The Ghost of Christmas Past

How in the hell did Christmas come and go so quickly? It seems like only yesterday that I was beggining my holiday shopping and waiting for my sister to come home from college. The large buildup of anticipation seemed less this year, than compared to years in recent memory. Blame it on the weather I guess, which has been much warmer this December than usual. At times I though it was spring.

The sleepy morning of opening gifts with the family was the same as it is every year. Literally it is the best day of the year in that one morning. Maybe it seemed like something was off because Christmas day was on a monday, and mondays suck. I prefer it to be on a thursday or friday, so that everyone is off for about 4 days in a row and the whole family just sits around the house enjoying the new toys we've recieved and generally spending quality time with each other. This year seemed to skip that, since we all went back to work the next day. Seems like the holiday lost a little something of itself then.

I'm not looking foreward to the decorations coming down, because then I know it's back to business as usual around here. It's just a cold marathon until spring with no real holidays worth any real attention until Easter. Despite what people think, Valentines day is a bullshit holiday and St. Patricks day isn't something anyone I know celebrates. We drink all the time, why make it a holiday?

I don't have much else to say, so I guess you should all make the most of the last days of 2006 because there aren't many left. What do I wish I'd done this year? Gotten a better job, and that's it. Everything else about this year has been splendid, especially when I went on vacation to Canada. So the marathon begins in just a few days.

Christmas...nearly here

Well Christmas Eve is only what, two days away now? I've got all my shopping done for the most part, although I still haven't been able to find a gravy seperator for my mom who has been asking for one since Thanksgiving. Maybe in the final hours one will turn up.

We just got our new computer yesterday because our old one died and died in such a way that I was unable to repair it. I'm happy to have an up to date machine running current software, since our old machine was running Win98SE...whatever, as long as it works properly.

Tonight I think I'm going to stop by a bar to see some friends for a guys birthday, and tommorow is Gump's birthday party. Tommorow we're going cosmic bowling for Gump, but I don't recall where. I'm sure I'll be making cookies this weekend too, as I've been slacking. But only because I've been dieting and cookies are not on a diet. Maybe I'll just eat a fuckton of them at once and hope I pass 'em all quickly.

NJN has played our last show of the year and our next show is in January at the Ten Mile House. Heather has been skipping practice because of her IBS and we are working on brand spanking new music. We have at least 7 new, never before heard songs that we're working on. Then there's teh studio, I don't think it's ever going to be finished. We haven't been back since like spring I think.

Thats all for now. Merry Christmas.