i'm going to turn so emo

I think this is my first downer post.
It's just that things aren't so hot right now.

But I know they'll get better. I just have to sit with me and my brain and a cup of tea and think. And then I should knit and listen to Christmas music and think some more.

I also plan on drinking copious amounts of egg nog and eating millions of Christmas cookies in the next few weeks. And listening to "Feliz Navidad" always makes me feel good.

In other news, I wrote this really awesome Christmas letter and I also made homemade Christmas cards (read: me and artistic abilities? notsomuch). Last weekend I enthusiastically went to the post office and sent off my stuff to all my peeps out there and then I realized that I forgot the Christmas letters. I sent only the (reallyreallycrappy) homemade Christmas cards. Am hoping for round-two of holycrapican'tbelieveitcoststhatmuchtomailthisstuff Christmas mailing v. soon.

Also, I finished my g-ma's Christmas present and must now shop for my English family members, one of whom I haven't seen since he was like 2 weeks old and the other I've never met. Should be interesting, eh?
In 10 days I'll be in England. Holllerrrrrrrrr

embarassing things I did today

Number One: I just finished up the most random and confusing IM conversation of my life, thinking I was talking to one friend but really not talking to her at all. I could have been talking to someone in Papua New Guinea for all I know. How'd I do it? Well, I thought I'd added my friend's IM name onto my buddylist correctly but... guess what... I didn't. So I started talking to her and for a hot sec it was making sense b/c I think these two peeps might be kinda similar (random and weird AGAIN!) and then she was like "did you get the math homework?" and I'm like WHAT the bananas? And THEN the friend who i THOUGHT I was talking to showed up on GChat and started talking to me THERE and I was like huh? but I thought we were just doing a double-communication thing. We weren't.
what the heck.


Number Two: Got back from work at school number two today and realized that I'd left my teaching book there. This teaching book contains notes from every class that I teach describing what we did for the day and what we should do next week. It also has random notes like "why the bleep does this teacher leave this class?" "oh my god, she took out her cell phone in the middle of class! oh no she didn't!" and "[bleep] she just saw me texting. [bleep]"

It's been an awesome day.