it’s over!
Christmas has come and gone, and I am well pleased. All that remains - paying the bills, working off the holiday food consumption, and returning the gifts that don’t quite fit or whatever.
All in all, it was a pleasant enough holiday. Christmas eve we drove down to my parent’s house in the OC while Wendy made a ton of phone calls - family, friends, etc - on the mobile… got down, my sister/boyfriend/2 gigantic dogs where there, had a great meal, ate a bunch of really fattening food and saw some of the extended family. My dad actually had to work and didn’t show up until after 11pm… spent the night down there and opened presents christmas day. then we came back home for a brief break and to drop off the christmas booty before heading back out to have a late lunch with the other side of my family out in north hollywood at some bizarre austrian/swiss/german restaurant called the matterhorn. more fun with the extended family there.
post christmas day we had planned to go see return of the king again, but we got a call from a friend who was dealing with a collapsing studio ceiling thanks to the heavy rains, so we swung by there to see if we could help out. luckily nothing much had happened to his space, although the adjacent studio was looking at probably millions worth of damages to space and equipment. off to greenblatt’s for some food and wine and worst case scenario talk, then continued the holiday drinking over depressing dvds.
since then, it’s been pleasant downtime and the occasional foray to finns with friends or people dropping by here to pass some time.
next? well, we’re either heading down to san diego for a quick visit to a friend or blowing that off completely, and we’re leaving for vegas in just a few short days for the new year….