Christmas time

Well, it’s here again. The time of year when lists are made, cheeks are rosy, and the ringing of bells can be heard throughout. This is, of course, the time of year when Melissa makes a list of all the things we (and by ‘we’, I mean ‘she’) needs to get done, her cheeks get all flustered rosy (mostly because by ‘we’, she means ‘we’), and she goes ringing doorbells dropping off gifts to our neighbors. This year was especially good because we included in some of our neighbor-niceties balloon rockets that make a sound very similar to flatulence. It doesn’t get more appropriate than that.

This is also the time of year when everyone on my outdated list of contacts receives via email or actual mail the yearly Pierce update. If you haven’t received yours yet, it means we don’t love you anymore because they were mailed out in the end of November. November of last year. Also, that was last year’s version. This year’s version may end up being a post-Christmas newsletter mailed out sometime in January. Okay, who am I kidding? It definitely will be a post-Christmas newsletter mailed out sometime in January. Probably January of 2010.

This is actually a good thing. We haven’t mailed a newsletter because I’m awesome at my job. At least that’s what I tell myself. It’s a lot easier than, “I didn’t pretend to be too busy with something else and got stuck on a proposal which took way too much unpaid overtime.” You can see how “I’m awesome at my job” is a lot easier to say. It’s at least 18 words shorter. So for all of you out there who are expecting a newsletter, stop waiting by the door for the mailman (at least until mid-January).

As for Christmas: what a wonderful time of the year, even if Bruce doesn’t think so…
Also, does anyone have any ideas for Melissa? I still have 1.14 days, right?

yay snow

It's finally here. And now it can be Christmas.

man post (part deux)

It is finally here. And now that it’s finally here, you’ll probably be highly disappointed that the promised ‘man post’ isn’t all that great. Kind of like what Melissa thinks now that she’s married to me. Brittany was kind enough to provide me with the pictures necessary to let the whole world know what I did for my Thanksgiving break exactly 3.86 seconds after I posted about her not providing me with said pictures. It was humbling. If I were able to be humbled.

As it were, this is what we did:

Melissa didn’t shoot the shotguns, but she’s pretty wicked good with the .22.

Brittany didn’t take any pictures of herself, which is probably good because that would have been scary. It’s usually a good idea to use both hands when shooting.

My political affiliations should also be crystal clear.

absolved

You probably didn’t notice, but just in case you did: the much (once) touted and long awaited (5 days) for ‘man post’ has not yet arrived. This is mostly not my fault. Just because I may or may not have said that I would be diligent in retrieving the pictures from my sister’s camera, it’s her fault that I haven’t posted ‘the man post’ because she was supposed to send me the pictures I didn’t pull off her camera before she left.

So instead I’ll put up pictures of our house with Christmas lights. I didn’t even almost fall off the roof when I was putting these up.

And this is our most awesome tree that doesn’t have any big empty spots without branches if you look at it in the dark.