Holiday: The Sentimental Morning After
4AM. Christmas has officially come and gone… and it was time off from work well spent. There’s a lot to blog about, mainly the conveyor belt of food that ran continuously for 24 hours straight, but I wanted to touch on a sentimental (yes Jeff, EMO) note first… since that’s what the holidays are really about: the longing to somehow experience some sort of Christmas Magic from oh so long ago.
Cheesy, I know… but it’s the truth. Please allow me to regress in the emo for a few minutes to remind myself that I wish I was playing hide-and-go seek at Mark’s house with Michelle, Melissa, Jamie and Phil. I want to be asked “You’re wearing THAT” by my mother. I want to eat 25 different kinds of stuffing. I wanna get sick off of the Red Lobster seafood platter that’s always there. I like canned cranberry sauce… especially when it’s right out of the can. I want to play the latest Super Nintendo game and veg for 10 hours straight. I wanna listen to Mariah Carey and Stevie B (LOL) on B96. I wanna watch 3-hour blocks of Rurouni Kenshin and listen to everyone bitch about it.
I want Chicago, but I want the life I have now too. Haha… selfish.
That being said, I had a wonderful time with Joce and Joyce… doing absolutely nothing and enjoying every freaking *gorram* minute of it. Even though my life has drastically changed these past 9 (holy crap, nine?) months, I haven’t let go of one simple quote from an old blog post via one of my favorite movies:
Maybe that’s all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.
But the more I think about it… why the hell should we be subjected to try and attain a life that never existed? Shoudn’t we just have all the fun we can? It’s time to stop being so damn whistful. It’s time to make new friends… new romances…
…new memories.
We’re finally growing up (kinda).
Scary, no? 
Xoxo,
~Herschell
P.S. Speaking of new memories… I’ll be prepping for a trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium after work today… so I figure that posts will be scarce for the next few days. Holy crap… 5 days until New Year’s Eve!
BRING IT ON 2007. WE’RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT’S 199… OMG THAT JOKE IS SO OLD. LOL.
