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December 24, 2004
Oh yes, I did.
It's Christmas Eve. Obviously, people, Santa is on his way. But where is he? How's Rudolph doing? Has the weather been a hinderance? I knew it was only 9 am, but it was Christmas somewhere in the world.
I just had to find out. Seriously.
I went to NoradSanta.org. Do you know what NORAD is? From them, and I quote, "NORAD is the bi-national American and Canadian military organization responsible for the aerospace defense of the United States and Canada." On their website you can get a map of where Santa is, or you can call. I had to call.
Yes, I called NORAD. I thought I would get a recording.
Ummm, it's ringing. Why is it taking so long? Why did the message just say someone will be with me shortly? Someone? You mean I have to talk to someone?
Before I could hang up, a woman answered the phone by saying, "Norad, can I help you?"
Can you help me? Ummm... I was wondering, do we need to worry about some kind of nuclear attack on Christmas?
No....I asked, "I was wondering where Santa was?"
"Well, Santa is currently over ->some peninsula in Russia that I don't remember and could probably never pronounce<-."
"Ah, okay."
"Do you have a boy or a girl?"
*pause... oh God, is she going to think I'm crazy for calling when my son is only one and really has no idea who Santa is?*
"Um, a boy."
*please don't make me lie and tell you my son is six or something like that*
"Where are you from?"
"Chicago."
"Well, tell him that Santa should be there at midnight tonight."
Maybe I should introduce Santa to Gus before I go talking about how some guy in a red suit with a huge beard is going to show up at our house in, oh, twenty minutes.
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We've been spending a lot of time at home these past two days, and it's been fantastic. The artic cold is responsible for this, but we don't mind. We took Gus out for about an hour today, just to pick up some brown sugar, gifts for the dogs (we're suckers, sue us) and a coffee/tea treat. Between stores, we covered the already-snowsuit-bundled Gus with a blanket. After we left Whole Foods, we could hear Gus chomping on the cracker we 'sampled' from the cheese section, we just couldn't see him.
Tomorrow we'll have our own little celebration here and then make our way to Granny Janice's home, where we'll have our biggest Christmas yet with Auntie Ali and Uncle Emilio, Great Grammy Shirley, John's uncle Bob and aunt Gail and cousins. Full house.
Merry Christmas to all!
Posted by janna at December 24, 2004 11:44 PM