'Tis The Season

Its been a while. I know. A couple of weeks. I didn't blog about Thanksgiving. It was great. Meghan's house is always interesting, but this year i was focused on watching BC - Miami that night, and i watched football all day thinking about it. And by the time it was game time, well , i just fell asleep. Oh well. The party at my brother Philip's house certainly was interesting too... very, well, somewhat very un-Girard-like. As my sister was later quoted as saying: "Tequila is bad, very bad!!!!!" in an email to me the next day. She never emails me. That was the extent of the email. You get the idea.

I spent this past weekend up in Deerfield again with Philip. We had a bonfire and watched LOTR and played ping pong and in general got very very drunk. Drinking + Fire + Wind, Very High Wind = Danger. But everyone made it through the night safely.

But the reason I am here tonight is because it is finally the season. The change of the season to be specific. This year fall started a little late, but it went way too long. And this is from someone whose favourite season is fall. I love it. Its great. But it lasted into December. See, i don't call 60 degrees, sunny and muggy on the 1st of December to be winter, by all rights its almost summer. Fall should never go until December. and we didn't even have a transition. It was freezing today. Snowing. That's supposed to happen once in October, to remind us of why we hate living here, a few times in November, to remind us to replace the windshield wiper fluid with the superduper ice breaking kind, and then a lot more after thanksgiving, so that we can have a white Christmas, so as to remind us of what the season is about. Seriously. It has to snow. I don't know how people who live outside of the New England - Canada - New York - Northern States Across the Country, essentially the places that don't get snow, live. Really... because...
.... this morning was sort of a turning point for me. It went from a season that had gone on too long, that had become tired and thin, to a time that is robust and exciting, that is filled with family, friends, happiness, mirth, and all the fun things of the holidays. If it were still fall weather in 3 weeks i probably would have gone on a shooting rampage. Really, you can take it to the bank. My psyche needed this, and I think a lot of people needed this. That wasn't even fall weather that we were having, it was freakish there-is-no-season-for-this weather. It wasn't natural. Plus, I really wanted to be able to wear a sweater. I'm just like that.

Ok, so that was ten minutes of a little stream of consciousness time... maybe you'd like something more... uhm... tangible? Well, as the Bruins didn't go into overtime tonight, I'll give you, my loyal reader (reader, singular), a little overtime of my own.

• Nice game by the Pats yesterday. Nothing like a 28-21 win, outscoring your opponent by a touchdown. Wait, whats that? there was a safety? And a two point conversion? And field goals? And penalties? And turnovers? And turnovers? And turnovers? And John Kitna? And Turnovers? And Turnovers? And the Lions had a QB as their slot wide receiver the whole game? And the patriots couldn't figure out how to deal with that?? At All????? And TURNOVERS? Right. They really, really, really need to pull it together. I'll chat it over with Bill tomorrow.
• The B's won tonight. I don't watch as much as i used to. The Girard family summit in greenfield a couple weeks ago happened on the same night of a bruins game. Not only did I not know the score, i didn't realize they had played until 2 1/2 days later. Yeah, i haven't given up on them, i've just... toned it down a little. I watched some of the game tonight. But I can say with certainty that if they keep playing like this, I'll be watching them deep into the spring (if winter ever gives way to spring, i'm not too sure of these seasons these days). A tough, sometimes sloppy, sometimes brilliant, great goaltending by Thomas, 6-5 regulation win against a tough, tough divisional opponent. The Habs. Sweet.
• Ole, Ole Ole Ole, Ole, Ooollleee. Ole, Ole ole ole, Ole, Ooohlee. Have I mentioned I hate Canadiens fans? YOU'RE NOT SPANISH!!!!
• Meghan and I both have this Thursday off. I'm very excited for this, its always great to see the world on a day when you should be working. I find its a strange and mysterious place out there
• Going to Loon this weekend. If you're reading this, there's probably a 50% chance you are too. Maybe that percentage is bigger, i really don't know who reads this. In fact, it may be an exercise in futility. But just in case it isn't, I won't carry on a conversation here about how well endowed I am... ah dammit...

Just in case you have ever wondered why I suck at posting, its because in my mind, I'm slightly OCD, but only in the organizational way. I don't like to do anything online that people can see (MySpace, blogging, IM, anything) until my gmail inbox is cleaned up. Why? Because I'm a complete freak. Right now there are like 70 emails in there, and it scares me. I don't make time to go through them because i just don't care, but then if I go to blog, i get more than a little uptight. In fact, I've typed this entire post with an irregular heartbeat. Seriously. I'm mentally impaired, i'm not even joking. But at any rate, I don't like to blog because i know that i haven't updated myspace in forever, and i don't like to update myspace because i have emails in my inbox, and i don't like to sort mail because there are files on the harddrive that are not properly foldered. And I don't go through the files because i have cds that i need to add to itunes but i won't update it because what i really need to be doing is charging my phone, but i'm not doing that, i'm too lazy to get up and plug it in, so i'll just sit hear and freak out. Don't be suprised if you learn that i imploded after writing this.

All in all, 27 minutes tonight. Thats 35 more minutes then the Pats played good football on Sunday.