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Happy Boxing Day

Hello and welcome to the annual December 26th edition of the “What the hell is Boxing Day, anyway?” post.

That’s rhetorical, of course. As someone from Massachusetts I have no experience of knowledge of what Boxing Day may or may not be and I do not really want to know, I just like speculating. The rest of the English speaking world (well… the UK and Canada… anyone else?) celebrates Boxing Day on the day after xmas. Why? Who? What? This year I chose to assume that it has something to do with Guy Fawkes (another English story that I have no clue about) and maybe boxing up little pieces of whatever he was going to use to blow up Parliament. Yeah, that works for clueless old Robbie.

I took today off from work, which is nice given that I still have a cold. I am a little bit better over the last two days, but it’s still pretty bad. Boo, and stuff. It’s cold. I overslept (and I really, really needed it). Now I have nothing on my agenda outside of hitting the grocery store.

Well… that and buying a new guitar. HA!

Happy Boxing Day to the world that celebrates and to those of us in the former US happy nothing special day that happens to be the day after xmas.

Return to Reality

Today is the ultimate in down sides.

After all of that build up and two full days of celebrating, Christmas has come and gone. Here we are on the day after… Getting ready to go to work. Is there a bummer bigger than a mid-week Christmas when you are not off of work on the 26th? Probably not.

I took a few pictures yesterday of Christmas at home and at my sister’s, but I don’t think I got anything particularly good. We failed at controlling the chaos for the most part so there are few, if any, clear shots of kids experiencing the thrill of Santa. I’ll try to sort through everything tonight and do a proper recap over on the private Blogger page. There might be a random star atop the tree pic or two here as well.

I hope you all had a merry Christmas, and if you don’t have to work today I am totally jealous.

HoHoHo!