I've always wanted to use that emoticon, now I have the opportunity!

Malcolm would love this holiday, but not as much as me. I love the cold weather and the bonfires and making toast and roasted marshmallows over the flames. Spending it with friends and trudging through the mud and breathing out plumes of smoke. Sparklers and cold water and boom, rockets that shoot up and spray sparkles into the night.
Nothing like it in the world.
I'm done being poetic now, promise. One year I'll get to spend it blowing stuff up with my wife, one year, but last year we were too broke and this year she's gone. One year, though, mark my words.