Christmas Facts

Hello there! Here are some vaguely Christmas-related facts!

1) A while back, on a blog I cannot link to because God knows what else I wrote over there, I wrote a post about a friend that I had broken up with, and all the mental anguish and hard times that event had caused me. Well, on Friday that friend and I had lunch, and everything is ok now, and I gotta tell ya, it feels pretty good. It's like when I'm sitting at my desk with my shoulders all unconsciously scrunched up, and then I stop working and take a deep breath and BAM! Aaaaahhhh. Relief from psychic static that I was not even aware of. It's a Christmas miracle!

2) I know that if you're reading my blog, you're not here for the latest in video game news. Which is why I don't mind telling you about an awesome video game that came out 2 months ago: Fallout 3. I got it for Lee for his birthday, so he'd have something sweet to play on his tricked-out new desktop computer, and it was only just this weekend that he finally let me play it. Looking back, this was probably a good call on his part, because between Saturday and Sunday I probably played that game for a total of 8 hours, and now that I'm not in Chapel Hill anymore, I... I think I miss the game more than my boyfriend. (Just kidding Lee! I love you!)

3) In my head, I have many many readers from all over the world. (Many very quiet readers. Shut up.) Some of these readers don't even speak English, but they come here anyway, laboriously translating my words using babelfish or something similar, just to get a taste of the wisdom that I have to offer. Well seekers, let me enlighten you on a little fact about North Carolina, the exotic place that I call home. All last week, it was almost 60 degrees in North Carolina. Monday, it was barely 35 degrees. Where you come from, this ridiculous temperature shift might be heralded as a sign of the apocalypse, but here, it's just further proof that this truly is the promiseland.

4) I have spent the better part of the past 2 weeks singing Christmas carols, which is strange, because I don't remember being the kind of person to wander around singing Christmas carols. Sadly, I have somehow forgotten half the lyrics to every song I want to sing. In a way this is a blessing, because it is how I learned that Lee apparently knows the words to every Christmas carol, ever, because he kept correcting me everytime I screwed one up. Unfortunately, if you're thinking that this means that Lee has to perform a one-man caroling revue for me, then boy are you ever wrong. Lee "doesn't sing," I've been informed. But I have a secret weapon that I think will change his mind. (Hint: it's vodka.)

5) Remember how I said that I have that weird problem with using "Jesus Christ" as a curse, even though I'm not particularly religious? Well that extends to abbreviating 'Christmas' as 'Xmas.' Because, you know, it just seems rude to cut Jesus right out of his own holiday. (Well, one of his holidays, anyway.) And now that everybody is all about "putting Christ back in Christmas," or whatever, I think it's even more important for me to at least leave him in the name, even though I'm a terrible heathen and don't go to church on Christmas Eve, and will probably accidentally curse and/or think impure thoughts sometime on Christmas Day.

You know, I was concerned that my "Christmas Facts" weren't really going to have much to do with Christmas, but this turned out all right. And that, loyal readers, is my gift to you.