My Favorite Christmas Gifts, et al.

My Favorite Christmas Gifts
1. A luxurious red robe from my pops.

2. A Happy Bunny t-shirt from my mom that says "Teachers are great.  Whatever.  Can I have an A?"

3. A Kindle Fire from my brother.

My Favorite Gifts to Others
1. A waffle iron for my mom (We tore UP some Belgian waffles this morning.)

2. A t-shirt for my little brother that has a picture of a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly holding a boombox with music playing and the peanut butter saying "That's my jam!"

3. A musical light-up dreidel for a friend.

Leviticus
Leviticus is kind of boring.  It's one of the most boring books of the Bible.  All these rules and sexist laws . . . LOL.  But Chapter 11 has me rolling every time.  It's the chapter (or one of the many chapters in the Old Testament) that talks about clean and unclean animals.  Basically, what animals they could and could not eat.  It is SO funny.  So, when God talks about what birds they can't eat, He's like, don't eat flying things like vultures, eagles, owls, and bats.  Yuck!  I mean, who eats that? LOL.  Like, if I were the children of Israel I would've been like, dude, if You have worries about anything, the least of them should be that I'm going to backslide by eating some bat stew.  Really? Ugh.  But then He's like, okay, don't eat any winged insects that walk on the ground (again, no worries there), but you are allowed to eat locusts, crickets and grasshoppers. Um, thanks, God, but no thanks.  LOL.  Then He lists some other super nasty animals that are "creeping things" that He doesn't want anyone to eat: ferrets, chameleons, snails and moles, for example.  Okay, I did eat escargot a couple of times, and that does sound nasty, but it really isn't.  But chameleons?  Ewww.  It makes me wonder about the Israelites.  Like, what were y'all doing?  Just eating every nasty thing you could get your hands on so that God was like, whoa, y'all are going to have to settle down with this whole eating the doggone zoo business, so let me get some laws together to keep you from getting all kinds of exotic indigestion?

Doing nothing
I'm starting to get used to it.  Uh, oh.  I've gained a few pounds (just a few) and now I have to wean myself of a new Angry Birds addiction.  I'm really enjoying this time to sleep in and eat and hang out with friends that I don't get to see too often.  I think I'll be ready to get back in the game when Jan 9th rolls around, though.  I can only do nothing for so long before I start getting restless.