So This is Christmas

So last week I wrote a killer blog about the movie Happy Feet and how it was more than horrible. I went on and on about how the movie broke every children's movie law that there is and how the people that wrote it, filmed it and produced it should have to go to every elementary school in the nation and apologize in person for turning a fun looking children's movie into a animal rights agenda pushing UN involving charade. However, when I went to save the post the Internet was down and I lost the entire thing. I was so worn out from being up on my high horse for so long I didn't have it in my to write it again so I called it quits and spent the rest of the day sitting at my desk and crying as I thought about poor Happy Feet and all he had to do to save the penguin population.

But don't fear, I am back this week with new enthusiasm for blogging. And so I must begin this post with the vastly important question, "what have I been thinking?" Now you might think you know what I have been thinking about. I am sure many of y'all are thinking that I have been thinking about A&M's spectacular game against the once almighty and oh so hard to beat UT Longhorns. You might be thinking that I have been thinking about how no one thought A&M would be able to beat UT in Austin, a feat that they had not accomplished since 1994. An accomplishment that had not even taken place in this century. I must say if you were thinking that I had been thinking about that then you would be making a very good guess. But you'd be wrong.

Yes my friends I have been thinking about something else. Something grand and great and awesome and glorious. You see, I have been thinking about Christmas. In fact on Saturday Krista and I had our annual "Beginning of Christmas Day." That day always takes place the Saturday after Thanksgiving. And on that day we wake up and put some Christmas tunes on (this year we began with John Lennon's classic "So This Is Christmas" and then moved on to Sinatra's rendition of "Jingle Bells"). I then begin to rummage through all of our junk to find our Christmas decorations and Krista begins to make fudge. Ah yes, fudge. One of God's greatest gifts to mankind. A gift so good that it can really only be enjoyed once a year during Christmas time or else one could explode from all the goodness. After the fudge is made and cooling Krista and I are off to go make four key Christmas purchases. The first of course is a new Christmas CD. And I must say this year I picked a beauty. Sufjan Stevens Christmas. A 5 CD set complete with stickers, a comic strip and songbook. It is truly amazing. The next purchase we made was a classic Christmas DVD. This is tradition. Every year we must buy a new Christmas CD and Christmas DVD. This year I got to pick out the CD and Krista got to pick out the DVD. She choose her nostalgic favorite, "A White Christmas." After that we were off to Target to make our next key purchase, this year's Christmas Tree ornament. I think I can honestly say that we picked the best one they had. It is a wooden star with a cut-out so that we can insert a picture in it. It looks great. Once the Christmas tree ornament is picked out it is off to make the most important purchase of the day...the Christmas Tree. Of course with the picking of the Christmas Tree also come the competition of who can find the best tree first. And without going into too much detail I must say that I crushed Krista this year. In record time I came across the perfect tree. It was purchased, wrapped, thrown on top of Cloe the Corolla and escorted back to apartment 532.

Once the purchases are made "Beginning of Christmas Day" turns into a Christmas decorating extravaganza. I hang lights on the balcony, Krista decorates the house, I hang lights on the Christmas Tree, Krista hangs the ornaments on the tree and we eat fudge. Ah fudge. And then once the house is decorated and the lights are on outside and on the tree we turn off all the regular lights and we put on our favorite Christmas movie...Elf.

What a spectacular day. Once we have had "Beginning of Christmas Day" all I can really think about is Christmas. So, accordingly that is what I have been thinking about, and thus this weeks blog. And with that I leave you to think about what I've been thinking about.