This whole holiday season has seemed decidedly un-holiday-like… which is just how I like it.  Working in a service industry, my schedule is always wonky, I travel a lot, and I’m often involved in big events, big days, big holidays.  This year, instead of running off to a gig, I got to stay home for both Christmas and New Year’s.  The performer in me was rabidly jealous of everyone hitting the stage downtown, but the husband, father, and lazy lover-of-eggnog in me was jolly as a junebug to stay home, putter around the house, eat junk food, hang out with the kids, and glue shelves together.

Right.  Glue.  A couple weeks or so ago I saw a set of shelves advertised on craigslist – free – big things, looked heavy duty, so I drove across town at 2 am to pick them up.  Turned out they were heavy duty, and just plain heavy, and definitely bigger than I thought – I had to make 2 trips – but they are AWESOME and we can always use the storage space.  A few of the pieces were cracked, so we picked up some wood glue at the store and I’ve been slowly piecing everything together.

The only disadvantage of new shelves is that the whole house has to be re-arranged to fit them in.  There’s a built in advantage in that, though, which I note every time I haul a big box of garbage out of the house.  Garbage that’s been packed and moved three times in the last four years.  Garbage that is now GONE thanks to a bit of careful sifting.

I ended up going to be at 10 pm New Year’s Eve.  Nice sleep.  Hung out and opened presents with the kids Christmas morning, but other than that, the days feel like regular days – which is rare, and wonderful!