there are some pretty flashy blogs on this here blogspot.com. someday, i'll learn how to do that too. or not. either way, i'll keep on using this thing as a reprieve from doing payroll. or, i could say that i'm playing with it to keep up my html skills while IT tries to unbury my ERAP site from whereever they put it. i'm sure Dan'll buy that.

today, as i'm sure all of you are aware, is christmas eve's eve. which means no work is getting done, even though i'm here. everyone is a jolly mood and wearing hats, or dressed like the mascot for L.L.Bean and nothing productive is anywhere in sight. i love the holidays. i really do. for all of my hateful, evil spewing ways, there's something about christmas that just fills me with joy. i love everything about it - the way the lights look outside when snow lands on them, the finding of the perfect present for that certain someone, wrapping it, giving it and seeing the smile in their eyes. and yeah, i'll admit, i really like getting presents too. i don't care how much they cost, i'm old enough now that i can say and actually mean it when i say it - "it's the thought that counts." of course, it helps if thought was put into it. but even if it's just a random gift, i'm so overloaded on happy from this time of year that i'm still all a glow when i open it.

so yeah, i can't concentrate on work today because i'm too giddy at the thought of going home, helping my mom wrap her last presents (she can't wrap to save her life while i consider each present i wrap to be a work of art) drink some wine and watch some bad movies. and then - christmas morning and suddenly i'm like a little kid again (more so than usual) and life seems simple and innocent again. and in a way, it is. the dog plays in the discarded wrapping paper, dad makes bacon and life is good.