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November 29, 2004

Holiday blah

I'm an early christmas shopper. I've always been. I bought my first present this year in august. I bought my last present friday. Usually, I'm perfectly content to be finished now, and start on the other christmas festivities like baking and decorating, but this year something is different. This year I see all the sales adds and all I want to do is get out and shop. Not necessarily for christmas stuff, but everywhere I turn, I see something I want to get either for family, or for myself.

I think part of this is the uncertainness of how the next month and a half will go for us. Face it, until the navy informs us of it's decision, we don't even know what type of house to look for in WA. We don't know how much furniture we will be able to take, or even who will move said furniture.

But that being the case, why do I want to buy more stuff to worry about moving?

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Jason left again today. He'll be back in a few days though. I was looking forward to the alone-time since we literally were together every minute the past 4 days.

Scratch that, I just got an email that they're not getting underway till tomorrow.
Feh - I bet that means they'll come back a day later, which may screw with our weekend plans.

Anyways, I was going to say that no matter how long the length of the underway period, I still get this wierd mourning feeling. I'm pretty used to it by now, but honestly, I didn't think I'd feel this way for just a few days.

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So, Thanksgiving. We had dinner. We watched football (go longhorns!)
We watched more football. We played blackjack. Jason woke up at 6 am on black friday to try to get a cheap dvd burner at staples. He was home by 6:30 with no dvd burner. They had already sold out. Later we went to sears and people watched. It was so interesting watching the dynamics of the shoppers, and even realizing how different the shoppers were demographically as we walked from sears to banana republic.
Saturday, we watched more football. It was cloudy and cold. Sunday we went to the zoo. I LOVE the san diego zoo. We're members, and it is worth every penny. One of my favorite things about zoos is that they combine my love for being touristy with my love for watching the discovery channel (venom ER rocks!). So, we saw the reptiles, and the galapagos tortises, and the polar bears. SDZoo has the best polar bears. I've never seen more playful zoo animals. Well, one was napping, but the other was in the pool right up next to the glass windows, and was playing with a chewed up plastic jack-o-lantern. Actually, he was throwing the pumpkin towards the spectators.

So, picture a 10 ft high glass wall with water coming up to about the 3.5 ft. height. There are literally dozens of kids standing within inches of a massive 8ft tall 2 ton, playful polar bear, who all the sudden leaps in the air propelling himself toward the glass wall and....

SMASH - he crashes right into it.

No, the glass doesn't break, but it was hilarious to see the kiddos freak out.

and now we are at today. Monday.

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Only crazy people name their kids Phinnaeus. Hazel isn't too terrible, but still. Phinnaeus and Hazel? C'mon. Besides, what kid today won't hear phinnaeus and think "Phinnaeus Nigelus, the most unpopular headmaster at Hogwarts"

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Since Jason has come home from the big deployment, I haven't read one single book. I'm taking at least 3 with me at christmas. 8 hours on a plane should help me catch up a bit. I haven't read Angels and Demons yet. That would probably be a good christmas book. Also, Jason is listening to the new "godfather" book, so maybe I'll start that when he is finished.

25 days till christmas!

Posted by Sharon at November 29, 2004 02:12 PM

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