Sunday, January 09, 2005

Only 349 more shopping days 'til Christmas

Today, we celebrated the last bit of Christmas in our home for the year of 2004. Again. Heather and I, along with her parents and brother, Josh, closed out the ‘04 Yuletide season this afternoon. I am going to be having a good ol' time with the Husqvarna chainsaw that I was given by the folks. But hey, wait a minute... this means more work for me. Darn it. They tricked me, those devious little… ahem… wonderful in-laws. Okay, I seriously need the chain saw to clean up the brush this spring and I am very appreciative, all kidding aside. I truly am part of the family, and what a gracious family it is. I don’t even say that with the assumption that Heather's parental units will be reading this at some point in time. They really are warm, welcoming and caring, and I am just one of the family when they are here.

Josh headed home a bit ago so he can work in the morning, but the future Nana and Papa Jusko will be with us until tomorrow when they head home to Indiana. I edited all the Christmas pictures that were taken today. I even resurrected our website this weekend, though in a new location on the web. After I renew and edit the content, I will post the URL here for those who might be interested. Among other things, I put in a page for the baby announcement (which says "no news yet" but stay tuned).

Holy mackerel. The Packers got their behinds kicked all over Lambeau, by the Vikings, no less. My nephew said he had a funny feeling the Vikings would win the game. You called it, Marty. Good job! I am not making any predictions for the NFC Division game against the Eagles, other than to say "it would take a miracle for the Vikings to win that one" but anything is possible if more than a bit unlikely. I would love to see Daunte have another career game. Regarding the division game, Rush was right on target. Donovan McNabb IS highly overvalued, though the Eagles have more than enough cohesiveness to make the odds of the Vikings winning against them uncertain. Still... with nothing to lose and everything to gain, I want the Vikings to kick some Philadelphia Beagle caboose and give 'em hell. Moss and other key players aren’t in good health so the odds are against a win for the Minnesota Moving Company. At this point, who cares?


Go Vikings!

By the way... it is now only 8,377 hours, or 30,158,756 seconds until Christmas. I need to either take down the Christmas tree soon or make up my mind to leave it up since Christmas is just around the corner.


Good night.