I need a vacation...

Every year at this time, I’m exhausted. It’s usually the busiest time for me work-wise, and there’s all the preparation for Christmas involved too. I went shopping with John and David today, and it was awful. Too many people and too much choice. But the worst thing was getting lost at Square One.
The mall is so large, we just couldn’t figure out how to exit to where we’d parked the car. It was a nightmare. Not for the boys, but for me because my actual nightmares usually take place in a shopping mall. I have no idea why they do. It’s not a childhood thing…I was never a mall rat because there weren’t any to hang around it then, but I was actually panicking about not being able to get out.
Enough about that. I’ve been working on this year’s Christmas card, and last night the power when out while I playing with it in Photoshop. This is the third year in a row it’s happened—no exaggeration. Now I think I’ve figured out what the problem is. It’s my neighbor around the corner.
Each December he adds something new to his Christmas light display, and I’m sure it’s gobbling up every spare kilowatt of electricity in the immediate area—and then some.
But you have to admire the guy’s creative drive, especially in our cold climate. Although I’ve never met him, I send him my card anyway (here’s last year’s) because his display saves me work—all I need to do is put out my reindeer with the twinkle lights and moving head. Anyone coming to our house is so dazzled by my neighbor’s display they never even notice ours. I’d love to know how his immediate neighbors feel about his Disneyland approach to Christmas, but I’m afraid to ask!