Christmas Countdown Past - From 2005 - Finale

A Note About this Repost from the Madman Behind the Curtain - As I had said before this was the biggest mainstream online community blog I had ever done. This blog entry also suffers from another problem. Of all the entries I ever posted this is the only one that never survived my Exodus from Myspace to my own blog site. A lot of people didn't notice when I re-wrote it in a monster hurry in 2006, but a few did. I wasn't satisfired with the rewrite as I shouldn't have been. In this entry I try to rewrite it better, and for truth in advertising, you can see the original rewrite here. The other thing that needs to be pointed out is that one of my greatest inspirations for writing over the years was featured as the third ghost in this entry. Her name was Elonna Rochelle and unfortunately a few years back she was taken from this world and brought to a better one. I always make sure that anyone reading this entry understands how important to me and many other people online she was, and how horribly we all miss her. This is for you my twisted friend from Oklahoma, and now from heaven above .. Jeremy

Repost From The Christmas Countdown 2005 - The Jeremy Crow Christmas Carol - Part 3 {December 24, 2005}

Awoken once again Jeremy Scrooge heard nothing at all but felt a long lick across his face , and jumped up startled to see a ghost all dressed in leather and holding a riding crop. "I take it you must be the ghost of Christmas yet to come huh?" said a still very startled Jeremy Scrooge. He wasn't startled enough to NOT grab the riding crop out of the Ghosts hands.

"Oh bitch, you did not just do that?" the ghost said to him and then got a very evil grin on her face, "I kinda like a man that takes control though, are you going to spank me now, I've been so damn bad after all?" and she turned to show Jeremy Scrooge her ass, while wiggling it playfully.

"Oh boy, you're going to be a real hoot, I see. How's about you give me a name and then we can go about this evening, and then I can get Christmas over with ok?" Jeremy Scrooge said with his usual lack of humor, "That Lynn ghost that over-emphasizes everything already told me that you were coming" but to be more to the point that part of the nightmare was more along the lines of someone yelling every fourth word at him.

"Oh Geeze, you should hear her on the phone, she is pure death on your ears, um ... Oh yeah my name is Elonna, but you can call me mistress, so put on this leash and I will walk you through your ..." she stopped short and looked at the obviously cross looking Jeremy Scrooge, "Ok fine, I'll wear the leash, but how do you know how to get there?" again she looked at Jeremy Scrooge and grabbed his hand, "Tight Ass, not that that's a bad thing" and then she licked him on the face again before they disappeared.

The scene was very familiar as Jeremy Scrooge could see himself sitting over in the chair in the corner that Greektradgedius once sat in. His hair was as grey as hers once was, and he figured he would go without the question and answer about what happened to her, as he could tell by his own hair that more years than what she had had passed, and even felt himself a bit sad about it. There was a frantic knocking at the door, like someone on the other end was more trying to annoy than enter. Popping in the door was a little evil, that had somehow transformed into a college aged evil, and the clatter around the room made Jeremy Crow very aware that she was late, and this was normal. She still had the dimples and the chipmunkish voice, although a bit deeper, and somewhat easier to understand. A beautiful little thing to even rival the last two ghosts that had invaded the life of the current Jeremy Crow, she still had a flair for the dramatic, as she ran right over to the older Jeremy Scrooge, and gave him a hug and a peck on the cheek, "Sorry daddy, but you know how the traffic is this time of the year!"

Ane equally beautiful woman who could only be Big evil came out of the kitchen to greet her little sister, and give her a breif scolding for being just late enough to avoid helping with the cooking. Her apron was quite matronly and the current day Jeremy Crow was more than slightly amused as he had more than once pictured her to be a nesting influence in the years to come. This sort of confirmed it, but it was the most peculiar sight around her legs, that immediately grabbed his attention, as Jeremy Scrooge finally gazed upon the littlest evil of them all. She was cute as a button, and for the life of Jeremy Scrooge he couldn't even remember any of his evils's ever being this small at all. Even with the glowing examples of what his evils's had been like in Christmas' past this one still stood out as being so tiny and so cute, that it could only mean one thing and started welling up his eyes.

