Christmas

I went home this weekend and spent my one day (plus the weekend) of Fall Break with my family. It was nice, but it really made me wish Thanksgiving Break were here, and then Christmas Break. Today, I can't wait for Christmas. I can't wait to buy a small Christmas Tree for my dorm room, and some egg nog, and to be able to enjoy a small taste of the Christmas spirit before I get home and experience the real thing. The nativity scene, the lawn ornaments, the big Christmas tree, the little light-up house collection my dad has, the train, all the Christmas movies on T.V., the food - everything. I will have to buy a rug though to go under the tree in my dorm room, because freshman year when I had a ground tree, it was difficult getting all the little green pieces of plastic off of the floor. Sophomore year I just used a tiny tree on top of the refrigerator, because I had a different roommate (whom I did not know pre-college, like I had known my roommate freshman year) and our room setup didn't allow for a larger one. The tree sophomore year was one of those little fiber-optic spinning trees, and it was fun, but the damn thing always leaned to one side, and eventually started falling off of the fridge daily. And that meant picking it up, spending 5 minutes repositioning it, picking up all the little spongebob and coca cola ornaments I'd bought for it, sometimes replacing the light bulb in the base, etc. Not this year - this year, I've got a single, and I'm gonna get a rug and like a 4-5 foot tree that doesn't spin or lean! And lots of egg nog.