Well in my line of work I'm no stranger to working on important days, birthdays, 4th of July, Christmas, and Thanksgiving. Usually that isn't anything big to deal with, growing up my dad was also a cop and I was used to not having him around for things because of work also. This Christmas has been especially tough, my grandmother seems to be on the downhill slide which is tough for me to deal with. She has been through so much and purserviered through so much so often (medically) it seems as though she and her body have finally said "enough is enough". We've had to postpone Christmas this year until after the first of the year. This is the first Christmas away from Andrea and baby boy, she told me he ran to the back door of her moms house this morning when he heard the door open. I always come home from work early in the morning, and he was saying "dadda? dadda? dadda?" hoping it was me only to find her uncle. That doesn't make missing them any easier.

I spent my Christmas day sleeping at home, which wasn't the greatest of sleep, but was invited to a friends for dinner which was nice. I'm now at work hoping it will be a very quiet night (now that I've said that it won't be, holidays are the worst time for family fueds) so I can just screw off and accomplish nothing.

<3 Ares