I love the holidays (aside from standing in line for Santa...that sucks it hard. Everyone wants to get a picture with the mall Santa, propping up their squalling little life form on his lap, making faces and squeaking toys all in the hopes that the kid will stop screaming for a second and a half so they can get the perfect Christmas present, and guess what...doesn't work. Welcome to Baby's First Screamin' Christmas. Me, I just want my kids to jump up on Santa's lap, tell him what they want, hop down, say thank you and get their candy canes. 45 minutes in line for three minutes...that does NOT fill me with Christmas spirit).
Anyway, I really do love the holidays. I'm unabashedly fond of every bit about it: hunting for parking spaces, 103.3 playing 24 hours of Christmas music from Thanksgiving through Christmas, pushing over old people to get to the last awesomest gift in the perfect color, my kids overwhelming excitement growing more and more overwhelming every day, nasty weather, 17 straight days off from work, decorations on the houses, watching meaningless bowl games on tv (and seeing snow on HD...LOVE that). That's just the start of the list.
I love buying presents and giving presents. I love being with my family. I love my friends; for those that don't know me, I'm not especially close with my sister, and both my parents live far enough away that they don't make it out to my house very much, but I have a group of friends that I've known for almost 30 years, and every one of them is like family. So this holiday season I get to spend time with them, celebrating at our annual Christmas party, hang out on New Year's, and that is easily one of the best parts of the holidays.
Not exactly hilarious, I know, but Christmas makes me happy and a little overly sentimental. So to all of you that stop by and read, and the 12 kick ass fans I have, I wish you and your family the very best Holiday season.
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