Random Sunday, Random Thoughts

Hello there,

First off... I got say...

I loves me some Jake Gyllenhaal!

Ok, moving on to more important and worthwhile topics....

7 days until Christmas. That's only one week. Seven days placed together in succession and then it will be Christmas day. This might be an odd holiday for me. Not only is it my first Christmas away from the family, it's my first Christmas as an "adult". True, the United States government has recognized me as an adult for the last five years, but according to the laws of all things reality, TRUE adulthood comes when you pack up your belongings (being careful to leave behind the Pillow Person you've had since you were four) and head out on your own. I realize that the meaning of Christmas is anything but the presents one receives, but this gradual advancement into adulthood has quite an effect on the giving and receiving parts of this joy-filled Holiday. Gifts from parents that began as socks and bras somehow morph into gift cards and checks. Cards from relatives are now addressed only to you and you are suddenly responsible for the giving of gifts to all those to whom you used to just add your name onto the card. Christmas is different as an adult, there's no doubt about that, but I think that those differences just add to the excitement and newness of adulthood!

Ok, enough of that babble. I don't have much else to write about this afternoon and I think the frigid temperatures of this office are causing my brain fluids to freeze. Therefore, I will have to bid you adieu and write more at another time!

Haul out the Holly,

Tempa