buzz and i are supposed to run for an hour and 40 minutes tonight, but the weather is looking ominous. thunderstorms and a cold front are supposed to sweep through later today, which may rain on our run. i sort of hope we make it though; otherwise, we’ll have to try to run tomorrow or thursday, and since i have plans on those days already, we’d have to leave at like 3:00 to fit in the run. trying to fit in a long run before it gets too dark is definitely a challenge in december. good thing we don’t live farther north!
last night was the branch christmas party at zio’s, which went well i think. we had a bigger turnout than last year, so i think that made the boss happy. we also did the gift exchange again, and i ended up with a cool gift for once! it’s a book of “letters from father christmas” that j.r.r. tolkien sent to his children each year, postmarked from the north pole. i started reading through them this morning while i was eating breakfast, and they are really clever and cute. well-illustrated, too.
i am in such a christmas mood. i dug out my handful of christmas cds and mp3s on saturday, and i’ve been listening to christmas music non-stop (in the car, on my ipod) ever since. i am picky about my christmas music, but in a strange way; there is no one particular genre that i like or don’t, but i definitely have preferences. currently in the rotation are two mannheim steamroller christmas albums, the vince guaraldi trio’s “a charlie brown christmas”, a random christmas cd from old navy with lots of jazzy upbeat rock-n-roll-ish songs, bing crosby, and the american boys choir, along with a lot of miscellaneous mp3s.
so yeah. did i mention i’m ready to go home for the holidays? yeah.
work is frustrating. i’ll leave it at that.
james is in town today and tomorrow, but is staying all the way up in the woodlands and i don’t know if i’m going to have time to see him. the best time for me would be tonight, but he said something about having a work dinner tonight. it’s stuff like this that reminds me how freaking big houston is. i’m in houston, james is in houston…but it would take me at least an hour to get to him.
