It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.....

I love the Christmas season. For me it's so fun to try to find the perfect present for those that are special in your life, and to watch the expressions on their faces when they open it. I love the lights, the sights and the smells, Christmas is just normally a good time of year for me. This last Saturday night I began getting a sniffle and a sore throat. Sunday it became an all out nose turned into a dripping facuet, body aching full blown cold. So do I do the sensible thing and sleep all day, nope, not me because I have wonderfully procrastinated my final project which just happens to be due on Monday at noon. So all day Sunday and into the wee hours of Monday morning I slave away. I grab a few hours of sleep and return to my diligence early Monday as I call in sick to work. Anyway to make a long, agonizing story shorter, it is now Friday morning. Having worked the rest of the week and thank goodness for all kinds of drugs I made it to Friday. Now here I sit, nose faucet still in place with a deep walrus sounding cough.(At least the glass swallowing sore throat has stopped) Poor me right. Actually the point of this blog was not to complain but as I wallowed in my own misery I could not help but notice that many others around me are suffering the same fate. My son has ear infections and eye infections, my wife isn't feeling well and her whole family, is currently suffering from all different kinds of ailments. It's enough to make me say bah Humbug! This time of year is no fun. I hope that all of you have missed the creepy crawling bugs of the winter season.

Now that I have rambled and complained I must say that I am still rather enjoying the Christmas spirit. As I gaze into the twinkling lights of our humble, but elegant christmas tree, I think all is not lost. Life is what I will make of it. So to all three of you that will read this, I say to you Merry Christmas, or whatever your respective holiday greetings may be.