First and foremost, I am in love with Fill-it-in puzzles.  They're the kind where it's like a crossword puzzle, except there are no numbers, and they give you all of the answers organized by number of letters, and you have to fill it in the right way.  That may not make sense, so here is a better explanation.

We went Christmas shopping today, and bought a bunch of presents for our family and friends.  Henry got some Pokemon action figures, and Miranda got a fuzzy poster to color.  Those are the only presents we got that I can say, because everyone else can read and could possibly find me on the internet, thus defeating the purpose of giving a gift in wrapping paper on Christmas, instead of saying "Yo, I got you this and here it is in my hand and now it's yours."  Shane is incredibly detail-oriented when it comes to wrapping presents.  He likes to cut the wrapping paper with a butcher knife so it's perfect, and he makes all his folds perfect and uses tape to make sure everything is even and flat.  It's kind of funny, in comparison to me, who likes to get the wrapping part over and done with so I can fuck around with ribbon.  I made a few bows.  I was proud.

Shane also got water from the Artesian well downtown.  He likes it better than tap water.  I do too.

We had live shotgun shells/game load in our house for a while.  Apparently it got put in one of Shane's moving boxes by accident.  It scared the shit out of me.  I kept worrying that if I touched it the wrong way it would fire and shoot off my leg or something.  That probably doesn't happen though.

We've been listening to all our music on the Zune software on random lately, mostly because Shane wants to get his "plays" number up a lot on his Zune card.  It's nice, because we're listening to all the music we have, instead of just the stuff we think we prefer.  We have over 20 gigs of music, and it's kind of funny when we listen to something we haven't heard for a while, because we're surprised we own it.  Not only that, but I'm kind of stingy about music.  Once I like something, it doesn't matter what genre it is, I love it.  But unless the song catches my ear at the beginning, I tend not to give it a chance, unless I force myself to listen to the song the whole way through.  I guess that's my personality though, I'm impatient and don't like to wait for gratification.  Since we're letting it go randomly, I'm finding myself liking a lot more than I would have had I just gone through all our music and listened to the first seven seconds.

I wonder if my ears/brain deciding whether or not I like music is kind of like a little senate meeting.  A hundred little guys sit in my head, listen for five seconds, and then vote.  Some say "Yea!" and some say "Nay!" and then they send in their majority to my brain, which responds by deciding to continue the song or press next.  This happens every five seconds until the song is done.