Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Well it’s Christmas Eve, and I want to wish everyone who reads this blog (and your friends and families) a Merry Christmas (or just happy holidays if you don’t celebrate Christmas)!

I’m usually way more excited about winter break, but considering I’ve been on break since November 6, you can’t really blame me for not being as excited. Nonetheless, it’s still my favourite holiday, so I’m going to enjoy it as much as possible anyhow =)

Because of my recent interest in learning to play, my family decided to get me a new guitar this Christmas. So yesterday my father, brother and I went to Long & McQuade to check their guitars out.

I’m going to be flat out honest here. I hate shopping. Nothing bores me more than random store browsing. I’m the kind of guy where I’ll buy something only when I need something. In addition, I’m really indifferent to the exact product I buy. If I needed to buy a couch, I would just pick anything decent I saw in the first five minutes. I just really don’t care what I use as long as the product works. I am really hoping the girl of my dreams is someone who likes to shop way more than I do or else our home will probably be very empty of furniture, or just look really awful inside.

One of the reasons I don’t like shopping is that I don’t like change, and usually, shopping for something new means replacing something old. So that’s why I don’t choose to shop unless I really absolutely have to. As an example to how lazy I am to change, I have had my mom’s old cell phone for probably four years now. My brother recently got a new cell phone and gave me his old one, which is still newer and significantly better than my current cell phone – but I’m too lazy to just transfer the SIM card over. As long as my current phone works, I really don’t care to change it.

Why am I telling you all this? Well suffice to say, my family was a bit irritated with me when we went to the music store because I honestly didn’t care what we bought. To me a guitar is a guitar, and anything newer than what we have at home (which is probably like 20 years old or something) is going to be a significant upgrade. Some people are going to think I’m an idiot or whatever, but I just personally don’t know enough about guitars (or care enough) to really “want” a specific type.

In the end, I just decided to go with a guitar that my dad seemed to like: the Epiphone John Lennon EJ-160E. It’s an electric acoustic guitar which supposedly produces a Lennon-type sound. I’ve played it a fair bit since yesterday, and like the sound a lot more than the old guitar, so I’m really happy. I’m finally able to play barre chords, since the neck seems a bit narrower and the strings are much closer to it, which is a big plus.

It doesn’t look like the strike at York University will be over by the first week of January, so I doubt I’ll be back in school till mid-January at the earliest. I’m a little bit concerned about how this will affect my medical school applications, but I’m not going to bother worrying too much unless my entire school year is canceled, which I feel is very unlikely to happen.

I’m not going anywhere particular this winter break, but in general, my family doesn’t ever travel much at this time of the year. So I’m just looking forward to continuing to have a nice and relaxing break.

Anyways, what are you doing this winter break? Let me know!

Happy Holidays! =)