Enchanted Family Christmas Special
Dec. 24th, 2008 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penfield"My creed is this:
Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make others so."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Tomorrow, Christmas Day -- if the weather cooperates -- J. and I will board a flight to Las Vegas and spend the holiday in the twinkling light capital of the world.
This is not to say that it will be a decadent Christmas. Sure, there may be some gambling here or a lavish stage show there or a gourmet meal somewhere else. But it will primarily be an Enchanted Family Christmas, as my brother and his financee, my mother and my father and my grandfather and grandmother will be there to provide the requisite mirth and good-natured mockery.
It should be a good time.
I am pretty much demanding that it be a good time, because 2009 is going to be a vortex of stress and activity, like living in the middle of a Eddie Van Halen guitar solo. There will be home-hunting, a Bat Mitzvah, a wedding, wedding planning, J.'s new job and my current job, which is shaping up to be its own horn o'plenty. This weekend may be my last chance to relax until April 2010. So I'm going to cash in my blessings and count them all.
And if I happen to come out ahead on my wagers, even better.
Have a merry Christmas, everyone.
Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make others so."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Tomorrow, Christmas Day -- if the weather cooperates -- J. and I will board a flight to Las Vegas and spend the holiday in the twinkling light capital of the world.
This is not to say that it will be a decadent Christmas. Sure, there may be some gambling here or a lavish stage show there or a gourmet meal somewhere else. But it will primarily be an Enchanted Family Christmas, as my brother and his financee, my mother and my father and my grandfather and grandmother will be there to provide the requisite mirth and good-natured mockery.
It should be a good time.
I am pretty much demanding that it be a good time, because 2009 is going to be a vortex of stress and activity, like living in the middle of a Eddie Van Halen guitar solo. There will be home-hunting, a Bat Mitzvah, a wedding, wedding planning, J.'s new job and my current job, which is shaping up to be its own horn o'plenty. This weekend may be my last chance to relax until April 2010. So I'm going to cash in my blessings and count them all.
And if I happen to come out ahead on my wagers, even better.
Have a merry Christmas, everyone.
