about 4 hours from now Kara and I are off to spend Christmas with her mother. Christmas with my Mother-in-law... my first.

For any of you thinking to yourself that Christmas with the Mother-in-Law has got to suck, and you're feeling bad for me, you've obviously never met my Mother-in-Law.

She's a fun fun lady, and a "good head".  And other than the initial "she's your girlfriend's Mother" you have to not like each other schtick, I've really liked her from the start.

So for the next 12 days or so I'm going to be celebrating Christmas and New Years with  my Mother-in-Law, her boyfriend Don, and of course Mrs. It gets even better... really. M-i-L is an officer in the USN. Stationed at Pearl Harbor.


So before you feel too bad, check the weather first. :-)

In the movie "The Recruit" Colin Farrell's character gets the best line in the flick. During one of his CIA entrance interviews he is asked if he has ever been intentionally cruel to animals. He responds with something the the effect of:

"Yes... I once dressed my dog up with reindeer antlers and took a picture of him."

Well...


I guess...


I'm doubly guilty...


Well actually...


Make that thrice...

I wish I had video and sound for that last one. That little snowman sings a little song and it drives Pride nuts. He picks it up and carries it around with him. He's incredibly gentle with it. Unlike his brother who I'm pretty sure holds the international record for reducing a stuffed animal into the most number of its individual components within the 7 second time limit. He's also the only dog I've ever heard of actually destroying the "Lifetime Guaranteed" indestructable dog toy... twice.  He still can carry the groceries... I think. Haven't actually tried that with him in a pretty long time though. We'll have to put that early training to the test again as soon as we get back. When he was about a year old or so I started walking to the store with him and getting him to carry the bag home. At least part of the way anyhow. He hated it at first but then once he got the hang of it, and developed a fan club for his abilities he seemed to actually enjoy it.