First off, I'd like to wish everyone here a very merry Christmas, and hope that your Christmas Eve has been just as enjoyable so far.

Quick update on my life. I have recently been accepted to Stony Brook University, and this has really taken a lot of stress off my back (for now at least). The fear of not being accepted anywhere has finally left me, and I can pretty much ride out the rest of my senior year without too much to worry about. But still, I can't believe how much work I am getting in a year that is usually a well-known slack off year. Papers are suddenly a minimum of 5 or 10 pages, tests are getting more and more intense, and to top it off, I still have another pending college application. Listen from experience, senior year in high school is not all it's cracked up to be.

Now, onto the unavoidable subject of...what else...Christmas. I guess you could say that my Christmas started two weeks ago when I saw my dad. Got a few things, mainly gift cards and a watch, and got to see my babybrothers for the first time since August. This past Saturday was also pretty meaningful to me. This is the first Christmas that Tori and I have been together, and we really wanted to make it worthwhile. She got me a Mets shirt and a Thomas and Percy ornament for the tree, and I got her a bracelet with her birthstone, along with her own little ornament and a skull necklace. And give it up for Charlie for sending me the two videos that I needed to complete my collection of Thomasvideos, I'd say that was probably one of the nicest gifts I'vegotten in a while. I really don't know whether this is funny or sad, but I'm 17, andthree different people have given me Thomas related gifts so far. Oh well, some things never change.

I went by my grandparents today for a few hours, mainly so I could get gifts from them and eat like I had two @$$es. It was a little strange, since it was the first time in a good number of years that I did not see my dad on Christmas Eve, but we got through it pretty smoothly. Right now I'm waiting for my second meal of fish in one day, and hoping that I'll be able to save enough room for tomorrow (I'm having duck tomorrow, so...yeah, it's a big deal). And the awesome part is that it's not even remotely cold outside. Feels almost like a spring day. Whoever said that global warming was a bad thing must've beensmoking crack...

But yeah, I hope that you all have an awesome time doing...whatever it is that you do on Christmas, whether it's burning Santa out of the chimney for bringing you coal, or having a game with your friends to see who is the best at peeing their name in the snow. So to all of you, be a rebel, and have a Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year.

Your song of the day (why do I call it that anyway? should be "song of the month") is Snow by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Hope you enjoy the video, I kinda sorta made it. Oh yeah, and thanks to Charlie and Nimo for their part in making it. Without them, it wouldn't have been possible. So if you see them...I dunno...give them a hug or something.

Oh yeah, and thanks to anyone who has given me any sort of Christmas gift (that would be...Charlie), or anyone who is planning on doing so. I really appreciate it.

So that's about it, see you guys whenever...

~Ronnie