maybe if i close my eyes and think real hard...

...i can actually pretend that christmas is in 16 days. maybe it's the fact that my head has been swimming the past two months trying to get accustomed to a new way of life away from everybody, or it's the bright sunny days and the beach and the palm trees that scream summer, but i'm finding it harder than usual to get in the so-called christmas spirit this year. i've been getting pretty close i suppose...i actually wrote a huge long christmas card that ended up being too huge and long so i'm in the process of throwing it away and starting over (which will probably make it a Happy 2nd Tuesday in January card). i mailed a christmas present in november to my roommate last year -- he was always infatuated with the Olsen twins, and i sent him a Mary Kate doll i found in my company's store room.

maybe it's because it's just slowly become another day. just another day off school. just another day of sitting around the house with my parents. they've always liked having just the three of us together. for the past couple years i had thought how much more fun it would be to have a huge Griswold family xmas. or a McAllister family xmas. but if i were kevin, i'd have kicked uncle frank's ass. the bastard.
- posted by yeah...about that... @ 5:37 PM