I got the best Christmas gift ever from my brother today. He is seriously the most thoughtful and generous person I know.
I just love that it’s engraved too. I am gonna love it forever and ever. Well, until the newer model comes out at least. : )
I was about as excited as this kid was and ran around my apartment holding the box over my head yelling, “I GOT AN IPAD!!! OH MY GOD!!!”
I still have no idea how to use it though and I’m just banging on the screen like a caveman.
I tend to get a little down when the holiday season rolls around and I miss my family more than ever. I know this is something I need to get used to…with the lives we all chose to live it seems we will constantly be separated by oceans and $800 plane tickets.
I’m determined not turn into a Grinch this year and to focus on all the great things in my life and make this grown up version of Christmas (no more sleeping under the Christmas tree and peeing on everyone’s presents) something to look forward to.
With 12 days left until Christmas, I’m going to make a list of things I could do to get more into the spirit. I saw a list of 25 Christmas Challenges via Rockstar Diaries, based around bettering yourself and bringing cheer to others, and decided to modify it and make it my own. So here it is:
12 Days of Christmas Spirit-ness:
1) Do a good deed anonymously.
2) Try to forgive someone who has wronged you, be reconciled.
3) Phone or send a card to an old friend or family member.
4) Try to be as kind as possible to others today.
5) Do volunteer work for some worthy cause.
6) Tell someone you love them.
7) Make goals for yourself, seal a copy in an envelope to be opened in a year.
8 ) Only say positive things today.
9) Tell somebody something you love about them.
10) Go out of your way- befriend someone who needs a friend.
11) Make a Christmas treat for someone else.
12) Eat lots of sugar cookies. (Hey, it’s good for your soul).
I was having one of those blah days today where nothing was wrong but I still couldn’t crack a smile. But then out of no where I was surprised with a cheesecake spelled out in my name. How do you not smile at that? And it was delicious!
I saw this funny article about researchers in China dressing up as pandas to take care of panda cubs and prepare them for their natural habitat via Hans today. (We both have a fondness for fluffy animals…I can just see us growing old together, sharing a bed overflowed with stuffed animals). The concept and the pictures crack me up. Could a panda cub be that gullible?
I feel like this picture should be hanging in some panda family’s den somewhere.
Cubnapped!
Why is this cub being put in a Container Store box?
Um, is this as traumatic for panda cubs as it is for children seeing characters out of costume in Disneyland? I would think so.
Still, put this researcher’s job at the top of my coolest jobs list. Get to dress up in animal costumes and play with panda babies? Where do I sign up?
