well, i have bad news.

if you haven't gotten your christmas card by now, it's just not coming.

so sorry. i never could figure out the intricacies of international mail. this is in no way an indication of any less love for our madpony friends overseas. we love each and every one of you equally, even you crazy non-americans.

as my personal apology to you, i will, over the next few weeks, bring you the finest of our christmas card pictures which were rejected for use this year.

here are lauren and i, taking perhaps the seventh picture we took on that bench. doesn't our sweet little horse bugsy look less than amused about all of this? in a few of our poses lauren and i both hopped on his back. my smile looks a bit tense in those pictures, probably because i am fearing for my life. anyway.

i am off to class to bargain with my political science teacher about whether or not i must do a six page paper on the material covered in the first test, the one that i missed due to the fact that i was still clinging to my bed with disease. i am less than pleased about this possible six page development. oh well. at least he isn't everyone's favorite poverty-stricken leprechaun spanish professor.

off i go!

now you go here.

he is my favorite crazy non-american, and while he doesn't have a pony, he *does* have a donkey.