just like the ones i used to know

I flew into New York at about 10pm last night. It wasn’t as busy as I thought, the only nerveracking part was making the trek across Newark Airport and having to go back through security while my connecting flight was boarding. All in all though, painless.

There’s been a bit of snow on two separate occasions since Thanksgiving, so everything is still covered. I’ll be upstate for awhile, but will hopefully hook up with friends for New Years Eve (depending on who will be around). I also got a recent email from some other high school friends who have been looking for me for years. Thank God for classmates.com I guess? I’ll be seeing them as well.

I slept in today for the first time in awhile. As my sister had shoulder surgery, she and my mother were not able to get a Christmas tree until I got here. We went this morning and picked through what was left in the lots. Trees are cheaper here to begin with (since they’re grown right down the street), but we wound up with a straight up Charlie Brown, $19.99, last minute special.

We looked around and talked about going elsewhere, but honestly we both felt bad driving away and leaving this poor thing. It’s not too bad, a bit bare at some points. On one side though, it’s completely flat and missing some branches. We got home and told all this to my sister, and she said, “Yeah but that’s what the wall is for.”