Chugging the Holiday Spirits

On the THIRD attempted weekend, we finally got our Christmas decorations up in the yard. If you recall from last year, we actually put ours in the BACK yard, so Melissa can see them from her window.




Matthew is now out of school for the remainder of the year. And I have no vacation days left. Even when you're a telecommuter, you still feel it when there is no one else in the "Office". Just you, toiling away, getting out-of-office responses for everything you ask or need from people. *sigh*

But back to Matthew for a moment. I've long wished I could draw so I could illustrate some of the exchanges that we have, but that is just not in the cards. So I've gone for the free web application XtraNormal to provide this... in a highly abstract form. Below is the actual conversation I had with him this weekend: