five on friday - holiday thoughts

Holiday Thoughts

Here we are again, in the midst of another holiday season. 

While I enjoy looking at everyone’s holiday trees and decorations and crafts (really, I do), I’ve done absolutely nothing. 

My calendar tells me it’s still November - okay – so it’s the last day of November - yikes - I’m feeling behind. All you early birds are stressing me out! 

Just kidding – (kind of) 

Okay – so maybe it’s not entirely true that I’ve done absolutely nothing. 

I organized my holiday playlist. 

If there’s one thing that helps me de-stress during my daily commute, 

it’s belting out “O Holy Night” in my car as though I’m Mariah Carey. 

When I was a kid, my parents hid the Sears Wish Book until December 1. 

See – I’m not really behind, right? 

Remember the Sears Wish Book? 

Oh how we loved that catalog. 

We fought over it, spent hours gazing at toys, and circled nearly everything in it. 

Can you imagine kids today getting excited over the Sears Wish Book? 

Times, they sure have changed…

I was very excited the other morning, when I saw several trees hauled into the quad outside my office. 

Last night was the tree lighting – complete with an a capella chorus. 

Seriously, I wish I could ease my data analysis frustrations with the sounds of Christmas carols floating through my office window every day. 

These pictures were taken from my office window - with my point-and-shoot - in the dark. 

I had fun playing with photoshop paint effects to change my blurry photos into a blurry paintings. 

This weekend I vow to get started on my holiday preparations. 

Maybe some candles in the windows – a wreath on the door…. 

How about you? Have you started your holiday decorating? Shopping?

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walking off the pie

Friday afternoon, feeling somewhat blobby from all that stuffing and pie

(or was it from stuffing myself with pie?),

we headed outside for a walk.

I've been wanting to go hiking,

but it's hunting season in Vermont and I keep forgetting to buy orange vests -

not that an orange vest would offer any protection from stray bullets...

We stuck to the roads.

Ice is already starting to form on this pond -

Oh yeah, we'll be skating soon.

Well, I might not - I stand a better chance of staying alive by wearing an orange vest in the woods -
during hunting season...

A little farther down the street, the people in this neigborhood share access to the pond.

I think I'd like to borrow one of those canoes.

Hmmm, I wonder if I need an orange vest out on the pond.

And then, completely unrelated to watery sporting activites -

I really like this stone fence and picket gate.

I'm wondering if it will have a Christmas wreath soon.

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