I Hate Moments Like This

I just read a news article talking about where the biggest free agents in Major League Baseball could be signing during this off season. The article predicted a couple of big names signing in Boston. I don’t know if that’s going to happen or not, but my first thought upon finishing the article was to send it to my father.

Shit.

I still have moments like this with my mother. Moments where I think to mention something to her only to then remember that she’s gone. Now I have to deal with things like that for my father too. He’s only been gone for about four months. It seems like yesterday, but also it seems like it never happened. I guess for both of my parents the reason it seems like it never happened is because I want it to have never happened.

I hate moments like this. I expect I’ll be hating them for the rest of my life. I miss my parents. This xmas is going to be tough.

Star

The star on top of our xmas tree is dead. It died over the off season somehow. When we put it up this year it didn’t work.

It took me a couple of weeks, but I finally got a replacement yesterday. It’s not nearly as nice. I’ll have to upgrade it next year, if I can remember to do it.

Hiss

Jen looked over at the cat tree and saw them snuggled up with each other. It was adorable. We both took out our phones, brought up the camera app, and then as we both pointed them at the cats they started hissing at each other and a millisecond after I snapped this they were trying to murder each other.

Oh well.

Rest

I am done wrapping Xmas presents for now. I managed to get through a shit load of them (to use a technical term).

Now it’s time to rest and maybe nap.

And We’re Off

The wrapping bonanza has commenced!

One down, 644628458376 to go.

Home

We are home from New York. It was just a one day visit to the city but it was a blast. All we did was wander around 5th Avenue while freezing our asses off. I shot a whole roll of 35mm film through my father’s camera. Awesome.

Today is December 15th. Xmas is 10 days away. You know what that means. It means that today starts the final xmas push. The to-do list for today includes wrapping presents by the truck load. There are a few errands to run too, but today starts the wrapping bonanza.

Bring it on.