The Christmas Slacker

Ok guys, I have a good one for you.  In all my years of impromptu and all around awesome gift giving I have always sucked at gifts for Christmas.  If a gift should be given on a specific date then I just can't do it.

This years example:  I collected addresses and even bought Christmas Cards early but did not send them out...  Pretty much classic Dan.

So if you want a card let me know but it will be late and I might even wait until summer to send it out. They are pretty awesome  :) haha

"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."

Thanksgiving Amusement

So as I sit here looking at the traffic outside I have decided to write a blog entry.

An interesting thing happened this past weekend when I went to visit my family for Thanksgiving. I was made aware of some family drama that I had caused with no wrongdoing on my part. I stayed at my sister's house instead on my Grandma's house!!!

Now that you have calmed down I will give you a little background. My sister recently got married and she and her husband bought a house. My sister called me at the start of November and asked me to come down for Thanksgiving (which occurs at my Grandma's house) and so I changed my plans and agreed. Originally I said that I would be staying at my Grandma's house because for my entire life, until now, I have always stayed at my Grandma's house when I went down to Fresno.

About a week later I was speaking to my Mom and she informed me that my sister wanted me to stay at her house but she didn't want to have to ask me. So now we have reached the first source of amusement to me... I was supposed to know my sister wanted me to stay at her house even though she hadn't said anything about it. So to be the good brother I am, I called my sister and asked to stay at her house, a request she nonchalantly accepted.

I then informed my Grandma that I would be joining the family for Thanksgiving and I would be staying at my sister's house. She was happy because she always likes to see me. Or at least I thought she was happy...

Here is the next bit of amusement... My Grandma called my sister to "talk about pies" and randomly slipped in "you know Dan is always welcome to stay here..." and then quickly finished the conversation. I know of this conversation because my sister made sure to bring it up a few times that weekend.

The holiday went off just fine (except for the part where the family ate more of the pie my sister made than the pie my Grandma made, which I fixed by going back the next day to eat a piece of each of my Grandma's pies :) and I made it home safe and full... I spoke to my Mom a couple days later and she said that my sister was very happy from my stay for the weekend, "practically glowing". My Grandma put on the happy front and will take all this out on my sister later. My Grandma is a great woman but is old fashioned and cannot find any fault in the men in her life and so must make comments to the women... :)

So now I find myself amused by the situation I am in: my sister and my grandma both want me to stay with them anytime I come down to visit and I have to make the decision as to who is let down...

"Forever on Thanksgiving Day; The heart will find the pathway home."