Last Saturday, after feeling particularly gloomy about not being able to see my family for the holidays, we booked a flight to North Carolina. We arrived today and it was a complete surprise to them. I'm getting used to smoking in restaurants and people that say ya'll and aren't trying to be funny or cute. We'll be heading to Charleston, SC for a one-day vacation next week.
I just flashed back on the time I made my mother buy some microwave popcorn because Paul Harvey said I had to try it. That man knows how to endorse a product. To this day, I confuse the news with the advertising truth.
We're Christmas treeless this year. Our original motivation for not getting a tree had something to do with the mess and effort that bringing a tree into a house entails. Additionally, we're notorious for neglecting to put our trees out for pickup after Christmas. Last year our tree sat in our backyard for three months. It turned brown and dry and eventually Ben had to hack it up and throw it into black hefty bags.
It was rather depressing.
Now, the big reason for not wanting a tree is that it's just a pointless activity. Kill a living tree, put it in a room and then throw it out. And since I was on the verge of tears every time I saw an Ent in The Two Towers, I'm thinking that we've made a good choice.
If it's the thought that counts, then why not give gift cards that have yet to be activated. This is the thought that went through my head while standing in a very line at Borders next to a display of seemingly free-for-taking useless gift cards.
I've been busy doing some pretty important thinking:
Mena: he's the type of person who cc's a fake lawyer
Anil: truly
Anil: that's like the very essence of a particular personality type
Anil: you have extracted the essence of asshole
