And everything in between ...

The downside to my really great Christmas vacation: It ended. Thirty hours ago, to be exact. And frankly, I am not at all excited to be back in the land of stress. I really miss this:

And this:

And this:

And this:

And this:

And everything in between ... which, for the record, included a New Year's Eve dinner so close to Mitt Romney that I could hear his conversation and watch him eat/drink his rootbeer freeze. I am taking that as a good luck omen for 2009. I might need it ...