December 21st, 2009 | Author: trancejen
No, we don’t have mice.
The J-Man wants a hamster for Christmas.
Yes.
Never mind the fact that we have three cats.
Because I am a pushover, I am going to purchase said hamster, but Dear God I am not not going to have anything else to do with it. I had this child sitting at the computer yesterday for an hour researching hamsters, their care and feeding, and most importantly their short life span, and he seems to be well-informed, at least.
My mother is less than thrilled about this addition to our household. She feels that a rodent is a rodent is a rodent, and that having one is both gross and completely insane.
I largely agree.
However, we shall give this a shot, and if he doesn’t take proper care of it it will go back to the pet store.
In other news, my family’s rather raucous Christmas party was this past Saturday night. A thousand pierogi were fried, a thousand beers were drunk, and it was a pretty happy time.
My father called me the other day and had this to say:
“Jen.”
“Yes?”
“I have a Christmas request.”
“Shoot.”
“I don’t want any presents in gift bags this year.”
“Excuse me?”
“I want everything wrapped. It is NO FUN opening presents in gift bags, you just take the thing out of the bag!”
“You like the ripping.”
“I like the ripping.”
“You are so freaking weird.”
I had already wrapped all of his gifts, but I’m thinking I will put them in gift bags anyway, just to be ornery.
I’m crazy busy what with making ornaments and jewelry for friends and family, so I probably won’t post again before Christmas, but I hereby order all of you to have a rocking good time.
We are staying at home, going to church (augh) and then having dinner on Christmas Day. No big whoop. It’ll be nice to relax.
Happy Monday, and a very merry Christmas to you.
Glad to see that you are back! Now tell me more about your homemade pierogi…
Have a happy.
Ha! This is the first I’ve heard of an express ban on gift bags and, of course, it comes from your father! It seems a very Virgo thing to do for some reason.
I hope you have a very Merry Christmas! I’ll be thinking of you.
I love gift bags, not gonna lie. Because I’m pretty much a disaster at wrapping presents. My gifts look like a 5 year old did them.
i would totally put them in gift bags. and the gift bag in another gift bag, maybe two or three deep. we’ve done that for my mother one year. my dad got her a diamond bracelet, and had it wrapped in like 6 different boxes, the largest being for a computer monitor.
“It seems a very Virgo thing to do for some reason.”
That is so true and hilarious on so many levels…
Do what idiot milk did, with the individually wrapped tighty whities.
Have a very merry one!
Don’t be too sure about the life-span of those little f-ers. Ours has escaped FIVE times, and has reemerged each time. I don’t mean it ran away and hid somewhere close; I mean it fell (jumped?) from it’s cage on my son’s (tall, five-drawer) dresser, and down the stairs – of which there are 15! I’ve always managed to find him within a day or two, and it’s usually late at night and he’ll just go waddling by. Lucky for him, I have three extremely lazy cats.
Hope you have an awesomely (?) amazing Christmas, Jen! Happy holidays!
Merry Christmas, Jen! Good luck with the hamster!