I’ve been having a wee bit of writer’s block lately, which never used to stop me before (I would just resort to more Youtube video posts and such), but lately I’ve been thinking that I need to have more of a purpose in my communication, instead of blowing meaningless effluvia across the internet’s hot coals.

I’ve also been kind of busy — I have had a temp job for a few weeks now (which I don’t enjoy whatsoever, and which is an insult to my skill set — I’ll just leave it at that), and I have also been undergoing a clinical trial to make some extra cash. But I am keeping my eye on the prize — a future of financial solvency, for one, and getting this awful year behind me, two. 2009 will go down as one of the worst on record — it would be the worse, if not for the fact that I said 2008 was the worst, and I don’t like to contradict myself.

That being said, I am actually looking forward to 2010, because all this pent-up energy I have — to travel, to live healthfully, to live elsewhere, to refocus and reacquaint myself with normalcy, it might just become a groundswell that will finally take me out of this malaise I’ve had for the past few years.

As for the end of December, I’m trying my hardest to be saccharine and sentimental about the holidays, and searching for things for which to be thankful.

Oh, I did find one thing — this Christmas commercial from 1980 that combines kittens with synthesizers in a cloying mix of near-tears nostalgia. Watch!

Happy holidays, everyone.