Blog Eighteen: Christmas Rundown

What a Christmas.

The Cheatin' Bitch got engaged to Darwin, so congrats to both. He executed the proposal very artfully, I must say, and the ring is most impressive. Of course I knew about the impending event a week ago but couldn't blog about it in order to keep the secret. Finally, we've suckered someone into taking her off our hands, and we didn't even have to pay a huge dowry.

The Small Girl made out like a bandit, getting more Christmas presents than I could possibly remember; there was a new play gym, one of those things with the little balls, a banana doll thing, a piggy bank, and clothes, clothes, and more clothes. I got a framed map (I love maps) some camcorder accessories, the camcorder itself as a partial XMas gift, some clothes, books, games, a Warcraft atlas, gift certificates, etc. Snaby Girl also did very well, except for the frightening gift of a vibrator from Switall!. Switall! did give us a gift certificate for dinner theatre, though, which was very nice.

Terminology Note: I used to refer to Switall! as "Bridget Jones" but I'm going to stick with Switall! from now on.

Grandma had to be spirited away to emergency on Christmas night due to a medical crisis that was part a bad reaction to turkey and part hysteria; we saw "King Kong," which I must admit was even more awesome than I had hoped; and the Senators beat the Rangers on Dec. 26 and are now 25-9.

But in spite of the engagement and all that, the centre of attention ended up being, unsurprisingly, the Small Girl, who is, somehow, getting cuter. I've never seen Mom and Dad happier. I must post a picture: