Life Signatures

I’m working from home this afternoon. I actually came home to look for software that I need to load onto my computer in order do some work. Well in the midst of Christmas and my perpetual inclination to procrastinate, I placed the disc on my counter and decided to come back and revisit this project at a later time. Then we decorated for Christmas, had a couple parties, threw some homework on it, ate some meals around it and now, it’s lost in the twilight zone. This is a frustrating, sorry state of affairs.

As I was looking, I realized that the house is in this strange state between Christmas and The-Cold-Dark-Period after Christmas.

The husband started taking down the Christmas tree but didn’t have time to finish it before a trip. I said, “I’ll finish it for you.” And there it stands, pathetically naked with its top off.

I looked at the tables full of ornaments and realized how many pretty ones there are. Especially of airplanes.

All the pretty, pretty, sparkly, jewels that now have my attention and keeping me from finding the disc.

Here’s an old one we’ve had for years. It’s some kind of vintage airplane.

And back there behind the Eiffel Tower is a B-52, I think. I’m not an aviation expert, I just live with one. Too bad he’s not here right now, he always finds things a lot quicker than I do. Maybe it’s because he actually looks and doesn’t get distracted as easily as you know who.

Last one…here is my collection of little German people that I said I would post once a day in December but didn’t. I guess I really do procrastinate.

I really have to find that disc. Good-bye.

Okay, so where do I start? Well, maybe “Hello” and “Merry Christmas” would be a good start, huh? Yes, we’re deep into the Christmas season since Christmas is this week and I’m just now writing the annual Christmas letter. So I’m a little late, take me to court! Inside joke.

I don’t remember much about the first half of 2008. There’s no record or archives, so it must not have happened. To me, the time just “flew”, airline humor.

I do remember June. Father’s Day is in June. I remember that ’cause the wonderful, gorgeous, wife bought me, drum roll please,….A BOAT! Finally! Yes, she is fantastic! And for all you other ladies out there, she really raised the bar for you next year. The boat is awesome and we had a great time pulling the kids and their friends and fishing on the river and out in the bay.

So, we’re into summer…the wife’s birthday is in the summer and I reciprocated by giving her a camera. Whoa, baby, talk about changes around here! She loved it. She started snapping pictures of everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, to the point of getting in trouble, sometimes big trouble. The kids think their mother is some law breaking, trespassing, pushing the limit risk-taker. So, this creative deformity in her just exploded and she started blogging! Now she’s sharing with the world what our family always knew, she’s got this crazy sarcastic sense of humor. Did I tell you things changed around here? Well, they did. She started documenting everything we do around the house – everything. It’s like our family Wikipedia.

So, anyway, the kids are doing great. (The boy) is playing the guitar and loves NASCAR, (the girl) is riding and jumping horses, and the pets are sleeping. We went to New Orleans (that was before the camera so that didn’t happen). Then we went to Cleveland. You can just read EVERY post that she has written by clicking on the “Previous Entries” at the bottom of each page until you get to the very beginning when are lives were not totally exposed on the world wide web. So enjoy.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone out there. May God bless each and every one of you. And a special shout out goes out to you guys and gals out there who are serving in the military. We know who you are, what you do and the sacrifices involved. Come home safe.

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TJ, (aka “the husband“)