"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:52:22 GMT, "Bill McKee"
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:56:23 -0500, " JimH" wrote:


"Don White" wrote in message
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JimH wrote:
..........all the guys must be out finally getting that Christmas
gift
for their wives.

You guys give the rest of us a bad name!

Anyway, the turkey is stuffed and has been cooking for about an hour.
Guests arrive after 1.

Merry Christmas folks.

Merry christmas to you and everyone in the newsgroup.
Happy holidays to anyone celebrating other than Christmas.

Cooking that turkey already? We do it Christmas Day.
My assigned duties today include cleaning the upstairs bathroom top to
bottom.

Turkey, stuffing and all the fixings today. Tomorrow we go to 8 a.m.
mass,
then open gifts while sipping on our favorite adult beverage, then pork,
sauerkraut and dumplings for dinner. We will have the same on News
Years
Day.

Wife, daughters and DIL decided on roast beef for tomorrow. Not just
any roast beef - A FREAKIN' STEAMSHIP ROUND OF PRIME RIB!!!

It's slow roasting as we speak.

You have any idea how much that damn thing cost me?

Tonight, the traditional Christmas Eve meal of American Slop Chewy,
salad, garlic bread and banana cream pie. Then all the Military types
get out the dress uniforms, the kids get cleaned up and it's off to
8:00 mass (kids mass). I'm sitting this one out because my RA is
flaring and I'm really not in the mood.

It's the stress of having all these freakin' people in my house. :)


I go to Safeway since they have Prime Rib on sale at $5 / pound for club
members and ask for a roast for 11 people. He cuts and wraps me a 10#
prime
rib. He must think they are gluttons. Will be nice left over's. And off
to deliver goodie trays later, and pick up the Tamales for dinner.
Youngest
is off to look at the set up for a Bat'h Mitzvah ( or however the females
is
spelt). For her August wedding reception. Oldest is off to an engagement
party. Just the parents and the kids dog.

I've just been informed that we are adding two Sailors and two Marines
from the Navy Base for tomorrow's dinner. Wife has already left for a
quick foray into Target/Walmart/Sears to pick up some small presents.

~~ sigh ~~

If never rains, it pours. :)

We always had Betty, my mom's older friend for years, but she has since
passed. We may have my daughters friends, He is Hindu, and she Christian.
We had them last year, but they may be going to another Hindu affair. I
come from a family, where we always had an open seat. Only way to get on
Mom's bad side was not to stay and eat.