101

Ah
this is my 101st posts!!
[huge applause, amid cheering and clapping]

So convenient to reach this momentous occasion at such a remarkable time of year. It adds so much to the Christmas Holidays.

With the festivities approaching at high speeds we have been

-baking (who doesn't bake at Christmas time?)
we have these very cool Norwegian recipe's that we use every year for Christmas cookies, and they all have these complicated names like prostenisheiver and berlinerkranser...(you sound pretty knowlegdeable after rattling those names off...)

-cleaning (see above)
this shouldn't need explaining

-drawing names
we draw names for stockings...which can get interesting...

-opening advent calendars
not sure what it is but our family has an ongoing fascination with advent calendars...maybe it's just us...

-debating about getting a Christmas tree
this year will be interesting, ever since we got our new piano, we've been a little pressed for space in our living room. We thought we could sell our old piano but that hasn't happened yet. We could put a Christmas tree in the living room, there just wouldn't be any room for us. Which could cause problems...

-keeping secrets
oh yes, our family has lots of secrets...especially at Christmas time

-blowing secrets
yup, at least one gets destroyed sometime...

-admiring the weather
60 degrees in December? I'm not complaining...

-waiting...
5 days away

Almost seems too fast.
A semester already over.
Another one about to begin.
My last one.

What is Pain?

well, I now know the answer...

or, part of it. It's not something I've ever felt before, but I've felt it now. 45 minutes of it, and it's called rehab, the day after surgery. but that's over now...

the drugs do make things interesting though...a little codeine to screw things up, I've already made a fool of myself with the stuff. You feel disastrously unconcerned about most things and uncommonly ignorant about everything else, which makes for some interesting lines...

The surgery was good, no severe complications which is always a nice thing to know...the best thing is that I've made incredible progress in rehab and that I'm already walking! well, I kinda needed to. I was in our choir, end of the semester, concert (which was amazingly cool and we put on a glorious performance!!) and I had to be standing and walking...sooo...it was necessary. but hey, at least I'm not in a wheelchair...

I also took the SAT yesterday...and that wasn't the brightest thing to do, but I might have elevated my essay score, (essays...whoever came up with that lame idea...ugh) but seriously, the college board created the test and so now colleges have to look at the essays and teachers have to grade them and the students have to do it...not because everybody wants to but because everybody has to. so impractical...and get this, you don't even have to have factual evidence to back up what you say in the essay, you can just make stuff up and as long as it supports your case...I mean seriously...

well, I'll leave you all with this amazing fact of life that I found

"Mules kill more people annually then plane crashes"