The Holiday Weekend in Review...

[mrlich]

Saturday: I spent most of the day on Saturday stressing needlessly. I kept waiting for my pager to go off since I was on call. I ran around like a madman with my family doing virtually all of my Christmas presents. Managed to get just about everything I needed to get and then went home.

And proceeded to pass out.

Not sure what the deal was, but I just simply could not keep my eyes open. I woke up at 3am and wrapped all my presents for the next day. Err... that day. Oh hell- you get the point.

Sunday: Christmas day was an absolute blast. It was the first time in my life that I had the opportunity to celebrate Christmas twice and Hanukka once. My family and I got a later-than-normal start, and that pushed things back a little, but nothing too extravagant. After my family and I did the whole 'unwrap presents and spend some quality time together' (including my brothers playing pranks on each other with a Chippendales calendar) I headed to NJ to join the lovely xtingu and her family. They have an uncanny knack for making me feel extremely welcome and just... well... great - and the food was much with the yum. Then off to her brother and sister in law's place for some of the Festival of Lights. This is another excellent household with ridiculously talented and fun people. xtingu's nephew and nieces are so charming and cute that it defies description. There are pictures somewhere, but I don't have any of them. I'll post a link if/when I have them.

In the wee hours of the morning, we headed back to Deleware to recover.

Until I got that phone call.

Monday: I received two separate phone calls from my youngest brother prior to 9am. At first I figured he was just excited about something he got from his girlfriend for Christmas and was dying to tell me about it. Which, of course, made me want to kill him. (Not really - he's cool beyond words, but it was before 9 frickin o'clock!!!)

Now I'll start by saying that he's alright - he'll be fine eventually - but my father had been in an accident. Nothing too traumatic, and the damage was minimal (strained/bruised muscles in his back) but we didn't really know that at the time. He had gone over the edge of the driveway, and since we live on the side of a mountain... well... that's bad. He came to an abrupt halt when he hit a tree.

As a side note - it often amuses me when I see things like this - not loved ones in an accident, but rather when Mother Nature says: "Oh, did you think that you could affect me? Allow me to demonstrate just how not the case that is..." Truck = large rolling metal machine - in 4x4. Meet tree. Truck stops. Dad probably said something like "Ouch." (He's kinda a tough-guy.)

Anywho - so I make a b-line for Pa, and when I get home Dad's already back from the hospital. No x-rays or anything (which seemed odd to me - but what the hell do I know?). Glad Dad's okay, but was kinda bummed because I had hoped to help xtingu with some stuff around her place. (Which she more than managed all on her own, btw.)

Anywhoozle - that's the short(ish) version of my holiday weekend. Hope it was at least as grand for all of you and I look very forward to seeing many of you at  jeremym's shindig. You are all going riiiiiight? Yeah? Kick ass - notify him. No? Damn. Notify him.

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[xtingu]

"Jill, Oh my God, I've gotta go!"
"Huhh? Why? What happened?"
"My Dad drove his truck off a cliff, over some boulders and crashed into a tree!"
"Aaaaigh! Holy Crap! Merry Christmas!"

Still unsure why I said "Merry Christmas."

Anyhoo...
Hey, I still have a giftie for your folks. Don't let me forget!

And, if you talk to Yaissle (sp?), command her to come to Mosk's. And on Sunday we're watching The Hebrew Hammer.. Jerm has crash space, as do I.

Glad to hear your dad is on the mend. Did you guys get the truck moved?

[boutell.livejournal.com]

Eeep! Glad your Dad is okay!

[mrlich.livejournal.com]

Thanks bud.

[duthsu.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodness, hope everything's okay!

Are we going to see you Friday?

[mrlich.livejournal.com]

That depends on how late you're going to be there - Jill and I will be heading out after I get done with work (Jill's talking about taking the day off). I should be back to the Lehigh Valley around 4-5, plus 1.5 hours to Wilmington, plus (I believe) another 1.5 hours to LBI. So 8ish?

[duthsu.livejournal.com]

We're going to be there on the early end- we have friends coming in from Florida for the weekend.

At one point, we WILL have intersecting paths!!!

[mrlich.livejournal.com]

There is still a chance that we'll see you tomorrow. I'm going to bed early and going to go into work extra early in order to try to finish early etc. etc. etc...

Keep your fingers crossed. ;)

[mrlich.livejournal.com]

Holeeeeee crap! I just realized that I never 'friended' you in all this time!

I'm sooo sorry. *kicks self - hard*

Um. There's a lot of posts in my journal that are friends-locked so you've pretty much got War and Peace to read if you're bored.

Again - my appologies. Sometimes I wonder about me.

[ms-violet.livejournal.com]

Jesus Christ! After all that, are you sure your head is still attatched?

Glad everyone's okay, you most of all.

[mrlich.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. We Lichtenwalners are a pretty hearty lot - it takes more than just crashing down the side of some teeny little mountain to do us any real harm. ;)

And thanks.

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear your Dad's okay.
Ouch.

[mrlich.livejournal.com]

Heh. Thanks. It's like I said before - we Lichtenwalners are hardy stock. Takes more than some silly little mountain to really hurt one of us. ;)