Holiday thoughts (wow Thanksgiving is next week!)

The holidays are going to be very different this year. My mother moved out of my childhood home and my brother is leaving for boot camp in the beginning of December. We're going out to a restaurant for Thanksgiving which I've never done before. My mother's new place is very small and my aunt and uncle who sometimes host are packing up to move so we don't really have many options.

We're celebrating Christmas before my brother leaves and I'm stuck on what to get him. Anything I get he'll only have a week to enjoy before he leaves. I could just get him some beer and a steak and call it a day. I don't think its hit me yet that he's leaving. It will at some point I'm sure. He's going to miss Christmas, New Years and my birthday. He makes sure any party he's at is fun. My roommate jokes that all he has to do is walk into a party and people start falling on the floor wasted. This stems from an impromptu get together with some friends and my brother and two of my roommates coming home to find all of us lying on the dining room floor in the dark listening to "I write sins not Tragedies" on repeat with bottles everywhere. My brother was still trying to get people to do shots.

Somehow it will be ok. It will be different but being with my family is all that matters.

I would also like to point out that walking through the mall to get to work everyday I am bombarded by Christmas decorations which I think went up right after Halloween. It's not time people! I'm also afraid one of those giant stars hanging around is going to fall on my head.

P.S. If someone wants to get me a GPS for Christmas, that would be awesome.

Good mood

I'm in a good mood today. I feel like a lot of Americans are. I'm happy that I got to vote in this election. This is history. I wish I had been out in the city last night but I visited my family in the burbs.

The election results are not the only reason why I'm in a good mood. I visited my mom and my brother last night for dinner. I wish everyone could meet my mother and brother because they crack me up. It's very obvious that we are related. My mother was doing Beowulf impressions last night because my brother has been watching that movie on repeat. My mother kept saying "My name is Beowulf and I've come to kill your monster and fight him half naked". My brother then yelled "real men fight naked". I just sat on the couch making manly fighting noises.

I've also decided to post some links on this blog. I feel the need to share stuff that I find on the interents.

I love the show How I Met Your Mother. I just started watching it last season and I don't know what took me so long to start watching! So here's a Q & A with the creators of the show that I enjoyed.