Just hear those sleigh bells jingling.

It's not even december yet and I'm already singing Christmas songs! Today we put up the Christmas tree (after running to the storage place to grab our tree and find a lovely family of decaying birds waiting for us) and it completely got me in the mood for the season. I love Christmas time! Everything about it is great; I love spending time with my family, the movies are always great, it's cold outside, the fireplace is always on fire, and holiday jazz is just a great thing to listen to! I'm so excited for Christmas this year!

Speaking of holidays, Thanksgiving was very nice this year. We had round one with my Uncle John and my cousins in Stockton on Thanksgiving Day, and we had round two at my house with my grandparents today. It was really fantastic, and the food for both days was good, although I really appreciated the traditional food today. It was so nice to spend time with my family though.

I also have had a pretty good amount of time to spend with my friends this past week. It's been so nice being able to see all of my friends that I miss so much, and it's even better to know that I'll get to see them fairly soon during Christmas break, which will be about a month for most people. Anyway, I'm excited!

Now, this week, I basically just have a bunch of projects to do/turn in. It's going to be hectic, but if I can make it through the next month of work, including finals, then I'll have some much needed rest to look forward to.

The Perfect Dorm

I think I've mentioned before that I love having those random dreams that I can remember really vividly, because then I can step back and take a look at them, just for the joy of it.

Well last night I had one of those dreams, and because of it, I've dreamt up my fantasy dorm. In fact, all I remember about the dream was walking into a building, realizing that it was the dorm I was going to be staying in, and exploring every nook and cranny in shear delight.

Ok, so the dorm was like this:

It was composed entirely of long, wide hallways with doors leading into dorm rooms halfway down the length of each hallway, but only on the right side. There were also stairs lining the walls. So imagine, you walk in the door, and at ground level, there's a dorm to the right, with a lounge area to the left, with tables, chairs, and couches. Then at the end of the hall is a staircase, turning twice. After the first turn and before the second, there are two more dorms. After the second turn of the stairs, a long staircase goes along the wall to the next level, and then rinse and repeat.

Ok so maybe I didn't describe the layout all that well, but this is for me to remember anyway, so what do you care? Now to the coolest parts.

The dorm rooms were like the mirrors; long, thin rooms that could house 3 or 4 people, and despite how long the rooms were, they didn't have very many windows, and those that were present were covered by light green curtains. And that brings me to my next point. The school must have been Hogwarts or something, because the dorm had it's own color, as if it was a house common room. The place was covered in light green curtains, tabards, cloths, trimmings, and hangings everywhere you looked, with many of these items having dark green shamrocks on them. These complimented the dark brown hardwood and dim lights very nicely.

Now that I think back on it, this dorm was completely strange, but I personally would have seen it as the coolest thing ever. I have to find that college.

I'm thankful for...

FRIENDS!! Haha, well I am, of course, but I'm mostly just excited that I get to see most of them soon! It's finally that Thanksgiving Break kind of time and a bunch of my friends are going to be periodically coming back to Tracy so that we all can be thankful. I got to see two of my friends today! One I don't know all that well, and one who I know very well (or at least I think I do) and have been missing greatly for the past few months. It was really nice to get to spend time with both of them and talk about Harry Potter.

Speaking of which, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I was AMAZING, to say the least, and I am so excited to see the next one! Yes, it's about 6 months away and yes, I'm impatient, but it's going to be so epic!

I was really glad that I got to see the movie with my sister. Anna and I joke around all the time and play video games together and such, but there's never really been anything that we both absolutely loved before. But ever since we both got hooked on Harry Potter, that has changed, and it's been really great to have something that we can both just ramble on and on about. Although it would help much more if she actually read the books so we could talk even more about it. Find time to read the books, Anna! I know school has you busy, but Harry Potter is more important than a measly middle school education!

Just kidding. Or am I?

Finally, I'm very excited to visit my uncle and cousins this coming up thursday! We live in Tracy, they live in Sacramento; that's about an hour away and yet we see them once a year, maybe. Sometimes we see them even less than that. I want to say the last time we saw each other was for christmas two years ago but I'm not sure. Anyway, I'm really excited to see them!

This week is going to be a good one, I can feel it.

