Christmas
Christmas Day and all of the joys associated with it!
R and I got up this morning, got ready and then headed straight over to my
grandparents for Christmas morning, which I traditionally do with these fine,
Christian, folk. My grandparents, my daughter and my ex-wife were all over
there, the latter two having spent the night. Did I mention before that my
ex-wife, Chris, is always around my grandparents' place? They watch Madeline a
lot of the time and Chris helps my grandmother out a bit so they've got some
sort of weird symbiotic thing going. Having my first wife and my current wife
both there was different, to say the least.
This is the first time that R has gone there as she normally is in the Bay
Area with her family but couldn't go this year. We did the normal gift exchange
and then went and did the Christmas Brunch at the dining room of their
retirement community. The food there is generally better than you'd expect and
we had a good time. Eventually, after the brunch and chatting for a while, we
took our leave.
After a quick stop by the only open Starbucks in the area, we headed over to
Rubylou's place for her casual Christmas rescue mission. Rubylou has an open
house every Christmas afternoon and evening for any strays, lonely Jews, and
people needing to recover from family gatherings. There was a pretty good spread
of food there and I got to spend some time talking to Rubylou, her SO, Sean the
Apple Guy, and playing with Lulu the Kitty and Livy the baby. Strange as this
may seem to some people, little babies like me almost as much as cats do and I
played with Livy on and off the whole time that I was there. She's a fun kid.
We just got home a short while ago and I'm ready to unwind a bit. Today was
the first day of rain all week and it turns out the my emergency seal on the
roof does nothing so the drip was back this morning and afternoon. Luckily, the
rain seems to have stopped so I can quit being annoyed by it for now. This had
better be fixed on Tuesday though.
I think I'll go read my Grimwood novel now.
Listening To: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Brother, My Cup is Empty
