In case you were wondering...

Only 40 days until Christmas! If you don't feel like continuously checking the various websites on the internet that countdown the days, you can also conveniently walk into any Wal-Mart and they have a countdown hanging above the entrance to the store. How comforting. Of course, theirs counts down the "shopping days" until Christmas. How commercially capitalistic.

However, even though I think it's still a little too early to be bringing out the decorations just yet, I do NOT think it's too early to start listening to Christmas music. I've already begun to ease myself into the season by turning on my copy of the Love Actually Soundtrack. "Easing" because they're admittedly not ALL Christmas songs on the CD--the ones that aren't are just mushy-gushy love songs that are getting me all sappy anyway.

I went out for breakfast with Señorita today and we were discussing her early Christmas purchase for her boyfriend. She told me that she went ahead and bought her boyfriend a new wallet.

Oh no.

In my personal experience with men's wallets, either giving them or hearing of other girls giving them, VERY few men have ever really been enthusiastic about receiving a wallet as a gift. The one guy I bought a wallet for, took two years before actually starting to use it. Unless they NEED it, guys will NOT buy themselves a new wallet. Unlike us women who change our wallets/purses depending on the hour of the day, men use their ONE wallet--whatever colour or fashion it comes in--to the DEATH. And if it's a good wallet to begin with, then that could be a very long time from now.

In the end, I think I (and the male servers around us) convinced her to return the wallet.

You're welcome, AJ.

I am being careful...

Oh so lonely. But that's what you get when you receive just what you ask for. Thanks for understanding, but I still miss you.

Next Hallowe'en

You scored as Lara Croft. A thrill-seeking, slightly unscrupulous, tough-as-nails archaeologist, Lara Croft travels the world in search of ancient relics perhaps better left hidden. She packs two Colt .45s and has no fear of jumping off buildings, exploring creepy tombs, or taking on evil meglomaniacs bent on world domination.

Indiana Jones 75% Lara Croft 75% Captain Jack Sparrow 71% The Amazing Spider-Man 71% William Wallace 67% James Bond, Agent 007 63% El Zorro 63% Batman, the Dark Knight 58% Maximus 50% Neo, the "One" 42% The Terminator 38% Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0 created with QuizFarm.com

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It's perfect--not only will I LOOK like her next Hallowe'en, but I have the personality traits of Lara Croft to back that up. I also have the equal amount of personality traits of Indiana Jones in me too, but luckily for me, for the tie-breaking question I chose tight clothing as more important as anything else and ended up being more like Croft than Jones. Can I help it if I like to show off my thwaist?

Please, sir, can I have some more?

It's been a while since the last time I went out with Vin--though the last time was memorable since he hadn't yet discovered that his dog couldn't stomach any kind of fruit; that Frebreze bottle was never too far away--and tonight was well worth the indulgence. Over a hot chocolate and a mound of dessert that neither of us finished, we just chatted and vented and stuffed ourselves with soulfood.

Thinsulate
Skunks
Crushes
Haagen Dazs

The night was good. Thanks, Vin, and have a good convocation tomorrow, even if it IS without the mortar boards. ;)

p.s. why do guys seem to always like to wear white running shoes to mow the lawn in? A mystery for the ages.