It's beginning to look a lot like . . .

So it finally started snowing here in L**** yesterday. Which is a good thing because it's been unseasonably dry and we need water, etc. But I was kind of having fun pointing and laughing at all the skiers and snowboarders who've been standing around in clumps looking all forlorn as they gazed up at the dry, brown mountains.

I'm trying to make lists of things I want to do this next month to feel all Christmassy. It always seems to go by so fast and I'd really like to be able to slow down and enjoy the thing, dangit.

So here are some of the things I want to do. Would love to get ideas from anyone else who has some favorite traditions!

1. Go see the King's Singers sing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a couple of weeks. And I realize that the new random selection thing they're doing with the tickets this year is more fair and stuff, but come on! We almost didn't get any! It would have been tragic!

2. Adopt a Sub for Santa family with my singles ward.

3. Make homemade Christmas gifts to give to coworkers and friends. Can't tell you what the gift is yet, except that it's awesome and you're going to wish you had one.

4. Go see every Christmas concert I possibly can. The Tabernacle here in L**** has a pretty full schedule of free concerts this December.

5. Do something about the dismal, tragic lack of decorations in my apartment and, by extension, my neighborhood. I swear my street looks like it's preparing for the Blitz. Or a drug bust, which is more likely. But someone needs to get some lights up, and if it has to be me then that's fine. Also I quite fancy a berry wreath for my front door.

6. Check out Preston Idaho's annual Festival of Lights. Will be sure to take Chapstick, tater tots, and computer-hacking skills with me.

7. Curl up with Christmas music and hot chocolate while writing Christmas cards.

8. Get Christmas shopping finished as soon as possible so I can avoid the crowds of increasingly nasty people who will only kill my Christmas buzz.

9. Eat chocolate crinkles. Lots and lots of chocolate crinkles. Jen, you gonna hook me up here?

10. Watch the Christmas movies. Must-sees include A Christmas Story, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and It's a Wonderful Life (which must be watched in the original black and white, never in color. Because we were not raised by wolves.) This year I have a new favorite: Joyeux Noel. I want to watch it with my family at Christmas, if we can get my dad past the part where some of the characters may possibly speak the French.


Am I forgetting anything?

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