now THESE are Christmas cards

About a week ago Daniel and I had plans to take one of the dogs to the mall.  The morning of he texted me and said, "Wear a green shirt, we're going to take a picture with Santa".

Today we finally got to take the second one.

Haha, those pictures make me happy.

secret santa

The secret is that he's angry.

I am EXTREMELY excited for secret santa at work, especially since I finally got my gift for my person.  Now that the pressure is off I can relax until it's time to give my gift, but I'm pretty certain it will be well received.  Just like I'm pretty certain the gift I'm going to get is going to be amazing.

I just have a feeling.

Just like I had a feeling I could get a better picture of him with my secret santa gift, but I was definitely off base with that feeling.

First I was trying to do it cold, but I knew he wouldn't show up in the darkness.  And as usual, the flash just made him in to evil santa clause:

I decided I would be able to get a great shot, I just needed to do some preparation.  Step one was feeding the detective, to hopefully help produce a less cantankerous santa clause.  While he was stuffing his gut I moved on to step two; lighting.

And yet, I really didn't end up with anything worthy of a Christmas card.  I got several nearly identical shots of dead behind the eyes santa:

it didn't get long for him to tire of the light, or the present.  I tried in vain to maintain his attention, but when I crossed the line to actually touching him is when he just straight up started biting me and kicking me.

The final pictures were of him glaring at me from behind the present, moments before he ran away altogether:

haha he says, "MERRY CHRISTMAS.  I'M ANGRY!"

this is fun

Last weekend they were supposed to be fixing the dings and scratches on my car but thanks to torrential rains they weren't able to.  I picked up my car on monday with a we owe for the things they couldn't do.

Which brings us to today, when they will be doing those things, and I will be driving this loaner.  It reminds me of this last summer.  Except in a lot of ways the 3 series was an upgrade from the roadster while this benz is a definite downgrade from mine.  I'm actually enjoying it because it's making me love my car even more.

The weirdest thing is that the interior is almost exactly the same as mine except smaller.  I feel like the roof is so close to my head, it makes me uncomfortable.  I like the color though!  It makes me feel like this:




Except for the fact that I am definitely not rolling in an SLS.  It's still cool though, and I will say the handling is better than on my glk.  But I love how comfortable my suv is, and when I want handling I can always take out the roadster.  If I ever get it back from Elliot, though to be honest I've been enjoying that he's been joyriding in it.  It's how that car was meant to be enjoyed, not commuting to the mall.  That's what ostentatious suvs are for!

Yes Andrew, I know, I'm that guy.  Shut up.

santa?

When I went to the laundry room this morning I found what I can only assume is santa's gifts to me.

How does he always know exactly what you want?!