YouTube & the holidays (catching up)

haven’t written lately and just felt the blogging spirit nudging me.  i ordered a wreath from one of my coworkers to help support his son’s boy scout troup.  i love the smell of the fresh pine.  the other day i found this yankee candle with a christmas wreath scent.  omg!  i left the room for a min and when i came back i was hit by this smell like the wreath i have on the front door to my apartment.  awesome!  this is my 1st christmas living in my own place.  alone.  it is interesting to say the least, but so far i am enjoying it.  bought a few battery operated candles for my windows, got decorations all over the apartment, hung a wreath on my door, and got christmas lights in the landing and down the staircase that leads to my 2nd floor apartment.  sweet!  now im uploading a new holiday play list to my ipod and am loving the random christmas carol on tv and the radio.  not ready for constant playback yet though, and i haven’t even started my holiday shopping.  cards will get sent out this weekend though.  we had a ton of rain the past few days and all i could think of was how much snow that would have been.  i traded in my vw gti and bought a 2008 jeep wrangler.  im dying to play with it in the snow!  i found, in my desperation to stay awake at work last night, through wikianswers that 1 inch of rain is about 10 inches of snow, 16 inches dry powder or 5 inches of wet slush.  the average being about 10.  if that was snow instead of rain the past few days we’d have a good 3ft+ of snow.  doh!  i was all set to go out tonight and now with the cold and the wind, im slowly loosing motivation.  i just opened a bottle of honig’s sauv blanc and am relaxing for a while.  see what mood strikes.  have a holiday blood drive and firehouse party tomorrow so it will be a long day.  staying in isn’t necessarily a bad thing tonight.  i wonder what happened to the holiday spirit i had when i was growing up.  even from high school and college.  is it the stress of living on my own?  still being single?  away from close friends?  not sure…  but i have noticed that a lot of people these days either ooze holiday cheer or scream scrooge.  i hope to never hit the scroog extreme.  in my wanderings online i came across a set of gap commercials for the holidays.  check them out and have fun with them.  a great take on a old tradition.

and if for what ever reason i don’t get back on here i hope you all have a merry , and wish you well in what ever celebrations you partake in.

YouTube – Jingle Bells – All Cast ~in case the above video doesn’t work here is the direct link.