I'm back

I have been negligent in the extreme, and it's all because of the season. Christmas is over and I now have to clean up. This is an alarming prospect.
You know, setting up the tree requires rearranging the entire living room until all the furniture is displaced. Now we have to work in reverse.
I have to un-decorate, disassemble the tree, and re-do all of the furnitre.
And all of the knick-knacks. Knick knacks all have to have a Christmas theme in the month of December, too.
We have this Nativity set that we keep under the tree in the living room. It's to remind us that Jesus is the Very Best Gift of All. The Shepherd has had a rough time of it this year. He was decapitated shortly after Thanksgiving. We were able to balance his head upon the remainder of his ceramic-self pretty well, though. You could hardly tell there was a problem. Then he met with further misfortune. He was rent asunder at the waist like Darth Maul. We could balance his torso on the legs, but the head wouldn't stay on after that. I am afraid the manger scene became a little macabre what with the shepherd's head lolling about underfoot. Some Elmer's glue seems to have done the trick, and he'll be ready to go for next year.
And music. Nobody blares AC/DC at Christmas time. There's a law or something that makes us listen to "Grandma got runover by a Reindeer" between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve.
All that is unique to the season. If you think about it, Christmas time is like an alternate reality.
Blogging is like an alternate reality, too. One I am happy to be back to. Welcome back, friends.