Last night a friend of mine said, "I enjoyed your blog." My first thought was, "huh?" Yeah, this regular blog update thing is going well. I really do want to write regularly and I've tried to find ways to do that (paper journals, daily five-year journal, online journal, story journal, dirty journal, setting schedules, this blog) and I just don't seem to be able to stick to it. For someone with a touch of the OCD and a love of spreadsheets and schedules I don't seem to be sticking to a writing schedule really well. But I did only start this a few weeks ago so maybe we can give it time. And maybe it will inspire the other writing. Hmmmmm...

On other topics I drank a carafe of raspberry frozen margarita last night. Awesome. You are a bad, bad influence, K. And way more fun than an office party. From which only one person has shown up in the office after. Crazy Economists.

I love the Holidays. I am a total Christmas Dork. But I sometimes get so caught up in the stress of it all that I forget that it's not a neccessary thing, and I actually do all of this stuff because I love it and not because I have to do it. Though a friend of mine and I are in a debate as to whether or not plagues will be visited upon the world if I do not bake 20 dozen Christmas cookies by December 15th. I haven't baked any yet and we did just have a 'blizzard' this past weekend in NYC...

But I do love it. I love Christmas shopping in 'blizzard' conditions. I love doing 100+ Christmas cards and listening to Christmas CDs and spending way too much money on way too many Christmas gifts and baking all kinds of holiday cookies that I hardly eat myself and so on and so forth. It's fun. I love wearing santa hats and geeky jingle bell earrings. But then I start making to do lists and consulting my Christmas03.xls spreadsheet and start thinking of all the things I want to do as things I have to do and then I get stressed and want to go sit on my couch and eat Cheetos while watching hours of Charlie's Angels episodes. It's silly.

So, I'm typing this to remind myself that I like doing this and if I stop liking it, I can stop doing it. Yes. Okay. Doing better now.

Back to the Christmas Cards.