Pocket Full of Sunshine

Tada! Another semester survived! The week of finals (which I can hardly believe was only last week) was typically stressful, but uniquely wonderful. I kidnapped a random feller in a onsie for his birthday (and received a carnivorous plant currently named Seymour aka VENUS FLY TRAP) . The woman who birthed me and her second favorite child came on Tuesday, my longest childhood friend married her lover on Wednesday, and I disappeared into the vortex of library death until Friday night. Then the fun really started-I left for a random road trip with Sel at midnight to Idaho Falls. We jammed to the gem of a station that played non-stop 80's music and also had a truly "special" moment on a random back road in Malad that probably starred in House of Wax and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The party that commenced at Sel's house was fantastically epic. Party events: running in the snow, tour of IHS, viewing of the black lighted video game bathroom, shaving stray cats, lots of naps, onsie photo shoot, Youtube night, throwing a siesta with all of Idaho Falls' Hispanics, taking pictures for Father's Day, sledding down the ceiling of a cathedral, describing my Harry Potter alternate life to Sel's ever accepting family, and watching the flame of eternal Hogwarts love blossom in Sel's father heart. I have never seen a HP fan develop so quickly in someone. One of the better weekends of my life I daresay. Here are some recommendations for all to start your Christmas week off right

1. Sleep in-everyday. Including Christmas morning.

2. Blog about your Little Dancing Man cousin

3. Do a "drug deal" in the TJ Maxx in Salt Lake City

4. Hold three battles (only three) between two snow leopards and a polar bear to see who would win. Or between a seal and a pack of dancing penguins. Or a jumbo shrimp and an Alaskan King Crab. I would place my money on the jumbo shrimp-mostly because I would rather eat a jumbo shrimp than a king crab...

5. Fly in the award winning horror novelist who happens to have donated your other X chromosome

6. Avoid strangling yourself with Christmas lights after spending far too much time cooped up in your grandma's house that believes it still belongs in the 1960's (aka no internet)

7. Instead of reading Dickens' commonly read novel during this time of month, read his other beautiful novel, A Tale of Two Cities

8. Calculate a way to split oneself so one could maybe be in Idaho Falls with Sel at the same time the other half of oneself was in Utah.

9. Try not to destroy your beta cells and develop Type II diabetes by eating an overwhelming amount of chocolate, cookies, candy, candy canes, cauliflower, other foods that start with C.

10. Watch the Nativity Story-seriously one of the best movies I have ever seen. I may or may not have shed a tear of two while watching it in the back of a van whilst enjoying the spacious leg room with Sel.

11. Write the annual Christmas rap that puts Akon, Eminem, and 50 Cent to shame.

12. Wrangle up some flying reindeer, Stephen's Peppermint Hot coco, break into people's homes via a chimney, and spread Christmas joy to everyone by helping them learn the joy of sharing puppies, cars, ipods, really snazzy socks, plane tickets to exotic places, and moose shirts with a random, though very sweet and clever stranger who breaks into their homes on Christmas Eve night.

May your sanity reside with you all during the holidays! I am accepting bets on the battles described in Christmas Advice Point #4 in the form of cash or check or new cars or new laptops or food. :)