Happy XMAS

Had a hekuva Christmas! Ate like a pig; shoveled tons (literally, over the Christmas season) of snow; hauled, sawed and split multiple cords of firewood; emptied the ash bucket; visited with a few good friends; drank coffee today, even though I've "quit" and switched to caffeine tea - you probably know how jitterbugging a good strong cup o' joe is after a hiatus from that powerful drug; Hit Santa Claus and his reindeer with a long-distance slingshot that fires lethal iceballs; Ran around my hometown seeking to get important errands done; Shivered in the back of an unheated pick-up truck going 45 MPH (AIN'T I a TOUGH COOKIE!); Made damn sure to post some positive stories on Farcebook (You noticed:) and also updated a buncha FB stuff that nobody really cares about but me, Ho Ho Ho!; Went to the dollar store instead of the MALL of the AMERICAS; Would have drank red wine, but I'm not "allowed;" Listened to endless reams of Christmas music - even those FM stations you might have thought know better committed the psychic crime of blasting us all with Yuletide MUZAK!; Saw the doctor, or better yet, his Registered Nurse; Watched "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer," just to see if it hypnotizes me like it did 40 years ago - alas, not QUITE; And did a whole lotta other things, fun, pun, shun, sun, and run, run, run! "It's the MOST WONDERFUL TIME... Er, Reeeeeaaaalllly, the MOST BUSY TIME of the YEAR." So ENJOY, each and every one of youse. (Not necessarily CHRISTMAS, but being alive and awake, in and around all those beautiful snowbanks.) Above all, send me pics when you've built that igloo you been talkin' about constructin' for sooooo long....