when the world looks kinda weird,
and you wish that you weren't there,
just close your eyes and make believe,
and you can be anywhere

So I used to love and actually still love the song Fire and Rain, ever since it was featured on the Dawson's Creek episode where his father died. Anywho, I haven't heard it in a while and then randombly three times since last night I have heard itON THE RADIO, on three separate stations. Seriously why was it on 96.1 99.9 and 104.1 in the last like twelve hours. How random? Is there a big James Taylor comeback tour coming soon or something? Random?

Also, whenever there is strife in Africa , like currently in Kenya, mobs of people always attack others with machettes? Does everyone there just have one? I also wondered about this? Is that like how people here have guns, there thye have machettes? It just really rocks my world that like all of a sudden thousands of peoples in roitous mobs have them at the drop of a dime!

Super suprise guest at the party right now!!!!!!! COME AND GET IT!!!!

In my family as (e:paul) detests we have a few christmas celebrations. We have christmas eve with my aunt and uncle and cousins, then christmas day with just our immediate family, then a day with my dad's extended family and then a day with my mom's extended family. Today it is my mom's extended family. Anywho that is not really what this post is about. I was just thinking that I have a warped sense of what you need for a meal. Like honestly does everyone's family gatherings involve so much food? I guess they prolly do, but like it just seems so crazy how much food is involved, do people out there just have meals with like one meat and just like two sides? They must right, but i just can't imagine. I think if there isn't at least 3 pounds of food per person , it can't be enough. Like today we have I think like 12 people ocming over but my mom is making roasted chickens, liek a pot roast, clams casino, asparagus with mushrooms thing, a chick pea salad, another salad, twice baked cheesy potatoes and prolly like at least 3 other things. And she is always nervous there won't be enough, though from (e:paul)'s photos you can see there is always plenty. I think I always think the same way, like if i am having a dinner party there needs to be like 100 things, it makes it very hard to pull off (esp. since i have zero kitchen skills). So i don't know, I love that there is so much food, but is everyone's family like this?

So OMG my aunt's niece (but not my cousin) had some challenge for her elementary school to like make a difference and so she started this website in honor of her grandfather (my aunt's brother) where she wrote for 25 days about something she did to make a difference in somoene's life and then asked others to send in what they are doing. She offered to send $25 (her like monthly allowance or something) to the charity of choice of the person who did the best deed. Well like it got some attention on the news and other places and like some other people have decided to match her $25 and so it is like up to $650 going to charity and like all these classes and stuff got involved in doing good deeds. She is like 9 years old. I think that is pretty awesome... i think it is over now cuz i think it was only until december 25 but the website is

www.twentyfivedays.wordpress.com

check it out

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