A very merry Un-Christmas

This has been a very odd holiday season for me. It started with Thanksgiving, it was the first thanksgiving I didn't spend with my family, although I did spend it with friends, so it turned out pretty well. Christmas was a much different ordeal. I know Christmas is supposed to be spent with friends and family, at least that's what all of the Christmas specials tell me, but this Christmas I spent alone in my apartment, the first Christmas in 22 years that I didn't spend with my family. I suppose I did have friends in a way, I did spend it with my friends from Battlestar Galactica, the 4400, and Star Trek the animated series. Now I know you could argue that those aren't real friends seeing as they are all fictional characters, and they don't actually know me at all, but it was the closest thing I had, so I spent it with them. I did have a short conversation with my mom, my dad, a longer conversation with Galen, and phone message from Jon, but that was the extent of any contact with real people. Also, Christmas is supposed to be about getting and giving gifts. While I did give a few gifts (I sent a package to Ellery and his family, and I have purchased and wrapped presents for Matt, Jon, and Galen) I did not actually have anything to open come Christmas morning. Now, before you think me a scrooge, I did try to ignite the Christmas spirit by watching the Polar Express Christmas Eve, in my opinion the greatest Christmas movie out there, but alas even that was not enough to put me in any kind of Christmas spirit.

Although, if there had to be a year to miss the holidays with my family this would probably have been it, since everything was different anyways with my dad having left and all, it wouldn't have been a normal Thanksgiving or Christmas anyways. Thus, I hung out in my apartment, as if it was any other day off, although it was an odd day off since all the stores were closed, and thus there really wasn't anywhere to go.

On another topic, I have decided a little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. For example, I couple of months ago I read in the New York Times that red wine can essentially lessen the damage caused by a high-fat diet, significantly reducing all of the dangers that come with such a diet. Now, a rational person would probably say that you should try to enjoy a low-fat diet and drink red wine and you would be pretty healthy. I on the other hand conclude that I can sit around eating a tub of lard, and so long as I am drinking red wine with it, I will probably live to be 150. Same thing with green tea. It is supposed to have a lot of anti-oxidants, which fight cancer, so from this little amount of information I conclude that so long that I have drunk some green tea and can go out and smoke 5 packs of cigarettes, since I have the green tea to protect me, especially if I have some more green tea after words. Now and I know that cigarettes can cause other problems too, but I'm not worried about that since I have my green tea and my red wine, with those two drinks I'm pretty sure I can do anything I want and still live practically forever.

As I often do, to bring an end to this post, I will leave you with a quote, not because I think it is a particularly good way to end a post, or because I think anyone will find it interesting, but because at least it is an end. "Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see." Taken from the Polar Express.