It's Christmas at the Crumpler household*, so I wanted to take this opportunity to wish all my friends here in the Bull Pen a Merry Christmas, or whatever holiday you celebrate this time of year.
It has been a nice Christmas morning. My mom (77) came over about 6:45, and the kids woke up shortly thereafter. When I say kids I mean my daughter (24) who lives across town, and my son (14) who still lives with us.
Highlights: I got Alice a Roku. I wasn't 100% sure what it was, but we hooked it up and are amazed by the content we can now stream. One thing - we have Amazon Prime, which means that hundreds of movies are completely free, as well as dozens and dozens of TV series.
We got Robert a Cirrus 5 bass. It's either a 2000 model or a 2001, but you couldn't tell it wasn't fresh from the factory. It's a U.S. made bass and is both beautiful and a wonderful playing instrument. He's on Cloud Nine.
We had my daughter's favorite rings re-sized. She opened one and was tickled. When all the opening was over, the second ring was nowhere to be found. We looked frantically for close to an hour, then gave up for a while. She was sitting on the couch sorting through some wrapping tissue, and there it was. A Christmas miracle.
I got my Forecaster, which I will read next week while recovering from surgery. One thing I did peek at, though. If you look in the back on Page 280 at PQS Across America, the very first license plate shown is mine. PQSFIVE from Arkansas. As a Baseball HQ fan since the early 90s, I was tickled.
Alice is cooking a big Christmas dinner, and my old roomie from college days is coming by to share it with us. So, it will be a nice evening.
So, I just wanted to share a little with the fellow Junkies and wish you all the best.
*I'll be in the hospital from the 22nd through the 25th (at least), so we decided to have Christmas early rather than try to have it in a hospital room. The kids were good with it, provided we do everything just like Christmas. So, on Christmas Eve we had all the traditional goodies, Christmas music, Christmas music, etc. The morning was the same, very traditional except for the date. I think it worked out well, all in all.
I hope lots of others will share their holiday experiences, in this thread or elsewhere.
It has been a nice Christmas morning. My mom (77) came over about 6:45, and the kids woke up shortly thereafter. When I say kids I mean my daughter (24) who lives across town, and my son (14) who still lives with us.
Highlights: I got Alice a Roku. I wasn't 100% sure what it was, but we hooked it up and are amazed by the content we can now stream. One thing - we have Amazon Prime, which means that hundreds of movies are completely free, as well as dozens and dozens of TV series.
We got Robert a Cirrus 5 bass. It's either a 2000 model or a 2001, but you couldn't tell it wasn't fresh from the factory. It's a U.S. made bass and is both beautiful and a wonderful playing instrument. He's on Cloud Nine.
We had my daughter's favorite rings re-sized. She opened one and was tickled. When all the opening was over, the second ring was nowhere to be found. We looked frantically for close to an hour, then gave up for a while. She was sitting on the couch sorting through some wrapping tissue, and there it was. A Christmas miracle.
I got my Forecaster, which I will read next week while recovering from surgery. One thing I did peek at, though. If you look in the back on Page 280 at PQS Across America, the very first license plate shown is mine. PQSFIVE from Arkansas. As a Baseball HQ fan since the early 90s, I was tickled.
Alice is cooking a big Christmas dinner, and my old roomie from college days is coming by to share it with us. So, it will be a nice evening.
So, I just wanted to share a little with the fellow Junkies and wish you all the best.
*I'll be in the hospital from the 22nd through the 25th (at least), so we decided to have Christmas early rather than try to have it in a hospital room. The kids were good with it, provided we do everything just like Christmas. So, on Christmas Eve we had all the traditional goodies, Christmas music, Christmas music, etc. The morning was the same, very traditional except for the date. I think it worked out well, all in all.
I hope lots of others will share their holiday experiences, in this thread or elsewhere.
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