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Merry Christmas! 
I made a short “uptempo holiday” playlist for myself and have been listening to it all morning:
- Another Rock And Roll Christmas | Gary Glitter
- Back Door Santa | Clarence Carter
- Carol Of The Bells | Rockapella
- Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 1224) | Savatage
- Christmas In Hollis | Run DMC
- Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You | Billy Squier
- Christmas Medley | Barenaked Ladies & Sarah MacLaughlin
- Christmas Wrapping | The Waitresses
- Dominick The Donkey | Lou Monte
- Father Christmas | The Kinks
- Feliz Navidad | Jose Feliciano
- Frosty The Snowman | The Jackson 5
- I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day | Wizzard
- Little Saint Nick | The Beach Boys
- The Man With All The Toys | The Beach Boys
- Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree | Brenda Lee
- Snoopy’s Christmas | The Royal Guardsmen
- Step Into Christmas | Elton John
- This Christmas | Donny Hathaway
- What Christmas Means To Me | Stevie Wonder
- Wonderful Christmas Time | Paul McCartney
My new ornament storage containers arrived at around 2pm yesterday, and I started undecorating shortly thereafter. I took my time, including a long break, but got everything organized and packed up and put away in time to watch Die Hard last night. 
I even did the shelves/books/LEGOs rearranging that I’d had in mind since last month. Everything isn’t completely back in place in the third bedroom yet, though, because I’ll need access to one of the big Rubbermaid containers in order to put the wreath hanger away whenever I take the front door wreath down (likely tomorrow).
At around noon I’ll get in the car and head north to meet my dad and brother for lunch. Christmas Day traffic is usually on the light side, even on I-495 (
). After we eat we’ll go to Dad’s place for a little while, but I’ll want to be back home by dinnertime in order to feed the doggy and do some final slothing. I have four work deadlines and two personal training sessions between now and Thursday night, so it’ll be a busy three-day week…and I owe my trainer a session, so I’ll schedule that for Friday or Saturday (depending on when I can get together with my BFFs).
Heck, I’m neither young nor a mother but I totally know that you have to use the one you were gifted so it can be seen!
Yeah, IMDb trivia says the stunt coordinator dropped him on “2” instead of “3” to get a better reaction out of him. 
Perfect! 
D’awwww…
Ugh, sorry about the disrupted plans/grandkids time! Hoping you (and the cat) can find some peace today. 