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Gaaaa - aaaa-aaaa..

What is it about the holiday season that tends to eat your (my) soul and spit it out again somewhere mid-January laughing maddly about how it has consumed your entire life for a month and a half... Eversince the whole gearing up for Turkeyday time, I've been witout time to do all the simple things like return phone calls, and post blog entries. And the worst part of it is, I can't seem to figure out where, precisely, that time has gone. I mean there are the standards -work, the choir rehesals, laundry, concerts, plays, trips home the parents for the annual cookie baking bonanza, the trip to my sisters for Thanksgiving - and the seasonal time suckers - scraping my windshield, hauling bot window airconditioners down 4 flights into the storage locker in the basement, sealing the windows off against the cold, digging the snowboots out of storage, diging the oh-so-cute mini Christmas tree out of storage, burrowing under the down blankets when I get home to resume some sembelance of warmth, lecturing my dog on how if she'd only let me put her stupid little doggie boots on she wouldn't have to limp aournd playing the most pitiful tiny violin in the world (three words PIT_E_FULL).