My brother arrived around 6:30pm last night from Kansas – he had a 3 hour layover in Charlotte than his plane got delayed…seems to happen any time you fly anymore. He’ll be here until December 29th (leaves around 8pm I think). Alan comes in at 11:30pm on Wednesday and will be here until January 1st (leaves at 6am) – we’re going to have a full house for a week but I couldn’t be happier. Having my brother living in Kansas makes me miss him actually and it nice when he does visit or I visit Kansas because I only get to see him maybe once a year…twice if I’m lucky. I don’t particularly like going to Kansas anymore though because there are a lot of old memories that come back EVERY TIME I go to Lawrence that I can’t seem to get rid of – those “I wonder what it would be like if…” kind of memories, but now as the years have passed I wouldn’t have things any other way at this point in my life.

I have to finish Christmas shopping, gogo me waiting until the LAST damn minute and waiting until Christmas Eve at that, lol. I have to pick up one or two more things for Alan, haven’t exactly decided , before he comes in because I don’t want to deal with it on the 26th. Around 6pm or so, I’ll be going over to my grand parents house to do presents and eat with the rest of our immediate family. There’s never enough time in the day on Christmas Day so we’ve been doing gift opening with our immediate family on Christmas Eve since the extended family comes over to my grand parents on Christmas Day. I’m glad Christmas is almost here but at the same time…it doesn’t even FEEL like Christmas, partly due to weather, partly due to age I suppose – I miss Santa Claus

PS: If you’re buying a house, decorating a house, or just want to change your exterior lightingto something cool looking, I’d have a look at the site I linked – I’ve visited before and think they have some really neat looking fixtures to fix up any house!