100 things, part nine

27. One of my favorite things about the holidays is the whole walnuts, pecans, almonds, and hazlenuts you can buy at the store. (Luckily, Jesse likes the Brazil nuts.) They're so yummy, not to mention fun to crack.
28. Grocery stores are like some kind of strange vortex for me. I frequently avoid them, but at times that's not possible, or I can't think of anything else to do. The thing is, I don't even know what happens in there. I'll be reading the label on a can, or looking around at all the stuff on the shelves (there's so much stuff!) and the next thing I know, I've been shuffling through the aisles like a zombie for three hours and I've got six things in my cart.
29. There's something kind of nice about a fresh new year, even though it's still on a continuum with the previous days. For instance, the same things I didn't have done at work on December 31 are still not done, and I'll still have to do them, but for some reason, the ticking of a clock from one second to the next brings with it this crazy hopefulness that everything will be better in the new year. This year brings ten times the hope--a whole new decade to wish upon! Anyhow, 2009 seemed to be a pretty bummer year for a lot of people, so here's hoping that the '10s are the raddest yet. For everybody.

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