Posts Tagged: christmas

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Dec 08

It is all Turkey

I am making it back to school after a week off for thanksgiving. I hope everyone else had a wonderful thanksgiving.

It is hard for me to get back into the swing of things, even though it was only a week, but I will be there in no time at all. I suppose I should get used to not going to school, I graduate in only 19 days. I am already looking into hobbies.

WordPress Junkie has been changed due to the community. I have renamed it wpjunkie. Sure it isn’t as explainatory, but then again, I simply missed the issue on using the name wordpress in the URL. It isn’t appreciated by the community, and I am not going to piss them off because they have given so much to me. (Kids, a note, this is synonomous with not biting the hand that feeds you)

So, with that, I again hope everyone had a great thanksgiving. I wish you all a great christmas, chanukah, kwanzaa, new year, and any pagen rituals I may have missed.

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Dec 01

An Enjoyable Christmas

This year was so different from all of the other years of Christmas. No family came into town, in fact, some of the family left to go out of town. It was just the 4 of us this year. No hectic schedules, no crowded rooms, peace and quiet. Just the way I like it on Christmas. We had a very small Christmas this year, not too many gifts, but it was much better this way. I did most of my shopping this year on the Internet, something I should have started years ago. It takes the pressure off of finding that perfect gift.

I went to wish a merry Christmas. I was glad I did. I haven’t talked to her in ages, and it made my day much better. I realized this is probably the last Christmas I will be living in Montgomery. I will of course come down to visit every Christmas, but who knows if my family is going to be living in Montgomery next year. For all I know, my dad will take that job at Duke. That would be something. I would be very happy for him and my mom if they did. But I will stay in Birmingham.

I hope everybody had a merry Christmas, and I hope everybody has a happy new year.

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Dec 01

pholower.com?

I have been in a rather good mood lately. I have most of my friends that are on LJ a paid account. I have realized that in many cases this is the primary way I keep up with them.
I still need to do some work on my webpage before I let it go public, and I have been fiddling around with the idea of buy a domain name. pholower.com how does that sound? If any of you know of a good domain service or hosting service I should go through please let me know. I am seriously thinking about doing this so that I can post my writing and photography on there rather than just on my journal.
I bought my sister a CD player for her car today. I know she must feel horrible about not having anything in her car to listen to after the little incident a week ago.
I hope all of you have a merry Christmas and a happy new year. (Oh, and if any of you have anything planned for the New Year, please let me know. I have nothing to do that night and would love a party, or at least some company)

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Nov 01

Downward Spiral

When working on a car one has ample time to think. Thinking has never been a good thing for me, as it tends to make me depressed. This was especially true today. I feel like it would be better if I couldn’t think, or at least not have the mentality to let my mind wonder into so many different places.
While I was cleaning the head block manifold of my car today, my mind started to wonder. I started to shave the small bits and pieces of the gasket off of the cylinder head and I got to thinking about Lynne. Normally this is all right. I think about what she has been up to, and I call her that night to see how she has been, we can talk for hours about nothing. But for some reason today was different. Very different.
You see, normally around this time of year, she comes into town for a few days and we get to spend an entire day together, Christmas shopping, going out to eat, catching up on the times. This year, however, she was too busy, so she came in to town for Thanksgiving, and left the same day. It made me think if I was losing her as a friend. I still consider her to be the one that got away. If only she understood the way I feel about her, if only she wasn’t so busy. If only I would have said something earlier. Now it is too late. Like sand, I tried to hold her too tightly and she slipped through my fingers, if only I would have been gentle with her.
After thinking about her I started to think about all of the other girls I have at one time loved. Laura came into my mind. She knew how I felt, but circumstances separated us. I don’t know if she feels the same way about me anymore, but I am sure she has moved on. I still see her now and again, and I want so badly to go up to her and just have a casual conversation, but I never manage to get up enough confidence to do so.
Once I thought about the people in my life who I have been separated from I got to thinking about the friends in my life now, and how I feel like I am losing them as well. I haven’t talked to Josh in a long time, and it seems as if I never talk to Joseph anymore. I have talked to Michelle lately, and I am glad I did. I still like Michelle but at the moment she wants nothing to do with relationships of any kind.
I need someone to talk to tonight. I feel like I have locked myself into a small dark room inside of my head. If I keep this up, a downward spiral is inevitable.