Yes, I'm Still Alive

The first fifteen minutes of Gladiator, an entire recent conversation with (the glorious and beautiful) Olivia Stout, and three school assignments in as many days have all been completely wiped from my memory.

(Well, to be fair, the memory-wipage of the school assignments wasn't complete so much as it was utter-until-my-professors-brought-it-up. And boy did that damage my calm.)

The other week, I was sitting next to my friend in the computer lab. She sneezed, and I didn't say "Bless you." A few minutes later, I sneezed and she didn't say "Bless you" (although the girl behind me did). I felt a lot less guilty and a pleasant sense of balance was restored to our friendship.

That's basically the story of my life this semester.

Thank God He's controlling my life; what said life would look like if it were solely up to me inspires the utmost of horror.

Archives Advent Extravaganza Day THE END--IT'S CHRISTMAS, WHY ARE YOU ON A LAME BLOG RIGHT NOW?!

HEAVENS TO BETSY GUYS IT'S CHRISTMAS, GUYS, IT'S CHRISTMAS HERE'S YOUR PRESENTS.

This is probably the most epic blog post I've ever read. Definitely the most epic blog post I've read on SCL.


My favorite scene from a Christmas movie.


Possibly my favorite Sufjan song, "Get Behind Me, Santa!"


Fantasia forever!


Our Christmas Eve tradition is to watch this movie.

Another tradition is to read this book. My daddy always cries; I love him.


"Christmas Time" by Phil Wickham (y'all need to go on his website right now and buy this album).

Got this off of Deviantart. Because I like interesting art.


More Sufjan: "The Friendly Beasts" featuring Shara Worden!


Julian Smith--he made this for you.






Geeze, I hope I didn't break the internet with all the stuff I have in this post...

Merry Christmas!

Archives Advent Extravaganza Day 23-24--Christmas Eve!

We always used to called December 23rd "Christmas Adam." We were really quite cool.

An example of why Psych is made of awesome:



I never believed in Santa, but it's never almost been Christmas until I watched this video:



T-1! Happy Christmas Eve!

Archives Advent Extravaganza Day 22--I'm Almost There

More from Stuff Christians Like. I don't actually know if this guy has a short list of "Stuff Christians Like," but if he did he would have to put his own website on it I think.

T-3.

[Has anyone besides me noticed that my countdown is totally askew?]

Archives Advent Extravaganza Day 21--Y'all Better Still Be Snow-Dancing

If you don't know this song, your Christmas is less complete than it should be:




T-3.

Archives Advent Extravaganza Days 19-20--I Have Both "Christmas Shoes" Movies

Thanks to David Goodness. Yessss.

I missed another day--I blame my tendency to disappear off the face of the planet for the first week of any break. But hey, I'm on break!

More craftiness for you--Sarah made a really nifty advent calendar of her own based upon this thing. I think it's pretty neat.

Why does this shirt make me laugh? I don't know, but it does. So I made it Day 20.

T-4.

Archives Advent Extravaganza Day 18--I Normally Don't Do This

This isn't a crafty blog. I'm not one of those cool people who stumble across awesome obscure artsy DYI designs to make your home/room/office space/car look amazing and unique and totally hipster and then dedicates a blogpost to sharing it with the world. I'm one of those people who thinks, "You know what? Twine smells like sneezes" and then decides the internet needs to know about it and then dedicates a blogpost to sharing it with the world. You know. That sort of thing.

But this gift idea is pretty dang cool, especially if you're like me and feel woefully inadequate whenever you give giftcards as presents even if it will genuinely bless the receiver.

This is probably the only time I'm gonna do this...

[So if you want more of it, go to my sister-in-law's blog because you'll get great recipe's and interior design ideas interspersed with BABIES. Honestly, what more could you ask for? Tell me.]