Joy is not in Things. It is in Us.

This Christmas I asked my two stepdaughters for gifts that we could perform together because they don't work, I don't care about embarassing myself in public, and most importantly, it would be fun.  The younger one and myself practiced our dance moves to the On The Rocks version of Lady Gaga,"Bad Romance," and then after about an hour, we asked my husband to come downstairs and videotape and then her older sister was going to guest star in the video in this one solo part in the bridge.  We had fun.  We have great memories and it was taped so that we can share it with family and friends.

Still working on how to upload it...

On another note, I guess I was inspired prior to my microbiology final to dance because I didn't want to use the nervous energy in a negative way.  My husband had said specifically, don't blog, don't play on Facebook, study for your final, you get distracted way too easily (so true).  So I studied hard and I think I actually think I did relatively well, however, prior to leaving the house, I set aside some time so I could dance off some of the extra energy.  I did a practice run through and then taped myself dancing to Lady Gaga "Born This Way," which I consider to be somewhat of a theme song.

Also, for this one, I think I need to get a YouTube account....

The point is that Ben Franklin was a renaissance man and he was good at everything and if he believes that joy is in us and not things, I believe him.  He was a genius inventor and world leader back in the American Revolution times and a friend of mine's "favorite founding father" (mine is George Washington).  Flashback to when I was 5, traveling to Williamsburg, VA and Mount Vernon thinking that literally I had accomplished one of life's missions to be able to go to George Washington's house.  And when this same friend who idolizes Ben Franklin in history, let's just call her, Yorktown, gave me a personalized tour of Philadelphia several years ago, I was just as amazed to see Independence Hall.  I won't even get started on the National Treasure movies.

So remember, as you enter the Christmas season, it is the thought that counts and what is inside you that matters, not the things that surround you.  Things break and hopefully you don't.

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!

Heidi