It's an amazing time of year, a time when people give more than normal, when people seem happier than normal, and the air is just a bit lighter. As I sit in my living room, I begin to wonder about it all. I feel the fire warming my side, I sit amongst a good deal of decorations and I hear the entrancing voices of The Three Tenors, but something is missing. For once, my family is together, kind of... My brother isn't in a strange country, my parents are under the same roof every night, and I have my friends around me. This year, something just feels off, not wrong, but off. It's hard to think of what it could be, I just know something isn't quite right. I love this time of year, I'm usually so happy that it's Christmas, and not that I'm not happy, I'm just not as happy as normal. Perhaps I just need to put the pieces of the puzzle together, however they may fit this year. It's out of my hands, at least part of it, I'll just sit back and deal with whatever I can... Froehe Weihnachten, alle.