More brain droppings

The winner of my Favorite Things is. . .

Laura Moffitt!

Yay! Email me your address and I'll get those in the mail to you Tuesday.

That post was one of the more fun ones I've done for me personally because I got to discover how many things I have in common with many of my blog readers that I didn't know about before. For many of the books and TV shows you picked especially, I wanted to reach out and give many of you a high five and be like, "Me, too!"

Laura is a great example. She said she really liked The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and I absolutely adored that book. Ditto the people who said "30 Rock" or "Firefly" and about a dozen other favorites you mentioned that I wanted to cheer for, too.

In other random news, I saw The Blind Side this weekend and definitely recommend it. VERY worth it.

Also, I just realized how close we are to my Merry Birthiversary. Just to recap:

Anniversary: December 22
Birthday: December 24
Christmas: December 25

It's a busy week.

I'm having a great Christmas so far and I'm doing just about every Christmas thing I can think of: cookie exchanges, drive through live nativity reenactments, a boat parade in the nearby harbor, secret Santa  projects, Christmas music. Ahhhhh, fun stuff! I love Christmas!

Way more people read my blog than I realized. I'm glad I'm not in the habit of saying snarky things about them in writing. Humble pie is nasty. I now officially applaud myself for being a nice person. (Um, okay, it may be common sense that saved me and not niceness, but whatever. I'm still applauding.) Not that I ever have much bad to say about people but you know how sometimes you do an eye roll over the antics of a friend or family member? I'm glad I've never committed the written equivalent. Because frankly, that's dumb.

My husband sneezes very loudly. That is neither snark nor a criticism. Simply something I happened to notice right this second because he just did it. In fairness, I should disclose that I am not perfect, either. While I'm not a loud sneezer, I do sneeze multiple times. At least three times every time I sneeze. So it works out.

I haven't bought a single thing at the mall for Christmas this year. I didn't plan it that way. It just so happened that everything I needed was pretty much online.

The most irreverent person in our Sunday School class is the teacher's wife. (Me.) Because I think I'm funny. It's a bad habit.

Two-year-olds are extremely funny. And repetitive. Okay, mostly repetitive. But the funny stuff is pretty funny.

I like my Christmas decorations. Even though they include my son's paper bag turkey dressed in camo with an artillery belt. It kind of adds a little something now that I'm used to it.

I think it's funny how the posts that I go, "Huh. I have nothing to say. I'll spit out a couple of random things," end up being the longest ones I do.

Merry Christmas!