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KEPT

OK. OK. We will keep the tree up another day.

I remember that this was always a big issue when I was a kid. For years, the parents decorated the tree the night before Christmas. Other kids had their trees for a week before and then all the way through New Years' Day. I do not know when they made the switch; but once it was done it was forever. A proper tree goes up soon and stays long. This one is just two days though.

We had a good day. We got a lot of phone calls. We had fruit stollen that Randy brought; a holiday tradition. I had one piece and somehow it is all gone. They made off with it.

Later turkey...I roasted a breast a week or two ago and have been saving the results in the freezer;bread dressing--or stuffing if you prefer. The whole purpose of turkey is to justify the dressing; my patented cranberry sauce home made in the micro with fake sweetener.

John and Randy went to see COLD MOUNTAIN. I will abstain. I lived in Petersburg, VA when I was in the Army and I visited the Crater. That was enough. While Jude Law is very good looking, I have no desire to see him drag and suffer throughout for an eventual mating with Nicole Kidman. This is one of those films where I figure I know it all without seeing it. I am a bit snotty about this; but they do not like THE LORD OF THE RINGS; so there! Take that.