Merry Christmas! (Two days late...)

Hope everyone's Christmas was great; mine was.  Saw all kinds of family and got a really cute tea kettle.  Didn't hear the "Happy Birthday, Jesus" song even ONCE, which means this was the best Christmas ever.

And... wow.  Is that all I really have to say?  Life is boring once you finish college and get a job, kids.  Don't do it.

Oh, I saw Beth B. graduate from IWU a few weeks ago, and that was good!  Yay Beth!  I'm proud of you; you didn't trip once!  Oh, and the whole getting your degree thing is great, too.  We stayed up past five the night before talking and watching Walk the Line.  Always a good plan for when you're graduating.  Me, I stayed up past two when I graduated, I think.  Cleaning and packing because I was moving out and graduating on the same day.  That sucked.  Anyway.

Oh, and my little Sara is safe home from Belgium!  This was a while ago. She and Rachel and I are going to hit Chicago for New Year's!  Woo hoo!  This is the first time I've actually gone anywhere (out of town) for New Year's, and I am excited.

OK so...yeah.  I got nothing else.

...did Xanga get rid of the "Currently Reading" feature?  Where have I been?

ETA: Maybe the new version of Internet Explorer doesn't support the "Currently" feature?

 Happy Thanksgiving to me: my job becomes permanent on Monday!!!

Back in Cincinnati for the holiday weekend...mmmm.

Also, found this while on my Yahoo music station (click the picture to enlarge):

OK so the top left and bottom right artists are not, in fact, the same person.  They're Colin Meloy and Ben Gibbard.  And I'm sure how alike they look has been oft-documented in the music world.  But... the same clothes??  Guys?  Was this planned?  I wouldn't put it past them.  They have collaborated before...

I am alive!

Yeah... haven't been on xanga in over a month.  So, er... sorry if I never replied to a comment you may have left me...

Anyway.  Loving it here in MI (except it's starting to get cold).  Job is alllllllllmost permanent (I know, I know, I've been saying that for years).  My apartment finally stopped smelling like stale cigarette smoke after my window got fixed and I could get it open to let out the foul, foul air that the last tenants left.  Bleh.

I am attending the college student service at an Episcopal church in town and liking it.  And, as always, I am adoring the town I live in.  I really, really need to post some pictures.  Here's a teaser: hubcap store, practically across the street from my apartment complex.  I somehow didn't notice it until a week or two ago.  It has hubcaps displayed all over the front of the building.  How I missed this for three weeks, I'll never know.  Hilarious.

OK well, that's all for now.  Really, nothing much else to report.  Except that I'm happy.  Whee!

I am in love with this town I am living in.  First of all, the population is under 4,000.  So small!  I adore it.  Secondly, I missed the turn into my apartment coming home this afternoon (still learning), so I turned around in the residential neighborhood of the town.  As I drove down a street, I saw a priest ambling along the sidewalk.  In his collar!  That made me smile.  I feel like I'm living in a slightly more podunk-y Stars Hollow (for non-Gilmore Girls fans, that's the small New England town the show is set in).

Speaking of which, I didn't get to see Gilmore Girls tonight, as I don't get cable and thanks to the stupid CW merger, I don't think it plays on broadcast around here.  At least, it's not one of the six channels I get with my bunny ears.  Sigh.  I WILL find a way to watch the show, though.  Somehow. *Shakes fist at the CW network*

Oh, I went to the student Episcopal service in the college town Sunday before last, and really liked it.  The service is easier to follow than the church in Marion, and I really like the people.  Hurrah!

Hey!  We can tag entries now!  Finally.  Though I'm too lazy right now to start categorizing.