So it Ends.

Well, folks, this is it. This blog has been really fun. Thanks if you read this. I hope you've enjoyed peeking in on my life.

I suppose I'll see you in two years.

And now I leave you with some Christmas love in the form of David Bowie and Bing Crosby.



Love,
ktg.

La Vida es Aventura.

Woah!

Life here lately has been an unbelievable adventure lately. A crazed, wild adventure. But it will pale in comparison to the Mission, which will be the greatest Adventure yet, methinks.

Anyway, what is going on in my life? Oh, just everything.

I leave for Utah a week from TODAY! Yes, Monday December 10, I will leave my home for two years. Everything I will need must fit into two suitcases. Because I'm leaving, I'm kind of scrambling to get everything together. Or rather, Mom is scrambling to get everything together while I complain about it. Thank God for my wonderful mother.

But there is still so much to do. From calling all of my out-of-town friends for one last time to going to the optometrist, I've got a full plate this week.

All I do is live/breathe/sleep/think MISSION. Speaking of which, my two childhood best friends, Caleb and Jon Trujillo got their mission calls. Well wait, I'm jumping too far ahead in this story. So there are three missions based in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Argentina Buenos Aires North, Argentina Buenos Aires South, and Argentina Buenos Aires West. So anyway Caleb and Jon are these twins I used to pal around with from about age 7 to 12. Then they moved to Colorado. I've seen them a couple times since and talked to them a few times. Anyway, so they called me on Tuesday and Jon is going South and Caleb West. Weirdness, right?

More mission-related weirdness: one of the guys in The Scene Aesthetic is Mormon. As if that's not weird enough, he's serving a mission in the Argentina Rosario Mission. This isn't just a rumor. Check the site, man, it's there.

Anyway, my last day of work was the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. You have no idea how sweet thinking about not going to work is. That night I spent the night at my cousin Reed's house (for clarification I have a brother Reed AND a cousin Reed) and stayed up way too late and got up way too early. But it was very worth it.

The next morning, I went with my sister Marlena and her fam to our sister LeAndrea's house in order to Give Thanks. I really love Thanksgiving. We hung around there for a while and my cousin Ami came up. Then I drove down with my cousin Matt to Disney World.

Man, Disney world was beyond radical. I could start a whole different blog (kirksultradisneyworldtripexplosivehiiyavacation2007.blogspot.com, maybe?) but that would just be unnecessary. Suffice it to say, Disney World rules so hard. Except for Epcot. If you're planning a Disney trip, remove Epcot from your itinerary. It blows. Animal Kingdom is my favorite park down there. The animals really rule so hard. And that Expedition Everest ride they got sporting down there is fun. Disney is just so expensive. You save up and watch it all quickly disappear.

The only drawback to being down there is the warmth...It was November. And there were all these Christmas decorations, but it definitely did not feel like Christmas. In fact it didn't feel like Christmas until I got home and the house was decorated. I'm glad I didn't have to participate in the decorating like last year.

So one of my (if not my absolute most) favorite bands, Anberlin came out with a B-Sides/unreleased album called Lost Songs. This is not really relevant nor is it pertinent but I'm all about the musick.

Okay, I think I'm FINALLY done.

Merry Christmas.

Christmas in August?.

This weekend I bought the Sufjan Stevens Christmas CD, Songs for Christmas.

Buy it now. It will complete your life. I've listened to it so much the past few days. And I love it.

The Christmas Spirit is Definitely Dead.

The past few days we have been de-decorating our house. And I want to just throw all of the decorations in a pile and set fire to them. I have never walked up and down the stairs in this house more times in my life than I have yesterday and today. And I'm pretty sure that if I didn't have any morals, I would have already pushed my mother into oncoming traffic.

Also, I've had this great headache the past few days.

Basically, this week has ruled.

Tonight the first Four Square of 2007 will happen. I am stoked.

And so this is Christmas.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I love this season. There is so much hope to be found this time of year; not that the blessings of Jesus the Christ do not extend to all men at all times, but this is the time of year when we are all reminded of the glorious and humble birth of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ, son of Mary.

I hope you all feel the blessings of the Man who, over two millennia ago, was born in a humble stable in Judea; the Man who taught and preached and healed; the Man who atoned for our sins; the Man who suffered on the cross; the Man who again took up his body in a great resurrection of life. Forget about the presents; they are fleeting. The blessings of one Jesus Christ extend to the Eternities and never diminish.

Have a wonderful holiday, everyone. Again, Merry Christmas.

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."

-Isaiah 9: 6-7

Yeee Hawww!

MY FRIEND ALLIE NOE IS COMING TO CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR! I am excited.

Plans for today: wrapping gifts. Mmmmm. I love wrapping.

Two Things I like Right Now (It Seems Like that's All my Blogs are about).

1.) I really, really like getting Christmas cards. That is so fun. Please send me Christmas cards, please. Seriously.

2.) I also really like Natalie Dee. This drawing came from there.

That's all.

Potpourri.

I love Christmas.
I love Christmas music.
Listen to some good Christmas music here.

The past few days have been sunny and cold. I love that. It's the winter rain that kill me.

I look at the weather somewhat religiously now that I'm a collegian. I think that that means that I am more of an adult. Because all adults care about is money and the weather.

I don't want to grow up.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year?

I really love Christmas when it DOESN'T interfere with my social life.

Every year I set up the the village and the big Nativity set. And of course the very second I want to go somewhere, mom pulls that out of nowhere and says that I have to do those.

More like Crapmas.
That was probably bad, right?