the peanuts and me

tonight i taped "a charlie brown christmas"
i saw the commercials for it a few days ago
and i got very excited
i can't say that in years past i felt the need to see it
but for some reason, this year it became very important to me
here i am, at 11:17 pm watching the tape
and boy, do i love it!
the family decided to not do any gifts this year for xmas
(i think do in large part to my complaining about poverty
and lugging stuff around the city)
i think i'm just enjoying the fact that this tv show
is bringing up all those memories associated with holidays
find the presents early, eating all the cookie dough, making lizzie wrap my gifts
not the traditional holiday memories that most have
but they are mine

and i think a lot of it has to with the fact
that i just love the peanuts
the peanuts thanksgiving special is without peer
toast, jelly beans, and popcorn at a ping pong table!!

i spoke to about 80% of my lander RAs on saturday
such a good group of kids
great RAs and amazing people
best part of my seattle experience
(even as i'm realizing that seattle was a pretty much
my favorite place i've ever lived--d'oh!)

wait, i think i figured out one of the reasons i like this tv special so much
it is able to invoke real emotion
for example, when charlie doesn't get any christmas cards in his mailbox
you really feel sorry for him
and once linus starts sucking his thumb and dragging around that blanket
you'll find nothing cuter

and thus concludes my peanuts pondering