ELF

I feel awful. My last post was the biggin of 100. I wasted it.
I wasted my 100th post of the sadness that followed an acting exercise I did this past week.
I should make up for this somehow...but I don't know how.
I'll think on it.


It feels like winter right now.
Fall has very quickly come and is almost gone.
First freeze tonight. We brought the mums in. Silly things, they're still budding, they think it's ok to grow right now...I mean, really mums, don't you know you're in Kansas and your lifespan will be cut rather short...?

After the venture of my long lost friend Damien last night, today I have been listening to a lot of old friends and current blues/jazzeque artists. Par example: Amos Lee, Norah Jones, Kt Tunstall (some of her), Anna Vandas, Michael Buble, as well as the greats.
These tunes mixed with the cold winter wind veering it's ugliness against my windows, the early darkness, and my coffee makes me want to decorate the house for Christmas.

You know, a few weeks ago driving home NPR told me that to boost consumer confidence most stores were going to put Christmas stock out extremely early this year as well as advertise for it. I thought "wow...that's neat, but I'm still not ready for that". Wrong. You forget how happy 'tis the season' time of year makes you until you're surrounded by it. Walking around in Target today, buying a heater for my room no less, I stopped in amazement at the end of the greatest isle ever created. The Christmas tree isle. They were not up yet mind you, but they were still in the boxes, just lying there in the back of the store. My mind was racing with all the ideas of what Christmas will be like this year, how many families will own those trees and what they will look like, the happiness they will have decorating, baking, eating cookies and turkey along with wonderful things like listening to Holly Brooke drinking coffee after a long day of visiting families and unwrapping gifts. Not to mention the long marathons on ABC family of ELF, White Christmas, and every claymation Holiday film ever created. Those are the best. I love my red and white Christmas stripped socks. It will be cold enough tonight to wear them...to bad they are three hours away at home because winter was not supposed to be here yet. I wonder if all this early advertisement has not only tricked my mums but also the weather. Blast this trickery.

Christmas is coming consumers.