it's the holiday season...whoop-dee-doo and hickory dock!

ok, so i've been gone a long time....dying blog........

i feel i got some splainin' to do...first, shane was gone practically the entire month of november but for thanksgiving...so i was a little busy with working, being a single mom for the month, and tending to the overwhelmingly needy dog. second, about the third day after shane left, our laptop went the way of the buffalo with a dead keyboard and motherboard.

but now i am BACK baby and it's christmas time! *sigh* i love this time of year! but i've got a problem this year...one that can only be solved by writing a dear john letter....


dear "atmospheric conditions" aka the weather,

you know as well as i do that we have a love hate relationship. but this year, you have been driving me absolutely crazy. to quote my current favorite movie "your mood swings are giving me whiplash!"

thank you for the milder summer. not having A/C can make it difficult to withstand your heat that tends to get bottled up in our top floor bedroom, but you definately made an effort to try and not scorch me so much this year. however, our arrangement has always been that about halfway through september you start cutting back on the 90 degree days and give way to the more balmy ones of 75. you kept your temperatures up to 80 degrees until about two weeks ago. do i need to remind you that it is now december? i appreciate your concern that i did not "get enough fresh air the previous summer" and you "were only trying to help" but - sleeveless tops in october so the kiddos can play outside without getting heat stroke is a bit much. as we are on the topic of not keeping your agreements....you have always gotten either extremely cold or snowed on halloween. while, i will not complain too much about the fact that i didn't have to wear a coat while my little girl did her first ever trick-or-treating this year, i will say that you made me out to look like fool as i told my "new to colorado" neightbor that "of course it will snow on halloween - it ALWAYS does." i do not like looking the fool!

thank you for FINALLY snowing once we put up our christmas lights. it's about time! is that all you were waiting for? our christmas lights? if i had known that i would have put them up in october. stop with the freakishly warm days were the kids in the 'hood think it's ok to wear shorts in december and get down to being winter. i know your "official" day isn't till decmber 21st this year but our NORMAL agreement has always been a flexible date in november when it is clear that it is winter. so starting snowing already and you better stop in march when i tell you! GOT IT! if you plan on changing any of our agreements in the future, i want it in writing first. i am cc'ing this to my lawyer.

yours most annoyed

elisa.

my addicitve personality is acting up again...geeeeez

dear stephenie meyer,

your twilight saga has gripped my heart. i am taken back to my own high school years and can now vividly remember just how electric just sitting next to the boy of your dreams was. the anticipation of first kisses and desperately needing to spend every waking moment with your love. your books grew from teenage infatuation to true love and the ultimate commitment to each other...i relived all my feelings for my hubby before we were married and i thank you....it's always good to remember that amazing spark that starts your own personal love story.

i do, however, have a few problems with you. first, my house work, my husband, my child, my parents, my friends, my neighbors, my dog, my personal hygiene, and my job have ALL suffered some degree of neglect because of you. second, it is very inconvenient to randomly sigh whilst thinking of edward and have to explain/or deny why to anyone who asks why you keep sighing and looking off into space with a dreamy expression on your face. third, along the same lines as number two, giggling like a school girl about a fictional character is not healthy. and last, but not least, you ENDED the saga. now what am i going to do. every other book i pick up pales in comparison. i am lost in a literal sea of books-to-be-read without a single one calling out to me to save me. i have even resorted to re-reading the saga. (it is just as good, if not better, the second time around, by the way) i suppose i will have to live with just talking about them over and over to anyone who will listen.

i like you stephenie meyer, but i am a little miffed.

yours mostly affectionately,

elisa.

p.s. the midnight release party for breaking dawn was amazing...i'm so glad we made "team edward" shirts and beat the crap out of those "team jacob" losers ....not really, but i wanted to...consider this a warning lahdeedah...i know where you live!