I had a nice quiet Christmas with the fam....nice and short. LOL sometimes I can only deal with them for so long. I hadn't seen my sister since last Feb when I went to Phoenix, so it was good to see her again. I had seen her hubby more than her, especially since he drove me from Seattle to NOLA. Next year, if all goes well, we will have Christmas in AZ...that is if mom and dad's house sells. Hopefully it will. Dad is ready to retire from IBM, he already has his 30 years in there. We watched lots and lots of football. It started Thursday night with the Las Vegas bowl. Wyoming and....um....oh crap I can't remember who the other team was, I only know it was Wyoming because my Uncle Lance is a defensive coach for them. That and most of the coaching staff used to be at the University of Montana. When Joe Glenn left a few years ago, he took them all with him. So they won that bowl game and it was fun. Lance and Shoni were suppose to come down to my parents house on Sunday so we could see them and my cousins, but they were really tired.

I was really worried about Donna all Christmas....I know it was going to be a hard time since the 25th marked 4 months since Marvin passed. I still can't believe its been 4 months.....Donna has/is one of the strongest people I know. She has had to deal with so much in the past few months, I hope and pray that in the next year things get much better for her, and a little easier. It makes everything I have gone through/am going through, well it puts it in perspective. I am very honored to have Donna in my life.

What a freakin EXCELLENT weekend I had. First and foremost the sad news....my Montana Grizzlies did not win the championship game. They lost 31-21. That was sad. But what helped that night was the free beer at the Bonerama show (thanks Craiggy and Paul). I had gotten an email from Mark Friday morning asking if I wanted to run the merch table for them that night. He bribed me with BTE tickets. ;) I had the best time doing that, got to talk to lots of people, made the guys some money, and got to hear them play....i couldn't really see much, but thats cool. Paul did watch the table once during the 2nd set so I could go up front. I got some pics then. Mark asked me later if I was trying to make this a permanant gig....I said I had fun doing it, and wouldn't mind doing it again. I sold out of all the Live in NY CDs and had one Live at Old Point left. He was pretty darn happy. We fought over him paying me...he gave me 10% of what was sold. Obviously he won the fight. lol Craig had me in a dark corner at Maple Leaf....to see his glow in the dark rugulator. There is no way to type that without it sounding wrong......but it was cool. All the guys were extremly sweet, and they sounded awesome!! Saturday Adam, Carrie and I went out for Christmas shopping. I was able to find one thing....I have to get the rest done ASAP. We did make it to LMF for the Bonerama instore, had a great time, love the fact that I got to hear them live again less than 24 hours apart. After the show, I had to wait for Mark to find out about the BTE tixs. He wasn't sure what was going on, but knew he could get Carrie and I in. He asked for my #....and at one point he asked if I was afraid that he would start stalking me. Little did I know. ;) I heard from him SEVERAL times in between LMF and the BTE gig. LOL he ended up meeting us outside the stage door where he took us in that way....gave us backstage passes and Carrie and I hung out in Howie Days dressing room all night consuming lots of free beer. Mark said at one point that he was glad he was wearing pants under the red robe. LOL Since most of what we could see of him from our vantage point was his back, and the robes are open in the back. After that was over...Carrie and I took off because we had to find Adam, and then run to Donna's. Well Adam was at little TI having a drink or two. we hung out there for a bit, and then went to Donna's. We got to Donna's in time to hear the last song from Leroy and Craig. They thought that was amusing. I talked to them a bit, Bert (of Bonerama showed up) and we all hung out for awhile. I :heart: Katja....Leroy's fiancee. She is the sweetest thing.