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Last year I posted a blog entry about how I had convinced my family that we should give up the wrapping of gifts in the name of not creating further excess waste and saving trees, and all that good stuff, and go to strictly using bags which thus can be reused ever year.

Well this year I have taken the next step in creating a more eco-friendly and green holiday and give a little something to the Earth which is too often neglected.

The way our family does things, is ...

Has it really been so long since i last blogged? I really didn't realize it had been. >< I thought it was only a few weeks, not almost two months! I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
Okay, I'm going to vent. Whether you like it or not. I'm sorry. But I have some stuff on my mind.
One thing. I'M SO LAZY!!!!!!!!!! Grr! Like yeah......... I sleep for like 8 hours, and i'm wiped out all day. Really??? It's so frustrating. I don't want to be tired. I REALLY, REALLY don't want to tired. ...

For every reader there must be certain books which you can pinpoint from your childhood as pivotal books, books that affected and, perhaps, permanently cemented your relationship with reading. For me, The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper is one of those books.

There are five books in the series: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree. I'm sure there'd be some debate over which is the favourite, but for me it will always be ...

I love you, interlopers of spring
Black all over, flitting by like wind
As if a certain kind of indefinable implication
Your presence brings mysterious atmosphere

At this early morning, fragrance wafting all around
When the sun rises from the water
The shimmering wave shows us the distant future ?
Beholding you, flying fairies
Like beholding my long lost desire

I want to bestow my most yearningname on you
Countless ...

I had to venture into the depths of the dark abyss otherwise known as the mall, which is something I normally avoid like the plague. Because Romero was right, it is over run by zombies. Slow moving, most likely brain dead individuals who though they may not be very fast or all that intelligent can over power you by the sheer force of their numbers.

In addition to trying to navigate around this mass there are the countless kiosks with overly peppy individuals trying to sell you stuff ...