Today is Christmas Eve for me. This year we are going to Catherine's parent's house on the 25th for Christmas so my family is celebrating Christmas tomorrow at our house tomorrow. 

Some things about this year's Christmas worked in my favour:

- I finished my Christmas shopping last Monday, this beats my old record by about 10 days.

- This year I wasn't allowed to wrap any presents because, to put it bluntly, I suck at wrapping presents. My technique usually involves a lot more wrapping paper than I really need and way too much hockey tape that holds everything together. I do think however, that my Chirstmas present wrapping technique makes Christmas last longer because getting into presents that are from me often involves a knife, a bottle of whiskey and some gumption.

This year because we are going to Vancouver I am going to be missing Christmas with my Dad's side of the family. This is both good and a bad.

The bad thing about missing Christmas on my Dad's side is that this year is my Grandma and Grandpa's 60th wedding anniversary and I am going to miss it. Catherine and I will have to make a special trip to visit them in January.

The good thing about missing Christmas on my Dad's side is that last year my Grandma decided to serve fruitcake that was from 1984 (I am not kidding), this prompted the best line of Christmas 2004 to come from my Grandpa "fruit cake is like a good scotch, the older it is the better it gets". I coudln't have said it better myself.