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Brett will be spending Christmas with his parents this year. He'll be driving out to Arizona to see them the Tuesday before Christmas and will be back the Sunday after.

Since he'll be off with his folks, I decided I may as well go out and do something different for the holidays, so I'll be spending the Christmas/Yule/Solstice in Santa Cruz with lrc and zabster for Larry's annual Whiskymas party. At this party, I will be making my famous (well, famous to some) red jambalaya. Pretty much the point of the party is to eat food and drink whiskey. Since Larry is already sitting on, I think, 3 or 4 of my past contributions to his whiskey collection, this year my contribution to his party will just be my cooking.

I'm almost done with shopping for presents. I have gifts for my mother, sisters, Aunt Bertha, and my friend Alison. I have to get a present for Brett, and that will be that for my gift giving this year. A lot of people won't be getting gifts from me this year, which kinda sucks. I enjoy gift shopping, but circumstances dictate I cut way back this year. I have to get to the post office on Wednesday so my sisters get their presents by Christmas. At least I won't have to lug as many packages as this year. Hopefully, this time when I go to the post office, the whiny bint from last year won't be there.

The job hunting isn't going anywhere right now. Even if the counry wasn't in a recession, this is a lousy time of year to look for a job. So far, most of the listings I've checked out, as noted in an earlier post, were in the porn industry. I have nothing against porn, but I'll change careers before I put myself through having to work with that level of incompetence again.

Things will probably look better on the job hunting front once the holidays are through.

Brett and I tooled around Beverly Hills on Saturday to see how they've dressed up the streets for the holidays. I got some decent shots, but the best shot of the night wasn't of the decorations, but of a gas station.

I gave Allison and Alea their gifts today. Allison got tempted and opened hers about an hour after I gave it to her, then ran over to production to thank me. I also gave Allison a gift for her little boy, Max. Not that those three presents were heavy, but Max's was pretty bulky, so I could only pack and carry those three to work and every one else has to wait until Friday. I still have a bunch of little gifts to bring to work tomorrow, and that will take care of my co-workers.

I mailed a bunch of things yesterday, including Aaron and Patrice's presents. Considering how late I'm getting this stuff mailed out, the post office was relatively painless last night. It only took about 20 minutes to get through the line and everything done. I have to FedEx Larry's present and that heavy ass box of gifts me and mom are sending back for my sisters in DC, and I do mean heavy. I don't look forward to finding out how much FedEx will charge to ship and insure that monster. Those have to go out on Friday

Then aside from getting my mother's gift wrapped up, and putting away all the boxes that hold the decorations, I'm all done with all that X-mas prep jazz and can relax. No more heavy lifting until after the new year.

Brett got his X-mas present early. I had meant to get him a new TV anyway, since the one he had was fritzing out. Well, it finally went kerflooey last week (causing me to miss most of the second half of the Heat-Pistons game, which was utterly unforgivable), so this weekend, we went to Best Buy and got him a new TV.

He didn't totally believe me when I told him he was getting the TV for X-mas anyway, he thought I would get him one of the things he asked for on his X-mas list, but he should know by now I never get him the stuff on his wish lists, I get him things he needs but is too slow to get for himself, cuz, hey, let's face it, he'd have sat there banging on that old TV set of his, trying to make it work until the cows came home, thus causing me to miss a lot of Friday night basketball games, and that just won't do.

So, the HMB has his present early, and he's quite happy with it. Yet, for some reason, there was a shocking lack of nudity/lap dancing in his thank you. I'll have to remind him to correct that this week.

I didn't realize it at the time, but we ended up getting him the exact same TV I have.