This is really old. I mean like "I drew this in March" old. But I told cookie I'd post it, so here it is. Then again, I also told her I would get started on that canvas thing.. do not ask how that went. Maybe tonight?! (I actually had a funny-to-me Idea for something a few days ago, but I could not figure out how to work it out. I don't know.. I may revisit it though. You know, because I hate to let a good idea go to waste. Keeping with the "two months late" theme, you should expect it around 7/5 or so.)

In some circles it's a holiday (not here, I only do the one with candy, the one with turkey and the one with the tree that probably should have been taken down about two months ago, but is still standing in the living room as I type), and that gave me an idea. A good idea? Maybe. Probably not. But it made me laugh, so I went with it. Perhaps I should not have said that. That's okay, you know you want to look anyway.

It's only 2:55 and I am already sleepy. But I have only been up like 2 hours. My sister kept coming in here all "Are you up?! Time to get up!"... hounding me about opening presents. (She is 20, not 10) The thing is, cult compound release time had yet to arrive, and I don't open anything unless all parties are present. So, Ma and the sister opened everything while i was back here still trying to wake up (and research turkey-coking information). Which means that half of the presents here are open, and the others are not. But, cult members don't get as many presents as actual people seen on a regular basis, so most of those are not even for here. And everything for me came from the same store (and, as it was a book store, it is pretty obvious what they are), so I am now in no rush for opening things. I may wait until tomorrow.. you know, spread it out!

This is all very weird, because when she woke me up (the second time, I was having a dream about how the Opening of the Presents fell apart due to cult-related activities... so perhaps my subconscious was on to something. Hmm.... Shall  I preemptively declare this the Most Underwhelming Christmas Ever? Perhaps. This stands until I get the food complete and the holiday specials on the television. It will still be Underwhelming, but at least it will then have food and good tv!

Other holiday-related things I have yet to do include: putting ornaments on the tree, getting the boxes out of the living room, finding more lights for the front of the house, buying presents, wrapping presents and mailing the Christmas cards. But, I did pay the cable bill, put the tree up and take the turkey out of the freezer. So really, the important things are done.

So, like I said, here is another one. It seems the "every other day" system fell apart. I think there are ::counts:: four left and ::counts again:: six days. I am not sure how that is gonna work out, but I know it will. It always does.

Wait. There are only seven days until Christmas? What happened to December? I could have sworn that the last day I actually remember looking at the date it was the 12th. What is even sadder is that I own no less than four calendars (the Peanuts one is not even up, the bizarre photography one on the back of the door is on ::looks:: July, the super-hard mathematical sudoku desk calendar is probably under the bed and the last time I remember actually using the Latin-Phrase-A-Day one, it was Hourly Comic Day... meaning it was February 1st. I should own a Get Fuzzy one too -- I get one every year --so that would be five calendars and still no idea of the date. This may be an issue.)

Anyway, I have fallen behind on these again, so the next one should go up sometime after midnight. I won't say who it is, but it does have something in common with this one and the last one. And now, off to Christmas cards. Every year I plan to "get them out early"... every year I fail.

You know what? Last week when I engaged in the Epic Two-Day Struggle To Put Up The Christmas Lights, I found the Christmas tree. This may not sound like a big event, but "searching for the Christmas tree" is an annual event around these parts. It is the same tree we have had for ~*ages*~, it gets relentlessly mocked by my sister, but I stand by it. (Because I have known it longer than I have known her. It has Seniority!) Some years it's in he attic. Some years it's in the basement. It have been shoved in the hall closet, the kitchen closet and her (now my) bedroom closet. One year it stayed up until November. Then I took it down, only to put it back up a week later. (Because "putting up the Christmas tree" is something that must happen every year. There is no "well, it's already up, so let's just leave it there. That is "crazy talk".) One year, we bought a real tree. Did it replace the old tree? Of course not, we just had two trees!

Anyway, as I was saying, a few days ago, I found the tree. And the living room is still full of boxes, so there is no room for the tree (plus, I am not sure of the whole tree is in the box. I should look into that.) so I left it outside in a box.... in the yard. It has been raining all day, and, according to weather.com it's 34 degrees out. I am pretty sure my poor tree is covered in ice. This means that now, I have to go outside, drag the tree (and the cardboard box) inside, shake it out and put it in the bathtub. I predict at least one Level One Disastrophe will be involved. Plus, I want to watch TV. Do you know where my extension cord is? (Hint: I bet it's cold) I am pretty sure it's officially Out of Commission. Oh well, to the yard! It's times like this when I wish I actually owned a coat!

Oh yeah, here is a completely random holiday image.

Only about 50 minutes into the day and I am posting? Wow. This may be because I have something else I may post later, but I am unsure. It all depends on how many other posts show up tonight. I can't be back-to-back on anyone's friends page... that's not cool.

Then again, perhaps it is only fitting that grad school-related work got in the way as I was trying to finish this one and get it posted. Note to grad school students: your friends do not want to read your papers. Especially not if it is due in 5 hours and you are freaked out because you just read the assignment and are worried that you did not exactly follow the directions. It is too late, we are not students and 9 times out of 10, we don't even know what the class is about. (10 times out of 10 we don't care!) Plus, maybe we were working on something!

I am about a week behind on my LJ duties! I keep running into things I need to read and/or comment on! Squerb's recap! Cookie's recap! Tuesday's question meme! I have three personal canons to type up! I am pretty sure if I don't make my way over to the Spillcap, Bean will put a hit out on me! And, my Wikipedia band stuff is sitting half-neglected in one of those Posts Only I Can See! This is not cool!

And I am already two days late on this, and it's only the second one in! Luckily, the next one is about 90% done. But I don't double-post, so there is one in here now, and the other goes up after I wake up.. on its actual Officially designated day. Then, one I have yet to start, one that is half done, one that is just a sketch, two more that are half-done and one that I have not even really settled on a character for. Good times! Oh well, as I told resol, I can't really think of anything to say, so...

So, okay.. remember a few weeks ago, when there was the big Post of Mystery all about Heroes and Holidays and all that? The one with the super secret screened comments and the "What's going on here?!" "Never mind!" and all that? And then the follow-up all about how everyone and their mother said either "2.Mohinder 3. Nathan" or "2.Nathan, 3.Mohinder"? Well, here is the part where it starts to maybe, hopefully make sense.