It's the most wonderful time of the year...

...there'll be much mistletoeing and ...cleaning =( YUCK! Yep, the house has to be cleaned. We will have a Christmas Eve brunch plus the girls will be home so my two days without the girls this week were spent cleaning. I don't like doing it; I do all I can to avoid it; I am close to tears when I think about doing it; there's a million other things I'd rather do. So on Tuesday, before I started to deep clean the hardwood floors and mop the kitchen and bathrooms I decided to put in the movie Elf instead of turn on the iPod. It took me the entire movie to get it all done (I can usually do it in under an hour- it becomes a race to see how fast I can finish most of the time!) but I stopped and laughed a lot. Now that is a first. So today I had to clean the bathrooms, so in went Christmas Vacation. I couldn't watch as much since I don't have a TV in the bathroom but I did turn the TV way up so I could hear it and boy did I laugh. A good friend of mine (we've known each other a few years but just became close this past year), I am learning has the entire Christmas Vacation movie memorized. In emails or texts, she'll give me random quotes and now that the movie is fresh in my mind, so many of her emails are making a lot more sense now! So here's what I say to cleaning bathrooms and mopping floors, spoken best by Clark Griswold: "Merry Christmas, kiss my ass, kiss his ass, kiss your ass, and Happy Hanukkah!" Oh & Santa, if you're reading this- all I want for Christmas is a cleaning service and the money to pay for it.... not much ;)