The end of an era

As the decade draws to a close I sit in my lucky chair amidst a giant pile of shit that needs to be out of this house in just a few days.

Peyton Manning has just completed the pass that puts him over 50,000 career yards. Youngest ever by two years, two games faster than Dan Marino, hailed by all as the greatest pure QB ever. The Colts have just retaken the lead and seem to be on the way to 15-0. Go Colts!

Christmas Eve was a furious movie marathon. All sorts of christmasy stuff like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Inglorious Basterds, The Darjeeling Limited, The Goods, and shortly, once the Colts have put paid to the Jets, (500) Days of Summer. The family started texting me at 7am EST, 4am here. First pic, the family dog chewing on my stocking. I was already up, sleeping now from midnight until 3am or so every night. Its so inconvenient.

I finally have my car back and it is one huge weight lifted off me shoulders. I am solidly down between 160 and 165 for the first time since I arrived at college for my freshman year. Seems like I lose it in five pound increments and each new five pounds is a struggle. Sunday is day off from the gym and day off from paying attention to what I eat. Giant pile of fast food later and I about to lapse into a carb coma. Even that will be over in a few weeks when NFL sunday is a thing of the recent past and distant future and I switch to seven days a week at the gym :) I am much happer with myself when I am trying to hurt myself as much as possible.

My parents thought it was hysterical when I told them what I did on Christmas day. "Played video games and watched tv. Same as I would have done if I was home." Dad laughed his ass off. We always open our presents on Christmas Eve. Grandmother comes over with Aunt and Uncle on the day after Christmas. Chhristmas day I always make my whole family watch Home for the Holidays, my favorite holiday movie ever. They also have to watch it every Thanksgiving I make it home too. They watched it in my honor :)

Now the Colts have benched all their high profile guys and are down by 6, about to go down by 13. End of the undefeated season and breaking the record of 23 straight regular season victories. Booooooooooooooooo!

McDonalds vanilla ice cream is still my all-time favorite.

Sherlock Holmes tickets for tomorrow night, should be a fun time. First time I get to really see a friend of mine since New York and not just watch her perform. Catching up should be eye opening as I suspect her music career has proceeded with leaps and bounds since we first met. Yesterday was her birthday so it's my treat. Always fun to spend time with friends at their birthday time. I always work on mine, was never a big fan of celebrating, but I'll celebrate friends' birthdays for days at a time. In Boston we used to do birthday weeks :)

I'll be so happy when December's over :)

Bring on January!