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From the holiday-festivities department:

Well, it is truly Christmas at The Gnurple Residence. I just happened to be wandering around the airport on Friday evening, and who should show up but my mom! Well, imagine my surprise and delight! So we headed back home. When we get there, who do we find waiting in my house but my sister and bro-in-law!

Let the Christmas festivities begin! We had a drink and chatted for awhile but as it was after midnight and everybody’d been traveling all day, plus we knew that we’d be busy running around the next day shopping and such, so we went all to bed.

Saturday comes and we start the day with muchas shopping for food and tree and such. Then back home where we put up the tree and prepared for the arrival of John’s parents, who showed up mid-afternoon. That’s when things really got going.

We cooked up some salmon fillets for dinner. My sister won the Dec24 Official Marketing Award of the Day for her description of salmon patties — “You know how they make particle board? They’re like that!”

We started flinging shiny tree fleas at carefully placing festive decorations on the tree. This was especially entertaining because the strings of light (which were leftover from my sister’s wedding, for those playing along at home) were only half-working. As in, each string only had half its bulbs on. And of course my sister discovered this *after* she’d finished putting the lights on — naturally you start at the top and run the lights ’round the tree, plugging them in at the bottom last, right?

So after unwrapping all the lights, I put on my techie hat (and my fake Italian Spanish (?) accent) and solved all the light issues. Oh, and I zapped myself, too d:) One of the bulbs was physically broken and as I was wrangling the string my wrist happened upon the exposed leads of the broken bulb. Zowch. I think it was at this point that we broke out the eggnog.

And then my sister got to string the lights for a third time. And there was much silliness to be had, and at some point we went to bed. I think it was around midnight, maybe.

AND THEN IT WAS CHRISTMAS DAY, AND THERE WAS REJOICING ACROSS THE LAND (or at least the living room, and maybe more like “blinking and eye rubbing” than “rejoicing”) AND THE PEOPLE WERE HAPPY FOR EVER AFTER (or at least we all had breakfast and then sat down to open presents).

Then Team Turkey got to work on the Traditional Christmas Dinner. My sister and I, in an impressive display of lack of bickering and good teamwork, took care of triptophanic avian preparations, with help from other quarters where appropriate (how do you flip a 15lb. turkey with nothing but a pair of tongs and two potato mashers?). At some point I won the Dec25 Official Marketing Award of the Day for my description of spruce beer — “You basically take a spruce tree, put it in a blender and add sugar.”

After that we retired to the living room (except one of us who did a bunch of dishes, and another one of us who packed the fridge Memere style — see fridge packedness level in photo above). And then I went to write a blog.

Merry Christmas everybody!

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