*I get to see Ollie-pie in two weeks. Two weeks! So, I’ve been thinking about ways I could make the next two weeks go faster. Ideas:
a) Go to sleep every evening right after work and sleep through ’til morning, practically cutting my awake time in half. (Requires Nyquil.)
b) Take a two-week vacation…because vacations always go way too fast. (Requires plane tickets and a donation of PTO from my employer.)
c) Invent, build and perfect some kind of time-altering machine. (Requires…every speck of scientific intelligence I currently possess + a lot, lot, lot more.)
I’m not really sure any of these ideas will work. But you never know ’til you try, right?

*I may or may not be taking a break from blogging for the rest of this month. I feel like my wheels are spinning trying to keep up with everything during this busy Christmas season (and, well, I do have that time-altering machine to build), so I’ve decided to let a couple things go until after Christmas. Blogging is now temporarily on the “only if I have time” list. But…I am planning a bit of a blog makeover to be unveiled around New Year’s. Fun fun!

*YouTube has totally rocked my week! First, if you’re an aspiring writer trying to do things the right way (you know, like spending time learning the craft and not mass-emailing a bunch of agents), then this video is the funniest thing since I don’t even know when. (On the other hand, if you’re an agent or editor or publisher or successful writer, perhaps it makes you cringe.)

Second, Coldplay has once again proven to be the musical equivalent of flannel sheets and chocolate chip cookies and bonfires and every single Cary Grant movie and the first snowfall and, well, you get the idea, right? Their new Christmas song makes me smile like I’ve just been awarded a lifetime supply of Diet Coke with Lime.

Lastly, I will never, ever, ever, get tired of It’s a Wonderful Life. And I will never, ever get tired of Jimmy Stewart promising to lasso the moon for Donna Reed…and saying, “This is a very interesting situation.”