I'm working 55 yo 60 hours a week right now, 6 days a week.
 
and my wife emails me and says, "daddy wants to know if we are interested in going to see Christmas lights at the Texas Motor Speedway with them?  It's $20/car"
 
Really?  drive 1/2 hour or more in traffic to get to the TMS, then drive around outside it thru a bunch of Christmas lights and pay $20 to do so, then drive back home for 1/2 hour or more - all after working a full day at work.
 
Sure!  I'd love to!  (NOT)
 
but I will.  because I love my wife and it gets me "husband" and "in-law" points. 

you remember, Bit, was offering bribes to people to take his place at a function...




just sayin...

Pay my airfare, room and bored and I'll be your surrogate Beag

musicman100


you remember, Bit, was offering bribes to people to take his place at a function...




just sayin...

I think that was actually Randy offering to pay for a surrogate to attend a wedding with his wife...
 
but point taken!

bapu


Pay my airfare, room and bored and I'll be your surrogate Beag

only problem is that I think my wife would notice the difference.  this is a "finding things for us to do to spend time together" sort of event.
 
besides - the moobs would be a different size.  she'd definitely notice...

I could pad mine

bapu


I could pad mine

[insert rimshot]

 Don't feel bad Beags, I am always doing those kinds of things. Somehow I always get talked into it. My wife has at least three events lined up for us. I go along because I know she enjoys it and sometimes I even enjoy it. Who knows maybe it will be fun...well maybe.

Starise


 Don't feel bad Beags, I am always doing those kinds of things. Somehow I always get talked into it. My wife has at least three events lined up for us. I go along because I know she enjoys it and sometimes I even enjoy it. Who knows maybe it will be fun...well maybe.

AH!  the eternal optimist! 
 
I can't really imagine it will be fun for me.  she will enjoy it but me?  meh.  I'd much rather spend my off time working on music instead of driving around for an hour or more (not counting to/from time) looking at "pretty lights" 

I love driving around looking at Christmas lights! I can't wait to go to Branson Mo. this year. The wife promised me I could! I was jumping up and down when she told me. Of course, I had to do it outside, ya know, being 300 + pounds I didn't want to end up in the basement. :-)

But I was excited!

I have 3 Christmas trees up already in my house and I haven't even brought up the boxes of lighted porcelain Christmas village yet. There's 11 of them. Totes full of them that is. I got barns, and houses, and windmills, and churches, Santa's Workshops, and little people huddling around campfires (that light up). Then I have a set of real Christmas bells. They have little padded hammers in them hooked to coils and a little midi unit. You plug in the Christmas cartridge and it plays Christmas music via the attached bells. It's a pain to set up so the bells aren't touching anything and they ring real loud, but it's worth the effort. Then I got the Christmas traveling circus train to set up. 8 cars, all with lights and animations. It plays music too, but I took it apart and wired in a switch so I can turn it off. It clashes with the bells.

Then we get to the interior lighting. I got 25 boxes of 100 light sets.

I may keep it simple on the exterior illumination this year. Got a lot of other stuff to do.

For the first time in a very long time I'm in a Christmassy mood this year and I'm gonna roll with it.