Christmas Day - part 1
We opened presents this morning. I’ll bet we’re the only ones, eh?
Mom gave me a hookah from Egypt, with some sticky apple-based tobacco, so Elton and I had to give it a try. And Mom also gave me a stone from Ramses II’s tomb. After all these years, I’ve managed to turn my mother into a criminal! And some day, when those sites are just barren fields, after millions of criminal tourists have picked them clean, I can sell this stone to a museum for a small fortune. Finally, a realistic retirement plan.
Megan gave me a fancy keyboard, which hasn’t arrived yet. What a wife.
Mom, we’ll be over at 6:00 for dinner. Should we bring the hookah?
A few more photos posted later in the afternoon …
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on December 25, 2006 at 11:40 am Mr. Bruce wrote:
Merry Christmas to Doug, Megan, Mahughs, Cats, and Doug’s World voyeurs from around the world! I have enjoyed all of your input and adventures thoughout 2006.
And here’s to decorative add-on fake gas fireplaces. Oh so appreciated when the power goes out!
Happy New Year to All!
-Mr. Bruce-
on December 25, 2006 at 10:32 pm Mom wrote:
Doug,
I didn’t really think of myself as being an outlaw. I was a frustrated tourist who had three tickets to visit tombs at the Valley of the Kings and a very short time to do it before we had to be back on the bus. Then I discovered I had gotten mixed up somewhere and used my third ticket to visit Ramses II’s tomb for the second time. So it was more to get some value for my third ticket that I thought of bringing you a rock from there. Since you see these same type rocks for as far as you can see, I doubt they will be a disappearing item.
Love, Mom M.
on December 25, 2006 at 10:37 pm Doug wrote:
Ah shucks, Mom, I was sort of hoping you had done a Dick Cheney and started working the dark side. Oh well. Love, Doug
on December 27, 2006 at 3:17 pm AUNT MARSHA wrote:
Here, here for the dark side! Don’t let the semantics hold you back from the reality, LaVonne!! If it didn’t come from the gift shop, it was a fast five…and not a half bad present, to boot! Mailed you a card yesterday….forgot to mention that I think I should be part of your entourage next trip—to anywhere. I’m quite clever in gift shops, me. I can assure you WILL get your money’s worth!!
BTW: all the Christmas pics are great…but, one word (yeah, right) about Elt and the pipe: LOOKED PRETTY EXPERIENCED HANDLING IT TO ME. I’LL BE RIGHT OVER. (actually am on line now to do the travel plans for next month)
love to all (not one worthy Christmas comment from GA…sigh)
tia m.
on December 27, 2006 at 5:50 pm Doug wrote:
Hey Marsha, that’s a worthy Christmas comment from Georgia.
Yeah, Elton is a really bad influence on me. Please do come over, so you can help protect my childlike innocence — now that the hair’s gone, it’s all I have left.
on December 29, 2006 at 5:32 am Tom wrote:
Hey, what book is Lynn reading there? It’s a self-published one, whatever it is, and the back cover copy seems pretty, er, interesting.
And we have the exact same red garbage can(s) at our house, too. They’re satisfyingly metal.
on December 29, 2006 at 8:27 am Doug wrote:
Megan’s still asleep, but perhaps later I can convince her to tell us the title of that book — it’s something like “How to Ruin Christmas,” and it’s full of gags like showing up at a Christmas potluck with an empty dish and reminding everyone how many kids are starving, or stealing Christmas decorations from a local mobster’s house and giving them to his neighbors as gifts, stuff like that. Lynn loved it.
Another hit this Christmas season around our house was Sam Harris’s “Letter to a Christian Nation,” although Megan found the bit of obligatory Muslim-bashing at the end (to be fair, you see) left a bad taste in her mouth. Nonetheless, I had her laughing hysterically while reading some of the earlier passages out loud no matter what she says.
on December 30, 2006 at 1:02 pm Lynn wrote:
The book is War on Christmas The official Field Manual
Produced by the super-double-secret consortium of secular, left wing radicals who seek to undermine all that is good and moral and cute.
Here’s a good idea (from the book). Make a surprise obstacle course by finding large rocks, painting them white and scattering them across a local sledding hill.
on December 30, 2006 at 2:23 pm Doug wrote:
Man, my mother-in-law is as evil as they come!