The Boys in the NYPD Choir Were Singing 'Galway Bay'

I can't believe it's raining today and may be tomorrow. The magic of Christmas is alive! All December I've been singing, "I'm dreaming of precipitation this Christmas..." Ok, it's not Christmas, but I'll take two days of rain. And there's s'posed to be more this weekend.

That part actually irks me. My dad annoyingly wants us to drive to Tulsa on Sat nite for our family Christmas dinner. Since I'm currently in disconnect mode with them, I'm not het up about driving out there in a wintry mix for a 7:00 dinner and driving back at 9:00 at the earliest, arriving home at 11:00ish. Not the least, it's irritating to give up an entire day of Xmas prep.

I accomplished much on day one of holiday baking:
4 doz shortbread (1 red, 1 green)
2 doz minty middles
4 doz pfefferneuse
4 doz spritz
1 tray of peppermint bark
2 doz Russian teacakes
3 doz chocolate crinkles
8 maids a-milking

Tomorrow is chai-spice bread, pain d'epice, and pumpkin bread in a coffee can. Then packaging, then delivering, then I need to bake a few dozen for our annual Christmas cookie decorating (CCD) partay. And mebbe some Chex Mix.

We watched Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol tonite. It was a pretty accurate retelling - unfortunately. I'm simply baffled at why they had Mr. Magoo playing Scrooge straight. I mean the possibilities are endless (as they always are with Mr. Magoo). I can picture a scene where one of the spirits tells him to look over there and he can't see anything or he thinks the ghost of Christmas future is a wild bear and he beats him with his umbrella. Oh, well.

Don't Sleep in the Subway, Darlin'

Oh. My. God. It is m-fing raining in Oklahoma City. I was sure Sally Kern, et al. had brought the wrath of God down on us for embarrassing him so much, but it looks like he's merciful after all. All last week the entire nation was drenched except for a umbrella which prevented moisture from reaching Kans., Okla. and Tex.

We finally got home about 9:30 last night. I cannot tell you how good the kids were. They actually acted like sisters for about 2 hours in the car. Had some good talks on the final stretch about life and goals and things, so that was good.

We made it as far as Little Rock Thursday and on Friday we visited the Central High School National Historic Site and were very impressed. I actually bought merch there, which I never do. Killer got another Jr. Ranger badge. I was a little disappointed that they didn't really go into the legal issues involved in sending Federal troops to force a state to do something (by gawd). Man, the Little Rock Nine, as James Whitmore said, "The fight they put up...one for the book!" Then we went to the Clinton Presidential Center store - I am not paying $24.00 to visit the actual center. That's not an opinion of Clinton or anything, it's just, jeez, $24.00?

Ummm after work I'm going to the Chinese store to get some instant coffee. They have this Vietnamese instant coffee mix which is to die for called Vinacafe. Better than Starbucks. Did you know Vietnam is 2nd on the coffee exporting country list? So, yeah, I'm propping up yet another Communist regime.