December 23, 2006

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  A Ca-cough-ony of Christmas
  
  I have discovered that Equate’s version of Robatussin cough syrup has the same effect on me as caffeine. 
  
  My mom and I had a great day of shopping yesterday.  We ate “lunch” at Perkins (if you can call a piece of lemon meringue pie and half a banana nut muffin lunch!), supper at Olive Garden, and a yummy mall snack of a berry smoothie and a cookie. Mmmm!  We got back to her house around 11:30 p.m. and I discovered that David was lying in the bed where TGD usually sleeps.  “Hey, why are you here?” I wondered.  “I can’t (hack, cough) sleep.”  He and I each had a small dose of cough medicine (a Triaminic dissolve-on-your-tongue strip) and turned out the lights. Thirty minutes of almost solid coughing noises from the two of us then began. The silences were punctuated with loud snores from Poppy in the next room.
  
  At 12:00, my desperate, sleepy mother came in.  “You know, my friend swears that if you rub U… (some name of ointment) on your feet, you’ll stop coughing.”  David and I took the “sort of like Vicks, except it smelled like pine” ointment and anointed our feet.
  
  After another half-hour of coughing, I gave David a dose of NyQuil and myself a dose of cough syrup.  He fell asleep within 20 minutes.  My road to sleep did not follow the same map.  Although my coughing slowed to one bout every ten to fifteen minutes, sleep eluded me.  The last time I remembered looking at the clock was at 4:35 a.m., which means that I probably fell asleep around 4:45 a.m.
  
  Why didn’t I just get out of bed?  Well, the Hunter was sleeping downstairs in the living room, and I was SURE I’d fall asleep soon.  (Even though I knew better.)
  
  So, today has been a tired day, yet much fun.
  
  This afternoon, we had Christmas at my dad’s house. My stepmom and sisters are excellent cooks. They served us minestrone and chicken noodle soups, stromboli, and cookies.  The kids were impressed as they set the table with wine glasses, and we all had “kid wine” (sparkling grape juice).    Ashley, my college-freshman sister, chooses the gifts for my kids, and she’s an excellent shopper.  Nathan got a gift card (useful for the hunter). David got art supplies and a computer game, Safe Cracker.  Libby was thrilled with black dress boots with four-inch heels and several books.  Michael got several nifty games–20Q (a twenty questions hand-held game) and Speed Stacker.  Did you know that there is a world federation of cup stackers? I had no idea. This game has twelve plastic cups, a mat, and a timer (all official regulation stuff!) and you stack cups in various ways. We’ve had a lot of fun with it so far.  Rachel got a dog that makes all sorts of noise and has vet supplies.  Little nurse/vet girl was thrilled. She also got a pair of boots (pink suede with no heel!) and a Klutz nail polish kit.

  TGD and Libby
  are presenting special music at church tomorrow. TGD will sing and
  Libby play the flute. Since David is running a fever, I won’t be
  there, I fear.
  
  Jokes!
  
  For MathMom:  What’s brown and sneaks around the kitchen?
  Mince spies
  
  For Memof6: What the most special part of the body at Christmas?
  The Mistletoe
  
  For ElizabethDNB (who doesn’t know of such things, surely): How does Jack Frost travel to work?
  By icicle
  
  For AJ1965:  How does Good King Wenceslas like his pizza?
  Deep and crisp and even
  
  For all the Kroekers: What carol is heard in the desert?
  O Camel Ye Faithful
  
  Especially for GhostFroggy:  What do you get when you cross a snowman with
  a vampire?
  Frostbite
  
  For the Hunter: What do you get when you cross an archer with a gift-wrapper?
  
  Ribbon hood.
  
  For KID and the Godfather: What did Adam say the on the night before Christmas?
  It’s Christmas, Eve!
  
  For Avaricewrex and RJDohner and the Hand: How do Mexican sheep say Merry Christmas?
  Fleece Navidad!

  For EnglishWestern and Non Sequiturian: How many Surrealists does it take to decorate a Christmas tree?
  The fish

  For Words_are_Things and Mamaglop: What do you have in December that you don’t have in any other month?
  The letter D.

  For everyone else who should have had a personalized joke and didn’t get one because I couldn’t find any more amusing ones:
  Knock, knock.
  Who’s there?
  Mary
  Mary Who?

  Mary Christmas!
  
  
  

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