Uhg, my brain is full… so you get a brain dump today!  Fortunately, this was the last day of work for me this year.  I’m taking vacation tomorrow and then my company is on break until January 2nd. I still have a fairly busy schedule, but most of it is social activities with friends and my kids.

I’m working on a new movie review tonight.  I caught a screening of The Good Shepherd yesterday. I found it fascinating.  This is no light weight piece of entertainment but rather an intellectually challenging look at how the CIA came to be.  Based in part on fact, with characters that are composites of actual people. If you are into history and political intrique, you might enjoy it.  Brace yourself though, it weighs in at nearly 3 hours and you will find no fight sequences or car chases… this one is purely character driven.

Back to time off… hopefully tomorrow I’ll actually get my Christmas cards and mix CDs in the mail.  Talk about putting it off until the last minute… sheesh! I still have to pick up a few stocking stuffers too… I might try to do that early tomorrow when hopefully most people are at work… and I’m not! Mwwaahhaahhhaaa…

Did I mention there is half a carrot cake in the kitchen beckoning me… calling me… seducing me… followed me home from a holiday luncheon today…

I leave you now with a Christmas song… I may swap music daily for the next week or so and run through some of my favorite seasonal tunes.