Merry Christmas

I don't remember the last time it snowed on Christmas morning. So not only do we get a white Christmas this year, but one that could have come straight from a movie! Couldn't have planned it better.

This year I was more creative than usual in my gift-giving. I did the normal gifts for my parents/siblings that I bought at stores, but I also took on a time-consuming project of scanning old pictures and assembling them into slide shows and burning them all onto DVD. All told it was about 500 pictures, and even then most of the kids were severely underrepresented for their slide shows. I also put these pictures onto 2 GB flash drives and put them on digital photo frames for my parents.

I also made the mistake of wrapping these gifts myself. I am convinced that I am the least-skilled gift-wrapper in the history of mankind. I had trouble wrapping even the individual DVD's in their cases. On some of the bigger gifts the paper would actually start tearing as I was trying to wrap it around the gift. I soon discovered that, contrary to what I had thought, no amount of scotch tape can fix a bad wrapping job. Most gifts looked like someone had opened the present early and then sloppily attempted to cover up the crime. I think I went through like a roll and a half of wrapping paper just on gifts for my fam (8 in all). Ah well, it's what's on the inside that counts, right? See? It was just an object lesson. All part of the plan.