Escape Artist

 If you're wondering why Granny Ray has not had anything to say since December 5, it's because I hate the bruhaha of holidays (and Christmas in Microworld has more bruhaha than you can shake a stick at).  So in the interest of self-preservation, I escaped. I sent checks to all the kids and grandchildren, drove away in a blinding snowstorm, boarded a cruiseship, and sailed of to the Caribbean for two weeks.  You can call me Scoorge, a coward, a self-centered shallow person, etc., etc., but I know that you are as green as the Grinch with envy.  Who hasn't wanted to just get away from all the shopping, wrapping, decorating, cooking, school plays, church programs, obligatory office parties, and charity events?  What was it like you wonder.....while you were circling the mall parking lot for the third time hopelessly trying to find a parking spot before the stores closed, I was sitting in a hot tub on the ship's pool deck sipping a bloody Mary.  This should definitely be a new holiday tradition.  Now that I'm back home, it's snowing again....well, you can't have everything.  I'm shopping on-line for more vacations.  Escape is just a click away.  PS: Don't expect postcards...it's just too hard to hold a pen and a drink in the same hand.