Merry Christmas Eve

Santa is coming tonight. Turned out the cops were as well.

We were over at Nick's Aunts tonight for Christmas Eve supper. I was drinking a little bit of wine and ended up feeling really sick from it. If I ever think of drinking again, just say "Christmas eve". I don't want to drink any more but I'll miss wine. Maybe I will have a couple of ounces if it's really good wine but that's it. I still feel sick and we left Sue & Jim's an hour ago.

As we pull up to the apartment, there is a cop car sitting up the street (near jasper ave in front of the old church); there is another one sitting in the driveway that we use to get underground;there is a third parked on the lawn; there are two more parked on the street in front of the building. We figured that since we couldn't access our parking spot this evening we would just use one of the visitor spots. As we drive around back, another cop car is parked behind the building. If everybody is counting, we're up to 6. We park and go in the back door where we are intercepted by our landlord, RJ. RJ says that we are going to have to use the stairs and to not be surprised when we pass the fifth floor. Turns out that it's a bit of a problem that we live on the fifth floor. We were going to have to wait to get upstairs.

While we were standing there waiting, it was disclosed to us that there was a major drug bust going on in the apartment right across from the elevators. (For those of you who were here on Saturday night, this was also the commotion in the hallway and the cause of the broken light.) Yikes! They led these two women passed us while we were waiting in the back hall of the building. They were drug whores if I have ever seen drug whores. More Yikes, but directly for them.

We stand and wait, and wait. RJ finally talks to one of the officers and gains us an escort up to our apartment. That was a good thing because I was still really not feeling well. This cute cop takes the elevator with us to the 4th floor and then walks us up the stairs to the 5th. We have two cops standing there watching the hallway away from us while Nick unlocked the door. It was closed and locked before we even had a light on. While Nick was unlocking the door, I turned and looked down the hallway. Curiosity. There was a cop crouched at the corner with an assault rifle. In my hallway.

Curiosity won out once we had a door between us and the danger and a assault rifle at an angle were it would have killed the bad guy before he was able to shoot towards us. We watched at the spy hole and listened. They brought in police dogs. They broke down the guy's door after changing their positions and shouting "We are going to send in dogs. You may be bitten." Other than that it was actually pretty quiet. Not all loud like in the movies.

We had an officer knock on our door just a little bit ago to say that it was all taken care of and that he was out of the building. The management is changing the lock on that suite. What a way to get evicted and what a day for it to happen. RJ has said that if we hear any commotion in the hallway this evening, we are supposed to call him right away and that he would take care of it. He basically asked us to be his ears up here tonight and possibly for the next little while. I don't mind as long as it keeps everybody in the building safe. We are so going to be hightailing it out of the building tomorrow morning.

I'm loosing my ability to create sentences. Suffice to know that everything is okay and everybody is accounted to right down to their little toes.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

Really, I have been in town and able to reach and use my computer

Wow, Nov 22 was the last time that I wrote and now it is Dec 23. Yes, a sunday, and I'm up way to early. Woo Hoo for finally achieving regular sleeping patterns. I feel better over all and am having an easier time waking up in the morning (the good), but now I'm conistantly up earlier the sun (the bad) and by 10 o'clock at night, 10:30 at the latest, I really need to go and curl up under my blanky and nap (the ugly). No more late nights for me.

I have no good excuse, or even a bad one, as to why I haven't written. My computer works. My fingers weren't broken. I was reading some really good books as of late, but that doesn't account for a lot. No excuse so we'll just leave it as I didn't. I'm not filling in the last month of missing time either.

Last night we held christmas for the supper club. My sweety whipped up an amazing meal (every girl should only date boys who can cook; buying dinner does not count as cooking). We exchanged presents. Joce left just shortly after 9, J/O left by 9:30, and we threw Mark out at about 10:15. Look at us go. I don't even want to know what would happen if we tried to pull an all-nighter. I guess we are going to have to start things earlier in the afternoon so that we have sufficient time to enjoy each others company.

The solstist was yesterday. Can you ever tell. It's just about 8:30 and the sun is just getting out of bed. Nick however is not. He has to do some serious sleeping once a week. It's good for him.

There is some rushed crazyness coming up. It's called Christmas and I'm always sad when it's gone. Here is a quick summary because I doubt I'll get, or want, to write it in full detail:

• I have a half day of work tommorrow. The original question was are you working the 24th; I said a half day and there isn't really anybody to debate that and tell me I should work more. Everybody else that I'm working with is working till 5PM and actually working. Yuck! One of the benefits of being temp. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing and neither know what I'm doing until I send in my time sheet every two weeks. :)
• We're spending Christmas eve with Nick's family. Last year we tried this whole running around idea. We did my christmas eve, his christmas eve, his christmas morning, my christmas morning, his families christmas day supper. And honestly, we didn't enjoy any of it. This year, one family at a time.
• Christmas morning is going to be a little bit hecktic though. We are waking up here (I had to fight to makesure that this detail was in the plan). Then we are going to run to Nick's parents place and do christmas there. The reason for this is that Nick's Grandma, who does christmas morning with them, is already 82. We don't know how much longer she is going to last. If Nick missed christmas morning he would regret it. I can understand that so we are going to blast over there and do a really quick christmas with them. And then we are going to my parents, hopefully for 10:30 or 11 at the latest. And we are spending the rest of christmas day with my family. I know that eventually life will get sorted so that we spend one evening at his parents and one even with mine and christmas morning will become something that we do with our family (me, him, pets, kids). But that's a ways off. Being the first serious couple in either family, we have to ask our families to make some comprimises at the moment.
• And then we're both off till the 2nd of Jan.
• We have a play to go to on the 27th.
• The useless party with his family is on the 29th.
• I'm supposed to get together with MO somewhere in there
• New years is at J/O's
• I have to work the 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
• Pole dancing starts again on the 4th.
• School starts on the 7th. I'm looking forward to that!

I'm going to go and play a game or something. I'll try to write more often, or at least have a better excuse next time I don't.

Adios