Tis The Season....PPPPHHHHTTTT!!!

Okay...so the holiday season is officially under way. Yea...whoopee. Let me just say, I am neither a Deck-The-Halls kinda gal but I am not a Scrooge either. So far though...the season ain't lookin bright.

Online shopping (yes, this is how I avoid getting my toes broken by over zealous shoppers every year) had just gotten underway when...BOOM!!! Our computer decides it is going to wipe everything from it's entire memory! So now, I can't look for good deals and I lost all my recent pictures of the Goobers!! CW had already put previous ones to hard copy for me. So it really wasn't THAT bad considering I am following CW's much requested advice for the holiday and sticking to only 3 gifts per Goob. See Honey? I listen. Just took me...what? Three years? Parents presents are done. Just leaves MIL since Hubs and I aren't exchanging gifts (psst...yea...RRRRRIIIIIGGGGGHHHHTTT!).

So now the computer is down..er...was down. And what? I get sick. I am hackin' and sneezin' and well...just miserable but wait!! I scheduled...PICTURES for the family. Now I could have managed the sickness had I planned better for getting photos done. Yet the procrasinator in me (see? Ownin' up here again Dear) kept puttin it off. First mistake. I went somewhere new. Second mistake. It gets better. Then scheduled the whole thing when? Oh...just about when the Goobs wind down for bed and on my husband's iron pouring day. Third mistake. Merry Christmas!!! The WORST thing? Hated ALL the pictures!! Now I was emptied handed unless you count the overtired children and husband.

Now the cold was worse and I couldn't sleep so CW decided to stay home and help with the Kiddos. Ended up me setting up a "photo shoot" for the kids with snot drippin out of my nose (had to get the pics done some way dontcha know?), while Hubs spent his time in Technical Support Limbo for the computer. Your call is very important to us. Uh-huh. By the way...pics I took will be in the Photo Album if ya wanna look.

Summary: No gifts. No professional pictures. Hard drive wiped. But! The computer is up and the desktop is a lovely uncluttered blue. Ya know how people count down for Christmas? Well, I'm countin down for January 2...you know when people become a bit nicer and the world seems a bit LESS chaotic?