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12-26-2006, 09:38 AM
Hope everyone had great day yesterday!
Overall we had a great time but I really can relate to Chevy Chase after the pre-dinner disasters. We hosted Christmas this year for the first time since we have a 17 month old daughter and didn't want to separate her from her toys. We were baking a spiral ham and attempting to deep fry a turkey outside. I had all the deep fryer gear lined up neatly and the oil measured perfectly all set to go. I was snugging the plastic fitting onto the propane take when it snapped in 2 pieces, rendering it useless! While frantically trying to scavenge parts from our grill to get the gas line to hook up our kitchen sink/garbage disposal unit clogged, leaving potato peels and acorn squash guts floating in a 4 inch puddle of greasy water. The dishes were piling up so high they had to be stored in the bathroom tub throughout dinner. So now we have a borrowed turkey fryer that's unusable, a turkey in our tub next to a pile of dishes and pans, a brand new sweater ruined by Drano splashing up on it while plunging the sink. Things were going great!
We had dinner, forgot about the huge mess, forgot about the broken fryer, had some laughs, exchanged gifts and realized we had accidentally thrown away my brother's gift card. Needless to say, I spend an hour digging through nasty trashbags to find it. Well, I finally found it and stepped right in the dogs water dish as I was running in the house. To top the whole night off, my wife was trying to wash all the dishes in the bathroom tub...yep, that got clogged too.
My wife and I went to bed at 8PM realizing that if we attempted to do anything else, it would most likely turn into a disaster. Funny thing was that we watched Lampoons Christmas Vacation ( a holiday favorite of mine) on Friday night. And to paraphrase a couple of my favorite lines from that movie, "Worse? How can it possibly get any worse? Take a look around you Ellen, We're at the threshhold of hell!......We're gonna have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny F***ing Kay! And when Santa squeezes his fat, wide a$$ down the chimeny, he's gonna see the jolliest bunch of a-holes this side of the nut house!"
Anyone else have any holiday nightmare stories?
Overall we had a great time but I really can relate to Chevy Chase after the pre-dinner disasters. We hosted Christmas this year for the first time since we have a 17 month old daughter and didn't want to separate her from her toys. We were baking a spiral ham and attempting to deep fry a turkey outside. I had all the deep fryer gear lined up neatly and the oil measured perfectly all set to go. I was snugging the plastic fitting onto the propane take when it snapped in 2 pieces, rendering it useless! While frantically trying to scavenge parts from our grill to get the gas line to hook up our kitchen sink/garbage disposal unit clogged, leaving potato peels and acorn squash guts floating in a 4 inch puddle of greasy water. The dishes were piling up so high they had to be stored in the bathroom tub throughout dinner. So now we have a borrowed turkey fryer that's unusable, a turkey in our tub next to a pile of dishes and pans, a brand new sweater ruined by Drano splashing up on it while plunging the sink. Things were going great!
We had dinner, forgot about the huge mess, forgot about the broken fryer, had some laughs, exchanged gifts and realized we had accidentally thrown away my brother's gift card. Needless to say, I spend an hour digging through nasty trashbags to find it. Well, I finally found it and stepped right in the dogs water dish as I was running in the house. To top the whole night off, my wife was trying to wash all the dishes in the bathroom tub...yep, that got clogged too.
My wife and I went to bed at 8PM realizing that if we attempted to do anything else, it would most likely turn into a disaster. Funny thing was that we watched Lampoons Christmas Vacation ( a holiday favorite of mine) on Friday night. And to paraphrase a couple of my favorite lines from that movie, "Worse? How can it possibly get any worse? Take a look around you Ellen, We're at the threshhold of hell!......We're gonna have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny F***ing Kay! And when Santa squeezes his fat, wide a$$ down the chimeny, he's gonna see the jolliest bunch of a-holes this side of the nut house!"
Anyone else have any holiday nightmare stories?