Morning Sean. How was your Christmas? I read earlier about your gifts and how much your sister was enjoying the day. Hope it was super dooper fabulous and well worth waiting for. Christmas hugs to you my friend!
It was excellent, roonies, thanks for asking! I suspect I won't see my sister for a few days... she's got 4 long-coveted DVDs to watch.
And we now have a nightlight in the bathroom... odd choice of christmas present, perhaps, but mom was really thinking on that one, since as the sibling and I have gotten older, our depth perception has gotten *terrible* in the dark - truly can't tell which way is up. So ever since the move, I've had to flip the hall light on if I'm prowling around the house late at night, and I hate doing that because mom has to keep her bedroom door open for the cat (who also likes to prowl late at night and has a bad habit of letting the door close on her tail if she pushes it open herself)... so the nightlight in the bathroom now means I've got enough light to navigate when I'm up at ungodly hours, without potentially waking half the household. It's the little things in life, I tell you!
The best part was spoiling mom a bit... not nearly as much as I wanted to or as she deserves, but I did the best I could and it was good enough to get her to tear up, so that's a success. She's got new jewelry and nail stuff to show off at work, a new jewelry box to keep it all in (I noticed she'd outgrown her current cache of neat jewelry boxes - dad used to hand carve them for her), and a gift card to get herself some more shoes. (She's quite the bargain hunting Imelda Marcos, and discovered Nordstrom Rack a few years ago, which didn't help the shoe addiction!) I teased her it was also kind of a gift to her that *I* got some new shoes, because she's always annoyed with the poor shape mine are in and trying to
buy me new ones, which I usually fail to wear because I loathe trying to break new shoes in.
And then we gorged ourselves on the usual, turkey and all the family dishes to go with it. All in all, a brilliant holiday with the family, which is always the part I'm most grateful for.
Her Highness the Royal Siamese slept through the whole thing despite our best efforts to wake her, and stomped out to the living room about 4pm *most* displeased that she'd missed playing with the wrapping paper... so we had to snag a piece for her to roll around with for a while. (We gave up buying her cat toys about 15 years ago - she prefers paper, ribbon, boxes, etc!) I haven't seen her out here since, so I suspect she's stomping back and forth across mom's head while mom tries to sleep. (It's not really night time around here unless I can hear mom having at least one argument with the cat; who does argue back.)
I am loving the Rainbow Sherbert. I notice a slight tartness on the exhale. I'll bet a little Butterscotch would really smooth that out. I'm revisiting Shenanigans right now and it is so great. Not sure if they have it in flavor but if they do I'll be jumping right on it. Alrighty, once again I've been up all night so I'd best get to bed before the sun comes up. I hate to waste half of Sunday sleeping. (cursing the return of the sleep disorder this week end)
I don't mind the tartness of Rainbow Sherbet at all, but it was giving me a tiny tiny bit of a... sort of metallic bitterness? That reminded me of some liquid meds I used to take as a kid - more of a bad-memory-trigger than a bad taste. I bet you're right that Butterscotch would fix that, too. I'm very pleased that Sticky Bun worked, as I didn't really expect it to!
Shenanigans sounds like something I need to add to my ever-growing list of interesting flavors to try.
Sleep well... I don't know if it's the weather or what, but I've slept about 5 hours in the past 5 days, myself, and not for lack of trying. About to break down and take an ambien if the situation doesn't improve shortly!
Sorry, Sam. If you ever get out this way, we're happy to share. 
