Slow down

I can't believe Christmas is only a few days away! I'm overwhelmed by how fast time is going by.

I'm already semi-depressed and even whiny that the Christmas holiday and season is 'almost coming to an end.' What else will I have to look forward to? I just wish I could press pause and take a breather.

Ok, enough with the emo kid attitude. I do have to say, that I'm very much enjoying my Christmas music stations on Pandora, and I listen to them even single moment that I am able to, throughout the day. I have very sparse and humble Christmas decorations, yet I love them and I'm enjoying them as well. In fact, I'll probably keep them up for too long.

So my friends and family, enjoy this season before it's goneeeee! {In just a few days!}

Rain day

Remember when you would listen to the radio, and wait to hear that school was cancelled, or impatiently wait at school for them to give the "ok" to release school early for a "Snow Day?" Well, let's be honest, that didn't happen that often in my hometown.

Anyway, I had one of those days today: the grown up, central AZ version.

It has been raining a lot the last 24 hours or so. Needless to say, people generally don't like to swim when it's cold and rainy outside, so I was sent home early today from work after being there for 4 hours and not one person came out to the pool.

I'm about about 5 seconds away from celebrating by snuggling up in bed and falling asleep to Christmas music.

Christmas music.

Today marks the first official day that I'm listening to Christmas music. I'm starting it off with some 'Nsync Christmas (the pandora station). What?

{Danielle, I wasn't kidding...}

December 1st.

It's already December. Can you believe it?! I can't. I still feel like we just moved to Phoenix, but now it's already been almost a year.

I feel as though Mother Nature of Phoenix also realized it was December 1st. Today is the first day that it was actually cold, and by cold I mean the highs in the low 60s, and the lows in the 40s. Brrr! Work today was a bit chilly. The cold weather all of a sudden just happened, because literally just yesterday it was in the high 70s. I'm kind of excited though, because now it can finally start to feel like winter.

I still can't believe it is so close to Christmas- it still feels like it is too early for Christmas music. I think I'll start easing into it though, because otherwise I'll be sad if I don't listen to enough of it, before it's too late.

Pandora

I know I've blogged about Pandora in the past, I would like to blog about her (yes, her.) again.

Amongst all the chaos of these last couple of weeks and not feeling a lot of peace and calmness at this point, I've learned that my more "worldly" approach is to turn to my good friend Pandora.

For the last 5 years, it has been very difficult to get into the Christmas Spirit, until finals are over, which usually end within days of Christmas, then I feel cheated of the Christmas experience.

So, to calm my troubled heart during this chaotic time, I rely on Pandora in supplying me with delightful Christmas music. I'm a big time Christmas music snob, so the "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" feature is really great for me.

Tis the season.