Having a White Christmas in Texas is a mixed bag of good and bad. It's good for all the obvious reasons (snow! Christmas! etc!) but bad because, in Texas, snow doesn't just mean snow. It means ice, bad drivers, accidents, road closures, and travel delays and cancellations.
Christmas Eve, Celeste and I didn't quite make it [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2009’
Christmas, et al
Still deciding
I've managed to take one item off the list of possible Christmas plans and yet I've added another. So here it is, Christmas Eve, and I'm still making up my mind. Yeah, everything works out this way for me. It's a curse.
I'm not going to my brothers. That amounted to the most work for the [...]
it must be Christmas
I can tell it's Christmas by the sounds of arguing from within my family. It happens every year. There's always something to go wrong. This year I guess it's my fault. Or rather, I'm the one with the problem. I want to spend Christmas with my family: inherited and chosen. This isn't completely possible, of [...]
visible tattoos
I am nearly ready for my second tattoo (sort of my first, if you think like I do).
At any rate, I'd really like this one to be in a less hidden place. Yet, at the same time, I worry greatly about employability. I do have a daughter to care for after all. And money [...]