Christmas!

I hope y'all had a fantastic Christmas! Full of family and good cheer, and no guns.

We had some of the former, and some of the latter too! My nieces could be with us only on Christmas Eve, so we opened gifts on the 24th, a huge break from tradition for us. We rallied, however, and had a very good time.

Come Christmas, though, it was just me and my parents and not much to do, so we spent most of the day on the couch, watching movies. Towards the end of Red Eye, when there's lots of action stuff happening, my mom said "hey, was that a gunshot?" I've seen this movie before, and I knew there were no guns at this part, so I thought she had just mis-heard the chair falling over on-screen.

Apparently not! Turns out the guy down the street told his son-in-law to get off his property, SIL refused, so FIL shot him! I felt sorry for the kids running around the cars parked out front whose parents had not the presence of mind to get them out of danger, as FIL was still waving a gun around out on the front lawn. Tragedy turned to sad comedy when one of the two or three hysterical women started yelling at the news crew that showed up and then decided to block the street so that the news guy couldn't come any farther. She managed to block not only the news crew that had no intention of going any farther, but also the ambulance, and second fire truck and patrol car that showed up a little later. And then she couldn't find the keys to her Suburban.

The rest of my Christmas vacation was pretty much me spending all the money I had, in a patriotic effort to single-handedly pay off the national debt. But now I have flannel sheets! And I LOVE THEM.

ps:
SIL will live, he was shot in the shoulder. And FIL, according to the local paper, will not be charged. I guess he was within his rights?