this is not nostalgia...
how the hell is it december?!!? where does the time go??? time is different here somehow. ("time was different in china"...) but seriously, sometimes i feel like entire days here seem to drag on for years, but then all of sudden, an entire month has gone by. bizarre.
but even more strange is that an entire YEAR has gone by... last year around this time, alicia and linford and i went out and picked out the biggest christmas tree we could strap onto the top of my car (may she rest in peace) and put it up in front of the huge window in the front of the house. his house. with the freaking cross in the front yard! our crazy house, where every other week someone new was moving in or out! where we had to keep our illegal cat stowed away upstairs, and our juan hidden in the basement!
nick and george still owned greek's. jesus was our busboy. and there was daily drama with elisa. (remember elisa!?!?!?) and i was just starting to work the dayshift with the cool kids =)
heather was still at the bucks, and i was opening with pearson, who's no longer pearson, on a daily basis--and learning how to be a real shift! we were up to our ears in eggnog, gingerbread, and cranberry bliss bars, and had to fight the urge to slit our wrists everytime a certain christmas song came on--i like a sleigh ride, i like a sleigh ride (errr, thanks, shannon)... and of course, what could be more merry than cranky christmas shoppers, who haven't had their coffee yet? "can i have a venti non-fat extra hot no foam eggnog latte? that IS non-fat, right??" ...sure it is. *grin*...
yeah. and now i'm in germany, where i work 12 hours a week instead of 12 hours a day!! where glühwein is the seasonal beverage of choice, and it's almost sacriligious to put up your christmas tree before the 24th--unless you're some kind of corporation, in which case you put one on top of your business building, so that when people drive by at night, it looks like there are random christmas trees floating in midair. (not creepy at all!!) lebkuchen, stollen, and plätzchen abound, and on a good day, i might only be reprimanded once for my (apparent) inability to correctly pronounce the word "plätzchen"... i infinitely prefer glühwein to eggnog, though, so that's at least a step in the right direction. (score one for the germans!!)
but even more strange is that an entire YEAR has gone by... last year around this time, alicia and linford and i went out and picked out the biggest christmas tree we could strap onto the top of my car (may she rest in peace) and put it up in front of the huge window in the front of the house. his house. with the freaking cross in the front yard! our crazy house, where every other week someone new was moving in or out! where we had to keep our illegal cat stowed away upstairs, and our juan hidden in the basement!
nick and george still owned greek's. jesus was our busboy. and there was daily drama with elisa. (remember elisa!?!?!?) and i was just starting to work the dayshift with the cool kids =)
heather was still at the bucks, and i was opening with pearson, who's no longer pearson, on a daily basis--and learning how to be a real shift! we were up to our ears in eggnog, gingerbread, and cranberry bliss bars, and had to fight the urge to slit our wrists everytime a certain christmas song came on--i like a sleigh ride, i like a sleigh ride (errr, thanks, shannon)... and of course, what could be more merry than cranky christmas shoppers, who haven't had their coffee yet? "can i have a venti non-fat extra hot no foam eggnog latte? that IS non-fat, right??" ...sure it is. *grin*...
yeah. and now i'm in germany, where i work 12 hours a week instead of 12 hours a day!! where glühwein is the seasonal beverage of choice, and it's almost sacriligious to put up your christmas tree before the 24th--unless you're some kind of corporation, in which case you put one on top of your business building, so that when people drive by at night, it looks like there are random christmas trees floating in midair. (not creepy at all!!) lebkuchen, stollen, and plätzchen abound, and on a good day, i might only be reprimanded once for my (apparent) inability to correctly pronounce the word "plätzchen"... i infinitely prefer glühwein to eggnog, though, so that's at least a step in the right direction. (score one for the germans!!)
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