About a week until Christmas. I am so excited! It's a little sad being here during this time. Kind of lonely. Christmas has always been such a large and important holiday to me and my family. Not so much with John's. But that's okay. I've been listening to those sappy Christmas only radio stations in my car and at work. My assistant has gotten so sick of it she had to change it back to her country station. That's when I brought in my own radio to listen in my office! Although I can understand how "I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and "Winter Wonderland" can get annoying. Besides the music, I'm also baking pumpkin bread. This is another tradition I liked doing. My sisters, mom, and I would bake cookies and other goodies more so around this time of year than at any other time. The entire house would smell delicious. Since John is out and it's 10pm Thursday night, I decided to go ahead and blast the music, turn on our Christmas lights, and bake!! Those short periods of time when I'm home by myself is nice. I like it. It's quite and peaceful, just me and I can do whatever I want. And tonight, I turned off the TV, logged off facebook, turned up the music, lights, and oven and got a' bakin!