Holidays

What I Got for Christmas:
-Clothing
-Necklaces
-A cool new scarf
-A CD of soothing music, arranged by my uncle
-An awesome book about my grandparents
-Money
-A calendar
-Candy
-Post-it notes
-A flashlight
-Bobby pins
-CNN season three

Standing Ovation

Things That Make You Clap (For Applause):
-A good performance
-Actually, just about any performance in America in the world
-A child performing a talent
-Magic tricks that are cool
-Talent shows, even if they are more non-talent shows
-Speeches (unless they're insulting/ ridiculously bad)
-For some people, good movies

Things That Make You Clap (For Negative Energy Expulsion):
-Bad karma
-Anxiety attacks
-Contention
-Bad spirits/ houses built over Indian cemeteries
-People with bad additudes
-Paparazzi

Other Things That Make You Clap:
-Really really funny jokes
-Extreme happiness/ amusement
-Sing alongs/ a good beat
-Insects (most the flying kinds)
-Figuring out the sound of one-handed claps
-Scaring creatures smaller and/or more stupid
-Sometimes an alternative to light switches
-Calling an animal/person to attention/ to you
-In olden times, calling students to school
-In some countries, an alternative to knocking on the door
-Dancing

The End of a Year

My Favorite Christmas Day 2008 Memories :
-CNN Season 1 on DVD (unedited and unexpurgated)
-Three of my nephews playing with a clone trooper helmet
-Reading Kafka and taking a long nap
-Roxy (the German Shepherd) hiding under the dining room table
-holiday txtmsgs
-My brother, who is 31, getting excited about getting a lightsaber for Christmas
-He also gave a bunch of Star Wars themed presents to my nephews, making it a Star Wars themed Christmas overall
-My oldest niece and nephew playing spies together, and labeling my brother and I as "two really really bad guys" who stole 62 pounds of diamonds the size of an adult's heart.

My Christmas Presents:
-clothes
-CNN season one on DVD (actually it was Columbo season 5, which I had to give back to my Mom)
-fondu set
-pink flamingo slippers
-jewelry
-money
-purse
-boots
-coco mix with 2 mugs
-Trivial Pursuit

Other Memorable Moments from Christmas Break So Far:
-Reading The Great Wall of China by Kafka to my nephew Charlie as a bedtime story
-Visiting target about three times in four days
-Dinner with high school friends I haven't seen in four years
-Seeing Valkyrie and Bolt
-Showing Mom that there are bathrooms in Borders
-The lack of cooperation between myself and my hair
-My niece Quinlan's birthday party dinner with the missionaries
-My nephew Braxton whispering that Quinlan was opening my present (psst... this one is yours..!) because I didn't know what I was giving
-txtmsging my brother-in-law in binary

Christmas Break

Things That Are Awesome:
-Drifting
-Dogs
-Cats (to a lesser degree than dogs)
-Academia
-Europe
-Asia
-Books (excluding Twilight, obviously)
-Good Music
-Silence
-Good meals
-Dark chocolate
-Good friends
-Being content
-Good teas (I really like Twining's Orange Tea right now)

Things That Suck:
-Dirt/litter/trash
-Bad meals
-Bad friends (frenemies)
-Bad internet connections
-That overly full feeling after a large meal
-Soda (seriously, it tastes kind of good and that's where the good in soda ends)
-Realizing something you thought is/would be meaningful is actually empty
-Bad grades
-Not being content