It's not beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Today, it's a beautiful, breezy 64 plus degrees outside.

I'm not complaining. I love this temperature. I think it's just about perfect. However, it's also December, almost mid-December. What's the deal?

Not that I want to walk to the bus stop in snow, or even the deep chilliness we had on Monday. But I'm wondering if it will start snowing or being chilly *after* my school year is done and I don't have to take the city bus as often.

Others are wondering, too.

When it does come, though, I wager it's gonna come down hard.

Perhaps we'll have a white Christmas. I got one last year and the year before, which were nice presents for the FL (and CA) girl I've been since I was 6. I'd love to have one again if I'm gonna be in the area. Hick, I'd love to have one wherever I'm gonna be.

In the meantime, though...

I went to a Christmas concert on Saturday -- one that I've been looking forward to for at least two years. Andrew Peterson toured with Silars Bald last year for a Christmas tour with original songs, and I was all set to go to the concert in Baltimore, had a ride and everything. But then the car I was going to be riding in broke down at the last moment and we couldn't track down another, or someone else from our area that was going, in time. So I missed it.

This year, it was not nearly so far away, and I got to spend much of the day at the church where the concert was being held. The church wasn't yet decorated for Christmas, either, and the first part of the concert were the regular radio hits by Andy and a few songs by Silars. It wasn't 'till after intermission and then about two songs into their set that I really "got into the Christmas mood", or at least realized that Christmas Day is not far away.

And that means my birthday isn't far away, either. Indeed, December first marked the two month (or 62 day) countdown to my birthday.

Not to mention that by this time next week I will have completed all my final exams already, and therefore will have already completed my first semester of college. Hopefully, with straight A's, might I add. (It's possible in first aid I'll get a B .. but that would still be one of the higher grades in the class. ;) )

There's a lot going on these days, folks.

And to think that I will hopefully get to see my niece (for the second time since her birth almost a year ago) and some old friends and relatives in FL towards the end of this month!

yay. :)