Colin’s Weblog

Christmas has always been my favorite holiday for many reasons.  When I was younger it was all about the presents, now that I’ve grown up a bit more its all about the traditions and in giving I get so much more joy than receiving presents.  Putting up the family Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving has become one of my favorite parts of the weekend, and now I’ve started a new tradition of putting up my own Christmas tree.  This is my first Christmas tree outside of my home in Warsaw, we never had one in college and I just didn’t have the space to do it at my Chicago apartments, but now I have space and it was a blast to put it up today.  As an added bonus, it is a great source of light to help light up the aparment, I’m sure many of my guests will appreciate that when they visit as my place.  I think I need some more ornaments for it though.  I’ve got a few unique ones like a Colts ornament and a Rudolph snow globe, the rest are your typical: gold, red, and green bulbs. 

I’ve got a big week ahead of me here and I’m excited for it.  Tuesday-Thursday is a work conference here in Indy, Mom and Dad are coming down, and Mom will get to see my new place for the first time.  That means that tomorrow will be spent cleaning in between work stuff.  Tuesday night is going to be awesome, the Duke Blue Devils are coming to West Lafayette to take on the Boilermakers.  I’m so stoked and so lucky to have some amazing seats for the game.  You are hearing it here first, the Boilermakers are going to bounce back after getting worked over by the idiot ref’s last weekend to hand Duke their first loss of the season.  I’m predicting a very close game with a last second bucket from Etuan Moore to give us the win 72-69.  On a side note, its just awesome to get the chance to see Duke live, I’ve respected them for so long and Coack K seems like a really classy guy who does it right, but Purdue will prevail!

Its looking like their is a trip to the Cactus in store for next weekend too, so Brucey be ready for a hell of a night.  Thats all for now, check back soon, I’m sure I will have more on my mind.

-Colin