Events

We're under a little pressure, this week.

Last night, I abruptly realized that if we decorate the tree as planned this weekend, it'll have been up for less than a week before Christmas. Less than a week! How did the holiday season get so compressed? I know, Thansgiving is late this year, and all, but still: where did that time go?

I think my daughter has the worst of it. She says that shes gotten so much homework and projects to do, she ran out of space in her agenda book to note it all. She's convinced that her instructors are loading up for the holiday week. That would be the same holiday week as when she has all day -- 12 hours a day -- color guard practice for five straight days. They're bringing in an outside instructor, you see, which is expensive, so the local people are trying to get as much time with him as they can. Screw that these kids might have a life outside of color guard, let alone, educational stuff to do. This is about when I say how stupid activities like this are, and get overridden again. How many scholarships does color guard give out, again?

We did get one nice piece of news relative to our financial status, but overall - man. This is one hurried season.