I've had a pretty easy day today, even after having to head to work at 6am. I went to go take a nap last night around 7pm, only to fall asleep for the night and wake up at 5am to my alarm. I was worried about working so early, just because we were supposed to get hit hard over night and into the morning with snow.. but luckily it wasn't as bad as they were calling, so I managed to drive to work without crashing along the way. I was only scheduled for four hours, but since the weather wasn't bad I didn't really care. After coming back and shoveling the snow, it was nice to be able to relax. I even got to watch Home Alone 3 for the first time since I was a kid. It was on ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas special. I forgot how much I loved that movie, and oddly enough it's probably my favorite Home Alone movie. I was really surprised when I realized Scarlett Johansson was in it. She played the older sister of the main kid, Alex. Who knew!?
After watching the movie, I obviously wanted nothing more than to play a good game of Monopoly! I've been pretty much addicted to Monopoly lately, and it's getting kind of bad. Ever since I played one time over the semester at New Paltz, it's like I crave playing. Ever since I realized I could play online on pogo.. I've been sold. It's pretty much an addiction, and pogo gives me my fix. But hey.. it's a lot cheaper than cigarettes! I feel like it's the economist in me kicking in, especially ever since taking microeconomics. I've always been interested in monopoly, but after becoming a broke college student and learning the fundamentals of economics.. it's fun to have money and monopolize, even if it isn't real.
I feel like I'm growing up in a country that's not looking out for my best interest, or anyones at that. Once gay marriage was denied in New York ( & also watching Home Alone 3 kind of brought this into my head.. for reasons I'm not too sure of myself), I started to think of other instances where I felt deprived of my natural rights as a human being.. and I thought of way too many for apparently living in a "free" country; We're no more free than Iraq is safe. I just don't even understand the opposing stances on a lot of the situations either. Who really has the right to deny two people loving each other & living together, it's simply opinion. I know a few issues come into play in regards to money and how it would work out if two men or women could marry, but if my partner is dying in the hospital and I'm denied rights to see them, someone else in the hospital will die first. I'm just hoping within my lifetime I start to see some changes, because so far I'm not on team America.
I keep opening up my iCal to add events and things I have to do, and just seeing on my calendar that the LOST season 6 premiere is soon makes me so happy. I just watched the whole series over the summer, so going from watching episode after episode to none for a few months was pretty hard. I can't exactly complain though, because I could only imagine how people feel who followed it week by week. I'm gonna drive myself crazy during season 6, or just die from an anxiety attack. I'm trying to not let myself go through and watch the entire series again before going back to school. I should PROBABLY try to be a little productive and enjoy my month off, not in front of my computer screen. Then again, I end up watching Friends so often, that watching the entire LOST series again would be a piece of cake. Friends & LOST, the two loves of my life Y.
I've been in a lot more of a holiday spirit this year compared to most. I think a lot of it has to do with being able to enjoy free time before Christmas. Last year I was up at New Paltz until a few days before Christmas, so studying for finals so close to the holidays really takes your mind off it. I've recently become obsessed with David Archuleta, so once I saw he made a Christmas album, I got it right away. Ever since then, I've been listening to it everywhere I go, no matter what I'm doing. I really recommend it, he has such an incredible voice and does a good job covering traditional Christmas music. I'd have to say my favorite though is "Melodies of Christmas," which I'm pretty sure is an original, and amazing to say the least. His albums called Christmas from the Heart, and if you click that link, it'll bring you to amazon to sample his songs.. really good.
Well I guess I'll wrap up, since I've had no consistency to this post anyway, just felt like blogging. Now I'm off to hang out with Lauren. Too bad I have work again at 6am, although working in the morning goes by so much faster.. plus it means dealing with less customers, which is ALWAYS a bright side to any situation.
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