Christmas 2008 (Page 1 of 3)

I cannot be bothered with Christmas this year. I will like it when it arrives but it is the present aspect that I cannot get enthusiastic about. I do not want to buy anything for anyone and I do not want anything in return.

I have got some books and I am going to make some decorations with the younglings soon. I will get the decorations out in the next few days.

That is fantastic Draco

I have got my festive avatar on now I think I will have to sort through the decorations soon. Though I have to start making Christmas presents soon. In fact I will have to start tonight as I will have to post some of them. If I get them done now I can send them by slow and inexpensive post (after spending a lot on my step daughter I have to make the rest of our Christmas as inexpensive as possible)

I survived working Black Friday. This year Christmas will be a quiet affair at home with my father and possibly uncle.

Winter break starts in two more weeks for me. Just....two.....more.....

And the only thing standing between me and home sweet home is an army of final examinations and essay due dates. Damn.

I haven't really thought about christmas, sadly enough. Maybe it's because they keep us busy, but that's only part of it. Frankly I'm starting to think I've become a little disenchanted with it. I'd have to say the part I'm most looking forward to is the reunion of The Herd, the amazing and stunningly attractive band of heroes that are my friends. College scattered our little fellowship literally across the country, from California, to Florida, to frigid Vermont, and I haven't seen some of them since we parted ways this past summer. This reuniting will be nothing short of legendary.

Something I've noticed over the past few years, as far as presents and wish-lists are concerned: I don't really know what I want anymore. I'm not sure if this is a common trend as people graduate from begging for video games and expensive name-brand clothes, or if I became self-actualized or something overnight, but I've come up clueless every year when my mom says "All your aunts and uncles are asking me, what do you want for christmas?"

I just want to mail them a plain white envelope with an enclosed "IDK N00BZ0R!!!"

But really, it's kind of sad. I asked for a Mossberg now that I've thankfully reached the golden age of legal firearm ownership, but both of my parents are in the medical profession, and pretty much despise guns and anything to do with them. I tell anyone that asks that I'm the adopted child of Lara Croft and Sam Fisher.

But I mean really, what horrible luck. My philosophy major friend gets a shotgun thrown at him by his uncle as a gift for no real reason, and the Criminal Justice major at a military college gets the anti-gun family. 53R10U5LY, 17'5  R3411Y  64Y. 50 64Y I'V3 R350R73D 2 1337 5P34K.

Umm ya.....Merry Christmas!

((I would like to blame any randomness/1337-speak on the daunting prospect of aforementioned exams starting TOMORROW. Feliz Navidad.))

A Muppet Christmas Carol, it's a great adaptation and very entertaining. Rudolph, The Year Without A Santa Claus...

I have to do some shopping this weekend. Shoud be simple.

The new Stephen Colbert Christmas Special.

I prefer the Star Wars Holiday Special, personally.

((If anyone can read that without laughing at that acid trip....then you have to watch it.))

I had never been able to track down a copy for years, then a physics teacher/robotics advisor/ friend of mine informed me that he owned one. After a robotics team get together one night, he agreed to put it in, but only on the condition that he could  leave the room. The rest of us came rather close to gouging out our eyes with alan wrenches.

http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000594.html#rss Course there's always that Fett Holiday Special. lol

The Holiday Special is awful. Everyone must see it at least once, but never any more, it's almost even worse the second time round, cause you know what's going to happen. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. You know what's going to happen and that somehow makes it that much worse.

Oh my that was terribly clever.

Jango never realized how detrimental that that external activation switch would become.....

No way I'm ever watching the Holiday Special! Reading about it is bad enough. The closest I'll ever come is with the cartoon, which by no means is some great thing either. The horrible, cheap animation style makes me want to cry as well. I can forgive Fett for not being accuratly coloured since he was still in the developing stage at the time. But there is NO excuse for everyone else! >_<