holiday fun

Christmas this year was both the usual and different.

The usual: blustery, mild and wet.
Different: It actually cleared up and the sun came out for a little while.

The usual: I hate traveling due to the usual blustery conditions.
Different: I didn’t travel this year, instead choosing to celebrate the holiday with Jeff here in New West.

Overall it was a pretty good day. I slept in a little, lazed around and watched some TV, opened presents, did a brisk 7K walk to make up for the lazing around part, had a real turkey dinner with all the fixings and even with dessert (chocolate ice cream) amazingly came in under my calorie count for today.

Given that as an adult I generally hate this holiday, I figured it went pretty well.

Here’s a few pictures I took of Jeff and Jason (who he is a Big Brother to — not the Orwell kind of big brother, the ‘helping out a kid without a dad in his life’ kind) putting up the Christmas tree. I officially helped because I placed two bulbs and, I think, a candy cane.

I’m not sure what Jeff was doing in the fourth shot but I took my best guess.