It was a good Christmas, I’d say. I ended up going to two church services (blech), a grueling 1.5 hour Christmas Eve service at my family’s awful Lutheran church, and a much more succinct Catholic mass with my girlfriend’s family on Christmas morning. The priest’s sermon was generously under 10 minutes, and Allison kept mumbling that he was rambling on and on and on, and I turned, amazed, to make sure she was serious. At my family’s church, sermons over 20 minutes are commonplace. Listen carefully, Lut’er’ns: you can learn a lot from the Catholics about brevity.
My major gift this Christmas was an iRiver H320 20gb mp3/ogg player and some Sennheiser circumaural headphones to go with it. Couple of other assorted things. Allison got me a 4-cup coffee pot (& accoutrements) so I don’t have to keep drinking the miserable sludge at work. In fact, I am enjoying some home-brewed java right now.
Christmas Day was spent divided between mine and Allison’s families, first with hers to mass and then to her grandmother’s for a late Christmas dinner with relatives, and then back to my house for a Christmas supper and continued familial mucking about.
My mother and father gave me a five-pointed-star ornament for Christmas. Only problem is, it’s got a second star in the center… and it’s a pentagram. Not quite sure how that got past Target’s Marketing division, but hey.
Yesterday, I just wallowed in my own crapulence. Allison got ditched by her cousin for the shopping spree they had planned, but unfortunately I wasn’t quite man enough to brave the post-Christmas retail blitz with her. We’re shopping this afternoon though, while Best Buy installs the car stereo I got her (who says men can’t be romantic?).
On an unrelated note, clients at work who don’t understand the basic tenets of web design should not be that company’s liason to the web designer.