got my first christmas card of this season (and the first in my apartment). it was from Gary. Gary is one of the very few people i still talk to from my first years online. in fact, i want to say he is the only one i still talk to. no one could ask for a more true and faithful friend. thank you Gary!!! *hugs*

please feel free to ask for my address if you’d like it. i’m not posting it here since this is a public entry, but i have no problem giving it to friends.

i will be trying to get a few christmas cards out this year. i need to get a better system down for sending them as i would like to send them to many more people than i do. but it takes time.

christmas knitting has not gone as quickly as i had planned. but, it’s my own fault (of course it is… duh… who else is going to knit my presents). i keep trying to fill some void with shopping these days. selfish shopping too. which is no good at all. if i’m shopping the least i could be doing is buying christmas gifts. i had only planned on doing christmas for my immediate family this year. but you know if i have the money to spend on new shoes and clothes that i’ve bought lately, shouldn’t i have money for christmas presents? *sigh*

got my tree up thanksgiving weekend. thanks a million to Chris and Jill for not killing me when i asked them to help. they’re awesome… considering they were here to visit not decorate… lol. (i think that probably makes me a bad hostess though. i promise i don’t ask everyone to help me do something when they come over.) i was afraid the tree was going to be too big for my living room. and really… it is. but, it gives it a nice cozy feel. Oreo has claimed the skirt as she does most years. not sure why i bothered to put it out this year as i don’t think there’s even going to be any presents under there and it just means i have to de-fur it before i store it. speaking of storing things… i have no room to store the boxes of christmas stuff i have. i don’t have a lot… just running out of closet space and these units don’t have outside storage space like some apartments i’ve seen. that part is a bummer, but the pros still outweigh the cons of this apartment… for me at least. i definitely need to get pics up. i need a day where the place is at least semi-clean though… hehehe. i get it clean then don’t have time to take pics and then when i do have time take pics it needs cleaned again.

i think that as the end of 2007 approaches i should do some serious reflection over the last year… look back to where i was and where i went this year. i don’t usually give that much thought, but i think that it would help me with looking forward and making plans for the future. sometimes i get such a sense of dread or hopelessness about the future because i feel like i have so far to go to become a better person. part of that, though, is from not looking back to where i once was and how much better i am now compared to then.

i also feel that i should think about where i want to go with my life next year and set some meaningful and do-able goals for 2008… one of which may include going back to school.

ok, i feel like this is one of those rather boring and mundane posts that don’t mean much to anyone but me… sorry for that.