Jefferson Aero Plane

'Cause you confuse me more than anyone

an adjustment has begun

to let me feel the desperate need to leave what we undid undone

And maybe you could sympathize

with the bags under my eyes

and we'll see the signs are saying that we have used up all our tries

to be a better person

to be a better friend

to be a better son

He tries to be a better someone

that understands the difference

and that he can't show all the people all the things that really mean as much as he could (feel)

feels like I don't remember

ever being this tired (before)

before now my eyes were closed to

all of the beauty in this world

Alright, so I haven't updated this thing for a while, and I really don't have much to update, so i decided to just type up some lyrics for a song that has really been on my mind lately. I'm not sure why they've been on my mind, because these lyrics are kind of sad, but I've been anything but sad lately. I'm really not sure why, but for some reason these lyrics have been repeating in my mind over and over.

Who knows, right? But I love this part of the song. It was one of Relient K's weirdest and best songs, in my opinion.

On another note, I saw one of my friends on facebook writing to another friend of mine, and after finishing his letter, proceeded to say "I would say I love you, but that's cliche, so..."

The rest of the sentence doesn't matter, but what caught my eye was him stating the cliche. When I saw what he said, I thought that someone must be in a pretty sad state to say that three of the most meaningful, albeit overly used, words were "cliche". Hmm, well, I hope something interesting happens for me to post about soon!

And sometimes the place I'm at, is at a loss for words

Well today was an interesting day to say the least. Not really exciting or even busy, but interesting. I've had a hard time posting lately, as you might be able to tell from the enormous gap in between posts. Nothing has really happened that I want to post here. So I guess I'll just reflect, as usual.

I'm really excited for thanksgiving! I miss my friends that I don't get to see on any basis at all really, and I know that if we get together this upcoming break, I'm going to be so excited to see all of them! Video chatting with people really hasn't gone too far; granted, I barely sign on to Skype, but maybe that's because no one was ever signed on when I was. Another great thing about thanksgiving will be being able to see my uncle and cousins that I haven't seen in, what, 2 years almost? And they live in Sac town. I never really got that. They live an hour away, yet I seem them once every year and a half or so. Longer this time around. But I'll be so glad to see them too!

I guess I been going through socializing withdrawals recently. My summer, actually most of last year, was so packed with spending time with friends at parties and karaoke nights that now that most of them are gone and I work, I barely socialize. It's strange. But I don't think it was just moving away and work that has stopped me from hanging out with friends as much. It seems as though the definition of a party has changed as of late. Maybe the definition didn't change at all, but merely the amount of secrecy that was applied to those parties. Either way, the "fun enhancer" is now flowing freely, and that's kept me away.

I can't say I don't miss the times when we all just ate food, had loud, cheerful conversations, and played minute-to-win-it games for hours and hours and not think twice about it.

Anyway, enough looking at the past. It was great, but now it's time to look forward. Tomorrow I plan to go in with one of my friends to talk to a counselor concerning the classes we need to take in order to get into the school we are interested in. Hopefully all goes well, and I find out the I don't need to take any advanced math classes. That would put a damper on my day!

Hah! See how long a post can get just by reflection? I put no thought into this post at all, and it seems adequate to me. Score one for ze Pryzstowski, hmm?

I was sitting on the roof of my house.

I've really not had much to update lately, but I will say this:

I learned at bible study a few days ago the the whole Bible can basically be summed up in Genesis 5, which is a chapter in the first book of the Bible that names the descendants from Adam, the first man, to Noah. The chapter is dedicated to just this, and seem like it really doesn't serve any purpose besides historical reasons. But it just so happens to be very important indeed. Names have always had meaning, but it was different back in that time, because in those days, your name wasn't just what people called you, it's meaning was what you were supposed to live by, and if the way you lived changed, your name changed. It was who you are.

Going back to Genesis 5, if you take the meaning of every name mentioned in order from Adam to Noah, you will find that it spells out a sentence, which is somewhere along the line of "Man/Appointed/Mortal/Sorrow/The Blessed God/Shall come down/Teaching/His death shall bring/the despairing/rest and or comfort. Each "/" is a break between the meaning of names, meaning that Adam = Man and Noah = Rest, or comfort.

I think this is really interesting, and even though it may seem a little Da Vinci code-ish, I totally believe it's real. Cool, huh?