Deck the walls and all that jazz.

Well, looks like I'm probably the first on my street to get my tree and lights up. No outdoor lights this year, they are too much of a hassle to do when I'm not having a party. I still have a set of lights up on my garage from last year because I was too much of a slacker to take them down. However, they will have to come down now because the wind has made the velcro weak and they are hanging down all over the place. ::sigh::

Not sure why I put up the Christmas stuff today. I think it's because I like sitting in front of the Christmas tree and looking at the lights. It's sorta magical to sit there with the TV off and look at the lights while your mind wanders... especially if you have glasses like I do and you take them off. Makes a nice hazy glow around the tree.

I have a love/hate relationship with the holidays. I love being able to spend time with my family and looking at the lights, but I hate how commercialized and hurried everything is. I'm such a procrastinator that I put off any gift buying to the last minute, then I have to join the mob at the store trying to find something. Last year I shopped by catalog for just about everything and got most of it before Christmas, which worked out pretty well. I don't think I'll have time to do so this year, not that it really matters. Finances are pretty tight this year, so I won't be spending much.

In between working on training material today, I watched the ST:TNG marathon on TNN. They want to make sure that everyone knows that TNG is on TNN since they have run a TNG marathon of some kind for the last month. The one that was on today was pretty interesting because they talked about all the episodes where big named stars made guest appearances of some sort. I didn't know that Ashley Judd had started her acting career on TNG as Ensign Robin Lefler. The interesting things you learn when you work from home.

I'm going to Ocala tomorrow, gonna do the horse tack shopping spree down there with my mom, cousin and my friend Karen. Tack shopping for us is like clothes shopping for some women. It's an art for us... course, there aren't any good tack stores here in Jacksonville, the best ones to go to are in Ocala. So it turns into a day trip for us... we'll go down there, hit the tack stores and look at horse trailers, maybe visit some horse farms. Definetly going to be a fun day.