Merry Christmas Michael Jackson
3:11 PM
Emily
December 28th, 2009: Peagler Family trip to Amelia Island during which we took a family outing to go ride the Jacksonville Ferry. Well we drove about 25 minutes past the thing (beside the point) but once we found it we rode across the river. Once on the other side we ate at a shack on the shore that served seafood. Once there and having ordered our linner (it was 3:45 in the afternoon, what were we doing?) my brothers saw a jukebox alone in the corner that needed some tunes playing. So they begged my dad for a dollar and walked over to it in the very quiet restaurant. Well I wait to see what they pick when all the sudden "SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN, SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN, SANTA CLAUS IS COMINGGGGG TO TOWNNNN" blares out of the juke box by none other than the dead american pop star and his four brothers on December 28th. Great job boys. They came back to the table saying they couldn't figure out how to work it... go figure. But all me and my Mom could do was laugh while my Dad just rolled his eyes and proceeded to lecture my brothers that if they didn't know how to use something they just shouldn't use it at all. While suffering laughing through the whole song we were all relieved to hear it end. But lo and behold when our anticipation of hopefully hearing a more appropriate song was dashed by these words raining out of the jukebox...
"SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN, SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN, SANTA CLAUS IS COMINGGGGG TO TOWNNNN"... again
Yep. Never again will we hear that song as a family and forget our time in Amelia Island when we heard that song 3 days too late... Or was it just 362 days too early?
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10:37 PM
Emily
Welcome to the New Year! I have less than two hours to post this on the first day of 2010...
I rang in the new year in a cabin in North Carolina with great friends and here I am now in Alpharetta thinking about what's to come in the new year. See it's the year I have been told I'm graduating from college. So now for me to see that this arbitrary "class of 2010" banner is actually happening- kind of surreal. And that will be a huge stepping stone for me. But I'll also do normal things like stay up late some random nights and work and celebrate birthdays. So it's hard to have true definitions of my calendar years.it's much easier for me to summarize august to may rather than jan to december. but for 2010 I want to start off with some written down resolutions... maybe not necessarily resolutions but more like goals... actually I think I'll call it my bucket list
- read through Revelation in one sitting (recommended to me by a great friend)
- never stop learning (that should be vague enough that I can accomplish it )
- take pictures more often
- read lots and lots of books
--Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind by Joyce Meyer
--Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
--Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
--The Help by Katherine Stockett
--anything Pat Conroy
-- Future Grace by John Piper
many more to come but those are a few I've had my eye on
- stay physically healthy (again vague but I want to watch what I eat and get out and excercise every so often)
- not eat the 54 ounce bag of skittles my brother got me for Christmas by myself
And I'm out
I may add more to this list but I'm glad to be in the twenty teens era- or whatever we're going to call this upcoming few years.
Happy New Year!!
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