Your family doesn't deserve you, Tom. You deserve better and they should appreciate you.

My Christmas has been good. I'm very carefully skirting around politics this time. I fly back tomorrow, and I'm ready for milder weather and my own bed.

So I figured out the Menorah issue. It is Christmas tree or Menorah, not both. Apparently they share an extension cord. So they had the Menorah on for the time to light another light earlier, then the Christmas tree went back on and the Menorah went dark. So much for Hanukkah Miracle of Light. I brought a power strip with me I could lend them.

hahaha the pouty child who refused to eat is now hungry and wanted me to order papa johns with his Christmas $$ (when we have 2 frozen pizzas in the freezer that are the exact same toppings) - BUTTTTTT papajohns is closed. Wah Wah Wah - wrong day to throw a piss fit of spoiled child.

So the spreadsheet I drew up, showing if he did his weekly chore plus other things to earn $$ (and I have told him I will match anything he save btw now and his birthday in April) - he could be to $1200 easily by his birthday. Probably get $100 more then, and if he really started trying to get $$ and went to clean for g'ma once a week, my guess is he would be at or above $1500.

Being sensible and practical to achieve goals doesn't sound as likely as pouting and being miserable. I am sorry. This learning lessons stuff could be so much easier if they listened to the older and wiser!

We did not get to Die Hard today. We watched RED which Mom loved and was upset we didn't have the sequel. I promised her I'd get it when I returned these dvds.

I forgot High Society was a remake of Philadelphia Story. It was ok but I love Philadelphia Story and it was hard not to mentally hear the original version.

I also colored and half watched Midsole Murders.

We had a nice day here! Took a cab to church, and then my mother's minister took us to the nursing home, where we saw our usual lunch buddies, and then we all came back and ate last night's leftovers, which were a big hit all over again. The minister liked the tourtiere, which he had never had before! And then maybe he went to someone else's house for a roast beef dinner, which is hilarious.

My mom and I watched White Christmas and the Call the Midwife Christmas special. If anyone else watched it and didn't get the "all hands on the pump" reference, I would be glad to talk about John Snow here, too (or you can just google him yourself).

I would like to try tourtiere! It sounds yummy to me. I ate too much candy today. At all the movies. Now reading Yuletide.

I watched Zootpia last night and Deadpool today. I have taken the dogs to my room shuttle door and aN posting from my new Kindle Fire.

I would like to try tourtiere! It sounds yummy to me.

It's so good! But I get that it would be too different for some people.

I set my DVR to record the Doctor Who Christmas special, but what little I've seen since coming home leads me to believe I should wait until I have a longer hall from which to watch it.