The Day After

I've been gone for a long time. No, I wasn't away, I was still in the country. In fact, I was still in San Jose. Just...busy, is all. I'm babysitting for most of the break so I'm using that to explain my absence. Plus...studying for finals and all that CRAP. I hate school with a fury that can only be detained in a little green book that I call a journal. Speaking of that journal, thanks Alex for buying me a new one, the Little Green Book is running out of pages for me to write in. I'm grateful.

So, I just read The Lovely Bones thanks to Vanessa (my secret Santa, thanks). Its a great book. Maybe I'm a little late; this book has been hovering for a long time now. Anyway, its good. I think that it tops my favorite book list and I've read a lot of books. You don't understand...this book had me CRYING...you know, that quiet sobbing you do when you're in so much emotional pain that you can't restrain it or repress it. Yes, I cried. That's how moving it was. That's how good it was. That book is forever in my head. I wonder what heaven is like....I want to live in that book, there is love in the binding of those pages.

Day after Christmas. I'm glad to report that my Christmas was a-okay. At first, I was pretty pissed off because what I was wearing made me look like a granny (you'd love to see that wouldn't you? Too bad.), but then I got in the spirit. My mom's-side-cousins and I watched Minority Report on VHS before opening presents. I watched that during the summer. Pretty good movie for a Tom Cruise flick. I like that part when he's talkin about Huckleberry Finn near the end...that part is so retarded. I received a lot of money....a CD...no, more CDs....2 sweaters....and...more clothes I think. After that, we went to our Dad's mom's house. It was the first time we had it there in....a couple years. I miss it. I liked having it there. I liked opening presents there. My cousins are all growing up now...its freaky. Hmm...Yeah....I liked it...then we went home and my mom, dad, sister, and I took pictures and opened the presents we gave each other. It was fun. It was the most fun I remember having with them in a long time...and this only took an hour. I wanted to freeze that time because it was different...in all the hours of the 365 days of the year...that one is my favorite I think.

So today, I'm wishing you a belated Merry Christmas. On New Year's, I'll be sure to do it on time.