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23
Dec 2010
Let’s see, here are the things I SHOULD be doing:
1. Wrapping final gifts.
2. Sending my second batch of Christmas cards.
3. Putting together a box for people overseas. And another box for people overseas.
4. Cleaning my house.
5. Baking stuff for Christmas.
6. Learning PHP.
7. Working.
Here are the things I WANT to do:
1. Play World of Warcraft.
2. Read blogs.
3. Read a novel.
4. Nap.
5. Open all my Christmas gifts, see what they are, and re-wrap them again. Quietly.
6. Eat (more) chocolate.
Here is what I have actually gotten done:
1. Teeth brushed.
2. Jogged a mile.
3. Walked dogs.
4. Finished novel.
5. Checked e-mail.
6. Cut Ben’s hair.
“Wait,” you say. “You actually cut Ben’s hair? That mass of unruly, curly hair that he hates to cut/brush/wash?”
Yes. Yes, I did.
Behold:
He is trying hard to restrain his joy.
And afterward, the bathroom:
23
Dec 2010
Can you tell I have writer’s block and nothing interesting/worth writing about/I’m able to publicly write about has surfaced? So instead, I bring you: Muppet Opera.
Side note: Animal was always my favorite character as a child, although these days I might pick the old guys. I now realize they are a side reference to Siskel and Ebert, an institution I took for granted as a kid. Gene Siskel died ten years ago, and Roger Ebert, while still a prolific writer, can no longer speak due to a battle with cancer (his jaw has been surgically removed). It gives me a kind of remembering joy to see them again, though, even as muppets, and even if the resemblance is just in my head. 
