not next door mind you, but neighbors a couple of blocks away that when I drove by hadn't shoveled their walks yet.  Resisted the urge though, thought it might seem kinda weird to them to see this woman walking around with her shovel randomly shoveling sidewalks.    Rented 3 movies and watched "Deck the Halls" this evening.

Sunday a.m. was church.  In the afternoon we watched "We Are Marshall" and tried to watch "The Astronaut Farmer" but the latter was pretty weird and boring so didn't get through that.

Today, got groceries for tomorrow this a.m.  Replaced several lightbulbs with the newish kind that's supposed to last lke 9 years and save tons on electricity and did a few other odds and ends.  The kids opened 1 Christmas present each so we spent alot of the afternoon playing Monopoly--Ky's gift of the day.

Tomorrow we're going to do various kinds of soups at my friend Jean's house.  I feel bad for dad being alone and we were going to go up there but with the snow on Saturday, decided not to.  Still thinking about going next weekend though.

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Hate may be a bit strong but this month is like a minefield of emotions in normal circumstances and this year there is other yuck stuff to go along with the usuals. 

I turned 44 on Dec. 2.  'Nuf said.  There is nothing young, fun or romantic about turning 44 unless you happen to be running for President in which case they make 45 sound like the new 25. 

Speaking of Barack Obama, I got to see him AND Oprah last Saturday.  Pretty fun actually.   Saw them between ice storms.  No actually an ice storm started while they were here which made driving home a bit of a challenge but it was worth it.  OK, so that was a fun spot in an otherwise yuck month.

We've had 2 ice/snowstorms in Dec.  Actually I guess there is a bright side to this as well.  The bad part is that I'm unable to take my daily 2 mile walk b/c of the ice but I've actually burned more calories by chopping all of the ice off my sidewalks and and driveway.  It is also a wonderful opportunity to vent all of one's frustrations by repeatedly stabbing the ice with the blade of my handy dandy ice chopper tool thingy.  Quite rewarding I must say.

Christmas.  I hate Christmas.  Really.  I play along for my kids but there isn't much about it that I like.  I do not dislike celebrating Jesus' birth but the whole thing has gotten way outta hand.....people spending hundreds on gifts for other people on things that they just don't need.  Crass consumerism.  Killing the environment.  Yep.  I'm sure that's what Jesus would want.  Stupid puffy fat snowmen and santa's blown up in people's front yards.  Everyone pretending that they have the perfect, happy family that will all spend Christmas day together having  a storybook kinda day. 

Kids are having some tough times.  Payten is changing schools at semester if she can.  Long story but the fact that she is changing and needs to change for a chance at happiness makes me sad.  Jaden is still talking and arguing in school alot.  I don't think I EVER got calls from any of my other kids teachers in 1st grade. 

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