AUBREEVISION - Observations from the far side of the dial

And so Christmas weekend continues. I am so full of chocolate and turkey that I may very well burst. My Buddha belly is growing to impressive proportions...damn you ineffectual Pilates!

Very cold today in the Maritimes, at least in this slice of it; blizzard warnings for tomorrow. A good excuse to stay inside and watch the B&B -- I've missed three whole epsiodes! Now I'll never know what's up with Bridget's broken engagement, or whether Deacon will do right by Jackie. Eric likes to comment sarcastically that the storylines are so innovative and unpredictable that surely I'll never be able to fill in the blanks. But what if all the plot threads suddenly resolved themselves, and I missed the culmination of a 16-year soapstravaganza? It could happen.

Had a nice Christmas with the family. My mother has a funny habit of placing huge orders with Sears and returning 95% of what she buys. Last Christmas, for example, she asked if I wanted some pants she had seen in the catalogue. When I said no, she naturally ordered them in four colours. Each pair was individually wrapped and placed under the tree, deceptively suggesting that I had hit the Christmas gift jackpot. Instead, I opened four pairs of pants I didn't want, reaffirmed I didn't want them and had Mom ship them back to Sears, where they should have stayed in the first place.

She done good this year, paring it down to only one extraneous pair. Ahhh, mothers.....