7 Quick Takes Friday

This is my first time doing 7 Quick Takes. At least, I think it is. I’ve been considering incorporating it for a while. I, like most people, have at least seven random thoughts this week that I think about sharing, but find they do not merit a whole post on their own. This is a great catch-all, right?

Did you know that Afterthoughts turns eight next week? Eight whole years of thinking about thoughts other people thunk first. It has been a great ride and I’ve grown quite attached to you all over the years.

In honor of my eighth anniversary, I’m going to do a blog survey. You can watch for it. It might post as early as tomorrow, if all goes as planned {which it usually doesn’t, but here’s hoping!}. I asked some sweet blogging friends of mine for advice on what to ask in my survey, and Mystie says she already posted one and I can just go look at hers.

Show off.

If only I were an INTJ instead of an INTP, this would have been done last week!

Anyhow, like I said, I’m working on a survey. I don’t plan to post very much until 2014, so that leaves plenty of time for you all to fill. it. out. {Hint hint!}

I’m also working on my New Year’s resolutions. My new plan is to try and complete them all by next week {except for “eat more chocolate” — I will try and drag that one out for the full year} so that I can be a slacker by February. Who’s with me?

I’m cleaning out the garage tomorrow, so I’m halfway there already. Anyone want a dusty, recalled carseat?

Sigh.

Today is the third day of Christmas. How many of you celebrate for the full twelve days? I don’t mean necessarily every day feeling like Christmas because, frankly, that might kill a person. But I mean things like keeping up the decorations and still enjoying the music, and generally maintaining a spirit of festivity?

I am trying to talk my husband into a Twelfth Night bonfire. Last year we made s’mores in our backyard over our tiny firepit thingie; this year I’d like to invite some friends and make merry on a slightly larger scale.

This coincides with my “eat more chocolate” resolution, if you couldn’t tell.

Did you ever noticed the Twelve Days of Christmas in A Christmas Carol? This year was the first year I noticed it. When the ghost of Christmas present takes Scrooge on his wild tour of the festivities, the ghost grows older as time goes on. Scrooge questions him about growing old in such a short period of time. In prior years, I always read this as growing old in approximately 24 hours, but I no longer think this is the case! I was so excited when I noticed this:

It was a long night, if it were only a night; but Scrooge had his doubts of this, because the Christmas Holidays appeared to be condensed into the space of time they passed together. It was strange, too, that while Scrooge remained unaltered in his outward form, the Ghost grew older, clearly older. Scrooge had observed this change, but never spoke of it, until they left a children’s Twelfth Night party, when, looking at the Spirit as they stood together in an open place, he noticed that its hair was grey.

Isn’t that interesting?

Why, oh why, are skinny pants in style? How I hate them, Sam I am. I don’t know why, but I feel positively claustrophobic with denim wrapped that tightly around my ankles. If, statistically speaking, panic attacks are on the rise, I. blame. fashion.