My holiday resolution!

Just to show my general enthusiasm for the holiday season, I will be using lots of exclamation points in everything I write!

In the past week, several people have described me to my face as being laid back. I know they mean it as a compliment but they wouldn't say that if they knew what was going on inside my head. I always kind of have two trains of thought going at the same time, one of which is focused on whatever I'm doing at the time, and the other in the background constantly asking, "What the hell is going on?" That second train tends to mute my immediate reactions a bit, because there's always some figuring out of what really is going on.

Since I'm apparently sending out incorrect signals, I will be using exclamation points to denote enthusiasm. Hopefully, this will let people know that I really do have strong reactions, even if they're not obvious. This assumes, of course, that I'm using them honestly and not faking enthusiasm because I have found that it's easier to fake it with an exclamation point than with actual emotions.