Seasons Greeting From The Rock

Yes, I should be poolside getting that tan that the ducklings informed me I should get to make everyone totally "jeal". But since it looks like the clouds cannot decide what they want to do, I am hanging in the condo happily reading something than GRE prep guides or academic journals and scouring the web to plan the next couple of weeks.

Musings: 

• Surviving Christmas Forever this year seemed harder than it should have. It was a combination of boredom, too many antsy pantsy children stuck in folding chairs in the lobby, and wistfulness/panic of the thought of giving up the holy grail of counseling jobs. Realization: I might be certifiable.
• Since we are on the rock for this holiday season, we had to cram several Christmas celebrations in early.Thus we spent American Turkey Day in Canada, headed to the 'Ham towards the snow (where Christmas was cancelled by TPS) giving up a much needed weekend, overfed S&TT both with food and emotion which was about a good idea as feeding Gremlins after midnight in a hot tub (this was not apparent until the next horrible no good day), and attended way to many fetes in two weeks than one ever should. Realizations: whoever said if you aren't from MOB town you should never turn down a social invite was clearly unpopular and the time has certainly come for us to move far far far away from all FoO again. 
• I need to become more financially solvent so DH can stop having to work for idiots and either open his own company or look more carefully at law school. At least he is bent on doing the patent bar thing. Realization (continuing): Having a true life partner is the most valuable gift in the universe.
• I am overwhelmed by the amount of women around me with this crazed look in their eyes regarding procreation. It is really rather frightening. I am not so much opposed to child bearing for the yearning to have and actively raise a child, but more so by those that are making the choice because everyone else is doing so or they think it is this season's hottest accessory (which is really how many of them are treating it). Realization (I wish others would come to): Children are a lifetime commitment, and I do realize I do not have any from my loins; but of the 750+ I deal with every darn day, I deal with an awful lot of the effects of bad parenting.
• Apparently if you rant with some pithy commentary regarding the state of the working world today you to can get a perfect score on the analytical writing section of the GRE. Realizations: Maybe I should think about a more English based PhD and STX doesn't offer a GRE site and I am not courageous enough to go take it in Puerto Rico.