It's Christmas Time!!

OK people. I promise to get better at this once time restraints are no longer an issue. How vague is that? Anyway, we are rapidly approaching one of my very favorite times of the year. Christmas. While I am not overly religious, I will always put Christ in Christmas. More out of respect than anything, but for some reason it annoys the bejeebus out of me to see the X in front of it. Are you lazy or what? If you are an atheist or whatever, I could see it but then why celebrate it at all. Oh well. To each his own, you know?

Now, onto the fun stuff. PRESENTS!! I LOVE giving presents!! It totally makes my year. I look forward to this all year. I even start super early. This year, I have become crafty. For those of you who know me, I do not where/why/when this happened, but it did. Get over it. So I am actually making a lot of my gifts this year. I personally would rather have a gift that you made and actually put some thought into than a store bought, so that is what I am doing for the majority of my friends and family. Probably not my children because, well, they are children. And they sprang from my loins and I did not always feel this way.

I am not making the gifts to be cheap. On the contrary, it actually costs a lot more to be crafty than to just go buy something. But it is so fun and I promise, a lot of thought, effort and hard work has gone into it. So if you are (un)lucky enough to receive a gift from me this year - that was the thought process behind it. I hope you like it. If not, jump right up my butt!

I am also in the process of Griswolding my home and office. I bought the cutest Charlie Brown Christmas tree ever last night and I am going to put it up in my office and decorate it to death. So cute.

Well, I feel like I have rambled on long enough for y'all to be annoyed so I will close with this. Whatever your religion or lack thereof, this is a wonderful time of year. It is to be filled with love, laughter and merriment. Please, hug your family and friends tight. Tell them you love them - even if sometimes you don’t - because they may not always be there and time marches on no matter how hard I try to stop it.

I'll try to bore you again before the actual holiday, but with the parties, work and finals it is going to be busy so I want to tell you now, Merry Christmas my friendlies. You are appreciated and loved. Whether you want to be or not!