Coffee in hand.

I just took a nap! Whooooooooooooo!

Face it. Napping when your kid does is parental heaven.

The tree got up.

It looks great. [A few years ago, a gay-male-pal accused DaSauce of having a Gay Man�s Tree. The thought still makes me laugh. He noted that nothing else (but my cooking) in my world was done with such perfection and that my hetero-slob-self obviously must be taking a holiday on those two items.] Look. Blue C7 lights, Balsam or Blue Spruce tree, silver/mirror/glass and white ornaments, done sparingly/tastefully is a fambly tradition. It makes an amazing tree.

But, my Gay-Man�s Tree is up and looks as close to perfection as it normally does while the rest of the household is tolerable.

The pies got made. Lip-Licking Lard! Mmmmmm.

This may be the last year I can get away with blasting Mojo Nixon and the ToadLiquors� Horny Holidays album with the �normal� Xmas music line-up. The five year-old boy is getting quicker, I�ll give him that. �Dad? Why does he want to get in her pants to do a little dance?� A quick subject change later�and we were back in working order.

There was even some time for schlubbing about with a vacuum cleaner�and after building my kidlet some lunch I went to Our Lady Of The Blessed Nap and kneeled at her shrine for a coupla hours.

Now. Coffee�

In a moment I sneak out to the garage for an American Spirit. Gotta quit the frigging smogs. I am my kid�s only parent.

After his tub and dinner, I promised that we�d play a videogame (this kid�s Boob-Tube usage is managed by scrooge-the-parent, and he gets an hour or two of games a weekend�content chosen by moi; a half hour or two of Bill Nye maximum off the TiVo during the week, shhh don�t report me to Waldorf; and a quality kid-friendly film now and again on weekends or a nice edu-travel program off HDNet.)

Then I get to check out the prequel to Amber written by someone other than Zelazny (as he has been room temp for more than a while.)

My neighbors invited me to go on a local party crawl. It sounded fun. Had I a safe and dependable sitter�I mighta joined the march. I don�t drink much anymore�two or three adult beverages a month� so I probably would have ended up sideways quickly.

Maybe next year.

--DaSauceInSearchOfHisSmog