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[serene]

Christmas Eve:

• Wake up at 3:30am after 4 hours of sleep
• Drive Aunt Sandy to the airport by 5am
• Go back to mom's house and change her dressing for the last time
• Get on the road at 6:30am (or 7:30, as MTY remembers it) with MTY (wtfpotatoes) and drive for 9 (or 8) hours
• Arrive in San Leandro to surprise stonebender
• Scare the shit out of stonebender
• Call mom, check up on her, etc.
• Sit around enjoying a visit
• Head home and realize my spare key doesn't work and no one's home to let us in
• Go to dinner at the little Chinese place in Berkeley, even though neither of us is hungry
• Call someotherguy and sogwife and get no answer at either number
• Head back to stonebender's and hang out, watch TV, and get progressively more worried that I haven't heard from someotherguy and sogwife
• Eventually hear from them
• Sob with relief
• Go home for the first time in almost three weeks
• Put the Munchkin to bed
• Take a shower
• Have really good, really necessary, really quiet sex
• Sleep like the dead
  

Christmas Day:

• Wake up all bouncy and eager to do stuff, but also with the beginnings of a cold
• Go grocery shopping (yes, we have a store that's open on Christmas)
• Eat fajita burritos and take some to sogwife
• Watch an hour of "Memoirs of a Geisha" with sogwife before collapsing for a nap
• Wake up from nap and cook a lovely dinner of pork roast, cheesy potatoes, and buttered green beans
• Take a nice walk in the cold air -- my first walk in about two weeks
• Make gingerbread cookies with wtfpotatoes
• Call all my family of origin to wish them a merry christmas and get all tired and sad about the situation with my mom
• Sit and stare at the computer for a while without knowing quite what to write about the whole situation
• Make these lists instead