All About Christmas.

It is Christmas Eve Eve.  I am excited.  Last night I went to Wildlights with Ashley, Molly and Tyler.  I had it planned so we would have a little over two hours to spend there but I miscalculated what time they closed. We got there with an hour to tour around.  Even though we only got to spend a little over an hour there, I had fun.  I didn’t feel rushed because Molly forbade us to check the time.  Which was nice.  Not worrying over time.

We also exchanged our gifts last night.  I am now officially a landowner in Scotland.  From here on out you may refer to me as Lady Margaret or M’lady.  I won’t answer to anything else.  Oh, I guess Lady Maggie will do also.  Ashley bought me a gift that gives me one square foot of land in Scotland.  It’s pretty sweet.  I am totally visiting it when I go there.  Molly got me a book club membership.  The place kind of ruined it by sending me an email explaining that the book was out of stock.  But I had no clue what was going on and why I was recieving an email for someone named Molly.  So the surprise wasn’t ruined really.  I had even went to the site and found a bunch of books I wanted.  So, once again, perfect gift!

I’m so happy I got to spend a little bit of Christmas week with everyone I love!

Tonight was a good night

I had fun.  I went to the Clark Christmas Party and I have to say, Tyler talked it up to be a lot scarier than it was.  I expected a mob of Clarks crammed in a room as big as my house but really it was two floors of St. Patricks and I even got a seat.  I ate TWO cookies and TWO things of Mt. Dew.  I ate before because I thought we wouldn’t stay long but we ended up staying two hours.  Which is kind of a big deal since we are stingy with our time.  It went well except I was in charge of pictures and I BROKE Tyler’s mom’s camera.  Oh I feel so bad. I accidentally tripped and it flew out of my hands. I felt like some greater force did this. Not me. It still takes pictures but you have to take out the battery to turn it off.  It was such a nice camera too.  Why am I so clumsy? It was even 12 MP. Hopefully it’s just injured and will heal by tomorrow morning.  Ugh.

I have so much to do tomorrow. So many cookies to bake and little crafts to do.  I still have to wrap a gift and I might even be making a late night trip to the store to go shopping.  I am pooped but in a good way. I should be doing all this stuff but I just want to sit here and share with you guys. I am very bad at updating this and I get so upset when I don’t have anything new from everyone else.  But its okay.  You’re getting a post now.  I am making shredded chicken tomorrow.  I love that.  That’s why I’m making it. Nobody else was really taken into account on that decision.  Plus I’m making my tater tot casserole and once again, I was selfish because I love that too.  I was going to bring eggnog but the more I think about drinking that the more put off I am to do it.

I get to play mean Christmas tomorrow. Cross your fingers that I get the gift I bought for it. It’s two games: Connect 4 and Battlefield.

It’s like somebody crapped in my Christmas basket

I’m dying.  Some people say this to express that they have the cold and so on but I really think I am.  It’s like my body thinks it’s 2012 and it’s not on survival mode.  Right now I am very angry at my immune system.  Doesn’t it know that Molly comes home this week and that I have three parties to attend in 2 days?! I don’t think so.  I woke up this morning to find that among this flu/flesh eating disease I have, Mother Nature now saw it fit to bestow an early Christmas gift upon me.  She’s so thoughtful.  Plus I literally have stuff draining out of my nose.  It’s gross and I don’t care if you’re disgusted.  I’m disgusted right now and I feel that you all should share in my misery.  I DON”T WANT TO BE SICK!!!!! I want to be healthy and actually taste the holiday foods and not have to sneeze every 2 minutes.  Which doesn’t help with the drainage problem. I don’t have any tissues and I’m almost out of Ibeproufen.  I’m stuck in this room until Tyler get’s home around 5:30.  Even then I probably won’t want to venture out.  I’ve been taking medicine this morning so hopefully I will be free of this disease tomorrow.  Cross your fingers.

