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

.... or so i've been told.... there are packages to wrap and cookies to bake and cards to fill out and address - there are people to call and people to see and people to maybe catch a cold from - there are carols to sing and church pews to fill and wonder to feel....

 and just the day after tomorrow,

yes tomorrow, we will have survived all of the above with verve and can look forward to out with the old and in with the new... in just a week from the most wonderful time of the year...

if it's so wonderful.... um... why is it at the very end of the year?