fivecats | Reflecting on the Season

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December 2005 Durham, NC
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See, here's the thing about Christmas.

I grew up watching way too much television, a fact that has warped a great deal of my thinking for far too many years. One of those ways has to do with my expectations of Christmas. The big tree, the lights, the clean house, the cookies and cakes everywhere, a nice fire in the fireplace and, of course, standing by the window looking at all of the snow piling up against the panes and covering the grass and driveways outside.

That's one of the signals that Christmas is really on it's way.

Instead, Real Life is nothing like that. We have about 10 days before Christmas and none of those idealized trappings exist for me yet. Worse, I have to be the one to help create some of them. What happened to those frisky little pixies ("Yeeeeeaaaaassss!!!") that play their magical flutes in Scottish castle hotels, cleaned the Huxtable family's house all through "The Cosby Show" years and, undoubtedly, cleaned, cooked and created through all of the TV Christmas Specials that I watched as a kid.

Geez, do I have to do everything around here?

(Bonn would, undoubtedly, take this opportunity to smack me upside the head and correct me by saying, "No, I have to do everything around here.")

(And she has a point)

For two more images and a bit more rambling,

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James Craven III
December 2005 Durham, NC
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Part of the problem is that I end up tired as, well, tired, by the time I get home. The idea of baking pies and making cookies just doesn't occur to me when I get home. A sense of mild "I have to learn Filemaker" panic sets in at some point and I'll try to read some of the Filemaker documentation I have, but lemme tell ya, Filemaker documentation has got to be one of the best sedatives I've found outside Ambien which, as I said back during the dark days of '04, grants one The Sleep of the Dead.

Still, we have company coming for Christmas and we have to make ready for them. That means a cleaned house, a cleaned studio for them to sleep in, cookies and pies, a tree up and decorated, etc., etc.

We'll get there. One step at a time.

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Almost Everything
December 2005 Durham, NC
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These images were taken Saturday during a break from the show we did with our friends in Durham. There's a lot of road construction going on in the area and I was forced to walk around an area that I normally would cut through. The windows caught my eye, or, rather, the reflections in the windows caught my eye.

I don't know if I'm happy with any of them, but there they are.

Hope your Christmas/Holiday plans are going well and that you're taking care.

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