I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I hope you can spend the day with family, friends, and loved ones — and that Santa brings you plenty of good books to read in the new year. 😉

May your day be merry and bright!

I can’t believe it’s just a week until Christmas now. Where did the month go? Heck, where did the year go? It’s a mystery to me. LOL.

Anyway, I know folks will be super busy with holiday stuff, and I’ve got several family things coming up, so I’m going to slack off on blogging for the next week. I plan to resume my usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday blog schedule on Dec. 27.

Until then, here’s some Friday fun: the trailer for the Thor movie that’s coming out in May. Maybe I’m a little bias because my new Mythos Academy YA series is about Greek, Norse, and other gods, but I think the movie looks pretty cool. Gods and superheroes in one movie — stuff is sure to blow up. 😉

So stay warm, stay safe, and brave the malls to get those last-minute gifts … if you dare. 😉

Wheezely sent me an interesting link the other day: Why Did You Buy Me That. It’s a website devoted to the worst gifts ever.

Why did he send me this? Well, one year for Christmas, my stepmother bought me an olive tray. Seriously, an olive tray. I didn’t even know they made such things. For those of you who don’t know, an olive tray is a long, skinny dish that you put olives in to serve them. The only problem is that the dish is so long and skinny that nothing else will fit in it, except for Hershey Kisses lined up one by one. There was also a jar of black, nasty-looking olives to go along with the tray.

Needless to say, I don’t like olives, and this was one of the worst gifts I’ve ever gotten. It’s right up there with a men’s manicure set that another relative bought me one year when I was a kid. Yep, a men’s manicure set. I don’t know what that person was thinking, especially since I was like ten or twelve at the time. And, you know, not a man.

So anytime anyone complains about terrible gifts, I just look at them and say olive tray. So far, none of my friends have been able to top that. I don’t know whether that’s good or bad. LOL.

What about you guys? What’s the worst gift you’ve ever gotten? Share in the comments.