The Holidays are HERE!!!

So I'm sitting here in my little corner desk hacking away at work that needs to be done. I've got a short sale I'm processing for a personal friend, another project regarding short sales that will be getting announced hopefully in December by a freind of mine that I was fortunate enough to be a part of, and I've got a new site I'm working on that will be a lot of fun for me and the veiwers of the site(more on that later)

So it's mail time and I'm outside enjoying the great Arizona weather and the mail lady stops by to drop off the mail, thankfully no bills today :)

What I did get(or rather the wifey) was 4 different mail order catalogs and they are all hopped up on cool graphics and of course 'Must Buy Now' type of deals. I thought to myself, "gotta love the holidays" All of a sudden I was like, "I do love the holidays!!" 

The 'holidays' started for me this past weekend. My father who still insist on driving truck cross country for JB Hunt was in town for some time off. We knew he wasn't going to be back for Thanksgiving so we had a pre-thanksgiving dinner with all the fixins minus the turkey, we had honey baked ham instead. It was great! The whole family all together doing the family thing just because we could was a great thing. Of course, we all stuffed ourselves to where we were physically uncomfortable and taking a nap was the only solution. Even today as I write this, I'm just finishing a ham sandwhich from leftovers, ya know what I'm talking about!! the 2nd best part of thanksgiving is all the leftovers for the next week.

My sister got engaged to a great guy who is currently serving in the Navy while he was in town for a few days leave. So that was cool! My little sister is all grown up now :( I feel so old.

Everything is everything in my little world. 

So we have the rest of this month and next month until we hit 2010, crazy isn't it? I remember back in '99 when they said the world was going to crash because the banks didn't have the ability to do 2000 and they thought everyones money was going to dissapear LOL!!! We still made it!

My experience has been that there are not a lot of sales happening for the last two months of the year so hopefully I get at least one more short flipped before christmas because I'm liable to do something crazy like blow the whole check on christmas presents :) Last year, we had to dedicate the entire family room to christmans and take out all the furniture because the tree and the mounds of presents were literally overflowing out of the room itself. It took us 2 full hours to open all the presents and get to the actual tree. Lets see if I can outdo myself this year :)

I'm excited about getting to watch all the same 'ol christmas movies, the same ones I grew up on like charlie brown, miracle on 34th street etc... For some reason you can only watch these movies at this time of year and they never get old even though we just watched them last year! I can't wait! 

So there it is! I'm excited about another holiday season! I'm excited that I have thanks to give, presents to wrap and a loving family to share it with! 

What does the holidays mean for you? what do you have planned? What most are you excited about this holiday season? Whats got your holiday spirit sparked?