Shaking off the sentimentality as fast as he possibly could, Jeremy Scrooge finally belted out “Why did they all come to my house? I would have thought that I would have a life by now, and they would have all been gone, and where is Middle Evil?” the demanding tones in his voice made the Elonna Ghost chuckle, at his requests for information. "I figured they would be living with me until the end of time, and what about me? Don't I ever get to have a life after giving up my best years for all of this?"

“What do I look like an encyclopedia?” the Elonna ghost belted back at him. "You know, you're kinda hot when you are crabby, but you do need to let up a bit!" and after a few moments of looking at Jeremy Scrooge’s face scowling at her, she started in again with, “Look, this ain’t your house sugar, you gave it to Big Evil and her husband, when you and your wife got a little place of your own, a little ways away from here. Hell your wife went off to be with her family while you came here, and I’ll tell you, that talk she gave you about having 358 days a year together so missing each other for 7 being a snap was sweeter than … um … this … well .. um … that actually ties into that life part you talked about anyways. You didn’t think you were going to be alone forever did ya? Middle evil is in the Air Force and he is flying jets just like YOU always told him he could, and this year was his year on, but you saw him last month,” after looking around curiously, she added, “You actually thought you were gonna get out of coming here this year till that sweet lil Angel there called you up, crying because she didn’t know how to make breakfast and said ‘I’m too Yiddle bumpa’ .. oh man ya big softie you” she said right before she licked his face again.

By this time Jeremy Scrooge wasn’t actually listening to Elonna Ghost anymore, as he was simply staring at the Really Little Evil. She entertained everyone, and tried to steal everyone’s attention, who were talking to others. The whole time she was playing hostess to everyone, she was holding on to the pant leg of her grandfather, as if she was afraid he was going to leave. Even the current day Jeremy Scrooge knew that that probably wasn't going to happen too easily with this little elf clutching on to him. Little Evil then started handing out everyone’s presents as she has for the last 16 years or so, and when the other Jeremy Scrooge sits down Really Little evil takes up her place between his feet on the floor. The younger Jeremy Scrooge stands there fascinated by what is happening as the first gift gets to Really Little Evil, and she starts tearing off the wrappings. The tears already started pouring out of his eyes as he remembered the last two evil's unwrapping their gifts.

“A BOX A BOX …. LOOK BUMPA I GOT A BOX,” and she starts running around like a little lunatic waving her box in the air for everyone to see. It was after all the greatest box that anyone had ever gotten. She does the whole tour, showing her box to everyone that had gathered in the house, and when she is worn out from her little adventure running around she leaps into her grandfather’s lap, and gives him a hug after dropping the greatest box she had ever gotten.

“Well you see baby girl, the gift is inside of the box, and you need …” started the older Scrooge in a kind sounding voice, as the Younger Scrooge feels a hand on his shoulder, and he tries to pull away with tears in his eyes. The Elonna Ghost, although sympathetic knew that, as her supervisor Lynn had promised did her job quite well already. The current day Jeremy Scrooge found himself reaching out to grasp onto almost anything as the room slowly starts to fade away, and it gets dark.

When Jeremy Scrooge awakens at his desk he wiggles his mouse to see that it says that it is only 6 am December 25th on his computer, and there are dozens of Christmas cards from his friends waiting in his e-mail box on the desktop. The overwhelming fear that he had slept through Christmas was all around him, which was a far cry from the constant day dreaming that he WOULD {damn Lynn Ghost} sleep strait through Christmas. Somehow he managed to delete everything he was writing, while most likely rolling his head around on the keyboard. Sitting straighter up he see’s the very first card on the desktop and immediately like a little lightbulb had appeared over his head he grabs the phone. Dialing the phone he listens to it ring a few times …. “Merry Christmas Lori” he says into the phone “No I just wanted to see how everything went with your kids yesterday ….. Good good ….. no I am going to wake the kids up in a little bit …… well yeah I am amazed that they can sleep in on Christmas day too, but I think they are content is all …… well actually it’s all about the kids yanno, I learned that from my dad ……” ;8o)