hello blogreaders.

i am checking in from the beautiful springfield, VA at my parents house.

boredom has already struck, as i’m now hiding upstairs in the office while my dad BLASTS the garth brooks christmas album.  god help me.

i spent the morning putting stickers on records.  when i placed my already-too-expensive vinyl order, i decided they were charging me too much to print and place stickers on all the records.  so i vowed to do it myself.  it’s actually surprisingly therapeutic to sit mindlessly and put stickers on stacks of records.  i’m about to go meet up with ben to give him his copies.  i can’t wait to share these with everybody and i’m stoked that he’ll have them to share at christmas.

so today i’ll hang with ben, have christmas dinner with the folks, and then off to the late night christmas eve service.  like an idiot, i forgot any nice church clothes, so i’ll be the scrubby bearded dude sitting there awkwardly in the pew in my jeans and cowboy shirt.  people will say “it’s so nice that the williams family brought a homeless guy to our church!”

on top of all this fun, i am definitely getting a cold.  the symptoms hit yesterday and were full-blown this morning.  i just can’t catch a freakin’ break!  hopefully i’ll be all better by monday when i have to return to work.  i don’t think i’m allowed to take any sick days.  i’m the only person in my department!

okay, back to garth brooks.  hope you all are with family and listening to better records than i am.