I Really Do Like Christmas but ...

... I'm tired; there's just too much to do and not enough waking hours in the day.  The in-laws arrive tomorrow and I'm stuck at work recovering from a stinking cold that sapped my energy levels.  I've still got some presents to buy and mucho grocery shopping to do.  My wife won't be happy until the fountain in our back yard is running again (her parents haven't seen the new back yard and she wants it to be perfect for their visit) and let's not mention the stuff I'm supposed to have completed at work and for the home owner's association.

Every year I have good intentions of going into the holiday season prepared and organized and every year I stagger out the other side dazed and confused with the feeling that I some how just got away with something and survived another one. 

With all this chaos and expenditure of energy comes a lack of creativity; I haven't taken much more than a snap or two in a week.  It's not that I haven't picked up a camera, just that I've picked it up and put it down in frustration and disgust a few minutes later.  Still, I know Santa has a new camera in his bag for me - the new Rebel 400 Xti to replace my current main camera, the original digital rebel. Also, we don't have much planned between Christmas and New Year and I'm taking the whole week off so hopefully there'll be time for a few photo safaris in between watching movies and other commitments.  Roll on Tuesday!