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Engage Christmas Spirit!

December 17, 2008 12:37 AM

should give credit to Dee--I bastardized her Facebook status for this post's title.

Anyway, for a number of reasons, I feel like I'm finally ready to start thinking about celebrating Christmas. I was most certainly not ready in October when the ever-expanding Christmas season started this year, but I'm ready now.

First of all, I bought my plane tickets home today. So, while several courts are desperately trying to keep me in Wisconsin over the holiday, I will be in California with my family. I haven't seen my mom since graduation in May of 2007, and I haven't seen my grandma since Christmas, 2006. Needless to say that I'm excited.

Secondly, it's fucking beautiful outside. I know that people used to the cold weather are really not happy about this shit, but the inches and inches of snow we got tonight make me smile from ear to ear. It's just beautiful. I probably won't be smiling too much tomorrow when I have to dig my car out from under all this crap, but right now, it's awesome.

And finally, something that I had been dreading happened today. And it ended up not being nearly as bad as I had thought it was going to be. I'm not calling this thing a Christmas miracle by any means since I still have a lot of work to do and a "good" result is by no means assured, but, for the time being, disaster has been averted.

So, yeah. I'm pumped.