I just got home from Christmas.

JUST TODAY. JUST TWO HOURS AGO.

The week before Christmas my van decided to have a major electrical problem that took one week and fourteen-hundred dollars to fix. The day before my birthday, the day my niece was getting married, the day I was leaving for home, it decided to have that problem again. Thankfully I only had to sit at Firestone (with all four kids and Ed) until the wedding was over and the reception started. So, you know, basically all day. Because before that every single family member was busy getting their hair done or doing photographs or whatever. And the church, for some reason, could not find the grandmother of the bride and it never occured to them that the bride, the parents of the bride, the matron of honor (the bride's sister), the bridesmaid (her other sister) or the junior bridesmaid (her niece) might know who and where she was.

The best part is that the part and the labor was done on Tuesday--but because they kept unhooking the computer and the battery, the SRS anti-theft device kicked on and it had to be towed to a the nearest Dodge dealer so that a satellite uplink could reset the chip in the key, the key fob, and the ignition.

I didn't have my laptop with me, of course.

The upside is that the repair didn't cost me a dime because I'd had the car back for less than a week. The downside? I'm looking to back date a lot of fic for the 12 Days (I aim to post two a day until I'm caught up starting tomorrow, and then backdate it after a week or so). Here, have some day two Gravitation. I have to pass out.

( The second day of Christmas! )

ETA: Here, have some cuts from the FIRST day of Christmas!

( Stuff from the Arashi fic that I cut because it didn't fit and then gave titles because I thought it was funny. )