The Christmas explosion continues!

Santa Claus came! We really were good this year! Merry Chrirtmas everyone!

Santa Claus and the reindeer ate the snacks we left out for them!

Sears’ delivery guy called and the stove should be coming today between 1:00pm and 1:30pm! WOOHOO

Of course it is now 1:19pm and we have to leave for Rochester by 3:00pm… so maybe the Christmas miracle will turn into a Christmas Eve clusterfuck?

Maybe.

Update: The Norad Santa Tracker says the big guy and the reindeer are somewhere over the Indian Ocean right now. Getting closer to my house! WOOHOO I want presents!

Brilliant. Freakin’ Brilliant.

According to the Norad Santa Tracker, Santa is currently bombarding Australia with Christmas cheer and goodies. Go Santa Go!

I have a work Christmas party this morning followed by a Christmas party in Rochester, NH at Jen’s mom’s.

It’s a rainy -blah- looking day today, but it’s Christmas Eve so it’s all good for me.

The site to visit on Christmas Eve is, as always, Norad Tracks Santa.

Here is last year’s video, which is up on the site right now.

They have a countdown to take off running, and they also have a Google Earth tracker. I hope to have a chance to check this site with the kids tomorrow. I think they saw it last year but when Jen asked them about it at dinner last night they couldn’t remember it.

Ho-Ho-Ho

Forgive me. The kids and I watched The Muppet’s Christmas Carol yesterday. I can’t help myself.

This is the single most disgusting thing ever shown on network television, cartoon or otherwise.

Enjoy!

Yesterday afternoon when I took the pictures I used in the last post it looked like there was a lot of snow.

Then around 7:00pm I actually went outside.

There was nuttin’ at 2:30pm. Nuttin’.

In preparation of the arrival of the snow blower, I went out to clean off the cars and shovel off the steps. The snow piled up in front of both cars was higher than the hoods. I had a strange moment while digging around the front of my car. I had shoveled a path to each driver’s side door so that I could start the cars, then I cleaned them off, and finally dug a path around the front in case we needed to push them when the snow blower came. While digging in front of my car there was suddenly this bright light illuminating the snow around me. What the hell? Oh yeah… I had dug out a headlight. They were on, but buried under the drifts. That was odd.

At least I managed to get the back stairs shoveled out. I had neglected that after the first storm, but now it’s passable again. I also managed to get to the trash barrel, which means we will be a part of the weekly Ashland Ave trash pick up. >whew<

At about 8:00pm Norman knocked on the door and asked if I wanted to give it a shot. I was game. Jen’s car got stuck twice getting out of the driveway, but I was able to rock it loose both times. My car just blew right over the snow. Norman cleaned off the whole driveway, including the snowbanks along the sides. Thanks Norman.

Today, however, we discovered the real victims of the storm (at least from our driveway’s perspective): Windshield Wipers. Both of mine have been destroyed. Chunks of plastic have been cracked off, and the rubber is all but gone. Jen’s wipers are still in good shape, but her washer vent is frozen shut. She drove to Salem and back this morning and it never opened up. I’m not sure how to fix that problem. Hopefully it’s just frozen and not broken.

Also, hopefully, this is the last time I am going to have to talk about this damn one-two punch of a snowstorm. Screw Winter, I’m ready for Spring.