as much as i generally like christmas, i'll be glad when these holidays are over.

1. as much as i like my family, i would rather not be around them. i don't mind being related to them, but they annoy me.

2. i'm feeling better, but i'm super tired. having to share an air matress with my sister (and the cat and dog if they felt like it) for two nights didn't help that much.

3. i wasn't expecting much for christmas, and i liked that i got a couple of books off of my amazon wishlist (a book of thurber drawings and writings, and the silmarillion), but i only had five things on my wishlist. i didn't get any of those things, including two towers or a day planner. clearly, by having them on my wishlist, i wanted them.

4. at least my sister got me a dvd player. she was being generous.

5. this computer is very very slow. we still have dialup, we're trying to convince our parents to get cable internet. but it makes it very hard to want to check my email or do anything, including all of the stuff i didn't do while i was at school and now need to do over break. like write my articles for my page. hm...think derek would get mad if i just skipped all of that?

for some reason, this computer screen makes my vision go all blurry. or maybe it's just my eyes.