Christmas is coming!

More than a month after my return from Manila, where Christmas was already in full swing, some little sprouts of decoration are appearing in our neighborhood.

The carols are on in the mall, and today there’s a Christmas parade in the next town over… it’s the season, in a laid-back kind of way.

My Christmas present will hopefully be a fully functional set of cranial nerves. I can now sort of lopsidedly smile, so if I do happen to run into Santa I won’t scare him away.