happy christmas ... holidays

{photo from this flickr stream}

i'm breaking the chains between myself and my computer for the next couple of days in order to enjoy things like cooking with my husband and entertaining ourselves with the various insane light displays all over our neighborhood. (had i mentioned before that our neighbors blast christmas songs for about 4 hours every night? they have a light show coreagraphed to the music and everything. i won't be sad to see that go ...)