Visual Bonsai

Just kidding. Happy belated Christmas (oops, are we allowed to say that anymore)? I watched a great bit last night on Jon Stewart or some other show. Dubya was trying to wish everyone happy holidays, and he kept getting it wrong. “Happy Harmonica!”

Guess you had to see it …

We went to Omaha for the holidays. It was a great time. Our card playing cohorts were mostly out of town, and Dawn is carrying junior around, so it was more tame than usual, which meant more time with la familia. So, some notes:

Becky got to kick our ass in Hearts for twice as long as usual.

We ate waffles til we wanted to go back to bed.

The dogs tried to maul each other, again.

Charlie (cha cha) showed off his new found mobility and lady killing looks. (esteefamily.blogspot.com)

Jeff got boxers.

The baby got 75 lbs of clothes.

Jeff got in 36 holes of Disc Golf (thanks Dawn and Kenny)

Cleo got to run for 36 holes.

Squirrels that had near death experience during that time: 93

We ate more waffles.

Had some cookies.

Had some chocolate.

Went to Casa el Kirk Sr. for Christmas dinner.

Only missed 9:34 of first quarter of Bears game.

Brett Favre interceptions: 4

Pounds of overall food eaten by Jeff: 4 (coincidence?)

Bloody Mary’s before dinner: 8 (8 people, I didn’t drink them all ok?)

Quote heard during that time:

“God Damn what’s in those Jeff?”

(Sorry I didn’t make it to the grocery store for the “fullon” bloody experience. We had to make do with limited materials)

Detailed perusual of Kirk Sr’s photo albums from 77-81. Awesome pics.

I still say that wasn’t Kenny in those pics, Dawn will back me up on that

Let me back up a sec. Now that I’m thinking about it, it was a slow weekend, comparitavely to our usual trip. I laugh when I say this because:

8 hr drive, in at 3pm Fri.

Dinner at 5

Go to Dana’s at 7 (congrats Dana!)

To bar at 8 to meet everyone

Home at 1am

Up at 7:30. Breakfast at HyVee

No idea what I did during the day, just remember I was tired.

Oh yeah, went over to Estees

Dawn went shopping

Brought me home fris golf discs

1:30-3 fris golf

Back to Dons

Blurry recollection here. Think we went back to Estee’s? Help me out

Sun morning 9am Estee’s for waffles (mmm…)

10 went looking for groceries and stuff for christmas dinner

Nothing open

Back to Estees

12 noon go to play fris golf with Kenny

2pm get ready for xmas dinner

3pm xmas dinner

7 back to Estees for presents

9 pm cards til 11 or so

Mon. morning loaded up truck

Tried to find place to eat, couldn’t..

Burger king then 8hr drive home, got in at 8.

That’s it. I’m now my Dad. Game over. (just kidding dad, i couldn’t keep up with you if Dubya legalized stem cell research and I cloned my vacation self 5 times)

Happy Harmonica everyone!

(oh, by the way, dave barry quit his column and is now blogging. hmmm…)

(oh again, Bing and Jo sent me an almond macaroon kringle…life is good again! you know those Hertz rental car commercials where the celebrities think that they’re getting special treatment cuz they’re famous? but really, Hertz treats everyone that way? that’s me with my kringle.)