the last christmas post...maybe

i just realized my last two posts had to do with the holiday season, SO this is the last one. hopefully i'll be too busy opening and subsequently using my presents to bother. this year is very special as lots of family is around, my aunt and uncle and cousin are here from florida as well as my grandma in from iceland. she has been performing her usual grandmotherly duties which include hijacking unattended clothing to wash mercilessly and knitting me things like socks and ear warmers (pictured below) at an alarming rate.

the snow up here in old northern virginny is twice as plentiful but they are far less inept with their snow plows. its chilly and stella is crazy in love with swimming in the snow, she leaps up like a seal to sink her teeth into the deflated soccer ball she's claimed as her own. ichi is very disoriented because her normal habitat in the guest room has changed to my mom's office, and she spends most of her time under the tree, as you can see from the picture in the previous post. we've all been consuming and spending ravenously, but along with all the shitty car rides and shopping trips comes gift wrapping and secret presents and surprises and i love christmas. i love it. i love thinking about what makes a person smile and then giving it to them wrapped cleverly in STAR WARS WRAPPING PAPER (you're welcome, brother.) anywho i'm a little tipsy on the multi-sam-adams-pack my dad got. peace