I’m back, like a season premier…

If you didn’t catch it from the previous post, I’ve spent the past few days skiing in the Colorado Rocky Mountains (High). I took a few pictures, which you can see over on my flickr page. I flew back to a balmy Dallas this afternoon, and during my flight I realized that it was January 1st. This brought to mind thoughts of all kinds, some of which will be made accessible to you in the following paragraphs. Before I go into some thoughts, I’ll warm you up with this one: I’m aware my absence didn’t cause a great discrepancy in the consistency of odfm’s post output as the two most recent post titles would lead you to believe. Nobody cares, but I had to get that out.

As you’ve surfed the web over the past week, you’ve inevitably come across “best/worst of 2007″ lists or “year in reviews”… things of that nature. Well I’m either not clever enough or not in the mood to produce such a list of my own. However, I can offer you this: I think (at least right now… I’ll probably change my mind by next year) that New Year’s is dumb. I’m sure I’ve got lots of trivial reasons as to why I think that, but perhaps the only useful opinion is this: I think the goings on that often accompany New Year’s are pretty fake. So many of the resolutions and other pseudo-promises we make ourselves this time of year never come to fruition. We pray all thankful-like for the past year and immediately ask for blessings on the year to come…

Here’s what it is: I hate all things fake, and I’m quick to say that people aren’t sincere in, well, lots of things. So really the problem is with me. I hate lots of things really. Again, a problem. Well since I’m such a hater, I’m going to go out with a short list (the very kind I said I wasn’t going to offer just moments ago). Things I love, in no particular order, and to go with the theme, they’ll be things from ‘07.

• Thursday nights in College Station (hope group, Office, Scrubs… amen)
• My families (blood fam, REI fam, the Hendricks, the Luther boys)
• IHOP (the pancake one, not the prayer one… sorry Jessie)
• iWitness
• Cavittville (and the walks thereabout)
• Blog comments (no link necessary… you know it)
• Ice cream
• Andrew Peterson

Ok, I’m done. I hope you aren’t depressed, and I really hope you don’t think I’m depressed. I’m not. Just go look at those pictures I took. That’ll cheer you up. Well… happy new years… or something.