The Eve

This is the post where I can hopefully build some rapport. So far I have come across on Old Man Yeomans as looking down on singles, jealous of marrieds, and a fair bit wierd and obsessed with manners. Probably only some of that is true. Perhaps a bit crazy is what I am going for here anyways.
Lets talk about my real life these days. Tonight is the night before most of my family, and my girlfriend, Anh, come to visit me for Thanksgiving. (Yes, I am Canadian and we do have a different date for Thanksgiving). Actually, this reminds me that next week it is time to set up for Christmas because it is officially the season, according to me.
Anyways, I am really, really excited for this weekend. I don't remember even being this excited for Christmas in recent years. Maybe it is because I get to host. I finally live completely on my own and can do this sort of thing. All of a sudden I am thinking of that movie, Pieces of April with Katie Holmes. In the movie, poor April doesn't have too much of her life together, yet she does make a thanksgiving dinner for her family. I, on the other hand, am not even pulling that off; my parents and sister are bringing most of the food. I liked the movie surprisingly enough. I had to say that so we can drop it and get back to my life. There will be 6 of us staying in my 2 bedroom apartment. But, as Mitch Hedberg points out, it is up to me how many bedrooms my apartment has. Mine has 6. One room just has a stove in it, another looks like a closet, another looks like a hallway, and another bedroom has couches and people tend to watch TV in it.
Another reason I think I am so excited about this weekend is that it may be my only Christmas-type get-to-gether with family and loved-ones (Anh, so far you fall under the Loved-one category) that I will get this year. See, as a new pastor, I am not quite sure if I get any time off at Christmas time. It's not that we aren't all about celebrating the incarnation. It's more about the fact that we are so into celebrating the birth of Christ as a church community, I don't know if I get any time where I am actually allowed to leave town because of it.
So, I am going to enjoy every moment of having us all here in my little pad. I hope everyone doesn't mind giving up their otherwise luxurious lives for a couple days to be apart of the highlight of my year.