Okay, so I’m a few days late on blogging. I was supposed to be back on here Tuesday listing out all the wonderful Christmas gifts that I got. But, I’m simply lazy. I’ve spent the last three days playing with my gifts as opposed to telling the world about them.

I will say that going home was fun, and I did get lots of neat stuff. And since I’m not going to tell about every detail of every thing that I got, I will list the books and movies. Especially since these are the things that will shape my life.

Books

• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century - Thomas L. Friedman
• If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence, and Spirit - Brenda Ueland
• Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy - Gunther Kress
• All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
• Relentless - Robin Parrish
• Nobody's Fool - Richard Russo
• The American Dream and the Public Schools - Jennifer Hochschild, Nathan Scovronick
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King
• Off Magazine Street - Ronald Everett Capps
• Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies—and What It Means to be Human - Joel Garreau
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
• The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness - Dave Ramsey

DVDs

• Rome: Season 1
• King of the Hill: Season 4
• King of the Hill: Season 5
• 24: Season 1
• Seinfeld: Season 7
• Grey's Anatomy: Season 1
• Alias: Season 5
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
• Invincible
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Miami Vice