I need to do so much stuff for Christmas.  I still haven’t done my secret santa gift.  How horrible is that? I almost got everyone done except Tyler and my dad.  If I had more money I would probably keep shopping right up til Christmas Eve.  Which  is TEN DAYS! Not counting today.  I love Christmsas.  I love shopping for Christmas and I love watching Christmas movies.  I watched a really “it’s so bad that it’s good” one the other day.  It was on Lifetime and it was called “A Carol Christmas.”  It was about a talkshow host named Carol and it basically followed the story of a Christmas Carol.  Even Tyler liked it.  Every year Tyler and I watch a Christmas movie every night the week before Christmas.  We’ll probably start tonight.  We put all our Christmas presents under our tiny tree and it is packed.  He got me so much and I got him less but I don’t care because I still have to shop.  I even still have a couple of Christmas cards to send.  Why is the post office lame and not sell stamps individually anymore? That’s rhetorical because I know the answer, I’m just upset about it.

Christmas at the Browns Sunday.  This I am super excited for. I can’t wait to just sit around and eat and play games with the 5 people that are my closest friends and many others.  I really hope Amelia is there.  She is too cute.  I have considered stealing her numerous times but then I know that Mrs. Brown would miss her.  So those plans are on hold for now.  It’s bad to say but I actually like her a LOT more than I do my own nieces and nephews.  Who can’t love these two adorable faces?:

I know this post was kind of whiny and I apologize.  Can’t wait to see everyone!

All I want for Christmas is you

Last night I helped Brooke make her Christmas list.  It was fun but it made me realize how Brooke is nothing like I was around this time.  Maybe it’s because she’s always kind of grown up as an only child even though she does have brothers. She only spent one Christmas with Heather and that’s it.  Every other year has been with me and my parents and she’s the only child there.  She doesn’t wake up at 6 in the morning like I used to and sneak into the living room to see how many presents she got.  I ALWAYS have had to wake her up around 9 and even then I get grouched at by her.  I remember the year before last I woke her up at 7:30 because I was just too excited.  It was still dark out and I got a lecture by her telling me that we have to wait til morning. I tried telling her that it WAS morning but she didn’t buy it.  That was the most subdued child.  But last year I think I put a little excitement in her.  I wrote her a note from Santa and we baked cookies and made homemade ornaments for the tree and we even made a gingerbread house.  This year I can tell she’s a little more excited but not like I used to be and still am.  I remember putting 50 things on my Christmas list but she stuck with just 17. I tried to get her to put more but she was adamant about 17.  Oh well.

15 MORE DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Christmas Wish List

1. That Colleen and David get their cabin before Christmas.  Crossing my fingers.
2. I hope I get the present I bought for “Mean Christmas” for Tyler’s family gathering.
3. I want Molly to come home by next Friday so we can drag her away to go shopping with us.
4. That Blackfoot keeps getting better and will live another 15 years.
5. I want Sunny to stop being abused.  Maybe I can find a hotline for that…
6. For Brooke to wake ME up this year.
7. That Tyler gets Wii Sports Resorts and an Xbox Gold Membership from his mom.
8. I want to go sledding and build snowmen and make snow angels and then go have hot chocolate with footie pajamas on.
9. That my mom will continue not smoking and my dad will follow along.  And for my dad to realize beer is disgusting and it is not meant to be drunk at all hours of the day.
10. But most of all, I just want to spend time with the people I love and exchange the best present of all…Friendship.

Okay, that last one was a bit too much but hey, this is my blog,  so deal.

I don’t care about your life

There are only a select few in which I want to know how their day went and the events that transpire in their daily lives.  The people at Biolife Plasma Services is not among these select few.  I absolutely HATE small talk with strangers.  It’s so impersonal that it just makes me twitch.  I gave plasma today and when I went in for my quick exam for iron levels and blood pressure, I got more than I bargained for.  The girl comes in and she asks the basic question, “How are you today?” and I responded with a very normal, “Good, how bout you?”  I guess that was my mistake because she told me all about her Christmas shopping and how she was totally broke because all her boyfriend wanted was expensive stuff and blah blah blah.  I think I tuned her out when she pricked my finger.  I just sat there and said the “Oh” and the “Ah” that was requred of me during that conversation.

I know I’m very antisocial but gosh, I just didn’t even want to hear.  I almost wished that I hadn’t came at all but then I would be out $20.  Don’t people know that strangers don’t care? I mean, seriously.  I don’t get how people can just strike up conversations with people.  It didn’t help me relax and it only made my short stay at there more stressful.  Am I expected to wave to her now when I go there? Are we “friends” now? I hope not.

I haven’t been there in two weeks.  It hurt my arm a lot today.  It cramped up towards the end and the bad thing was that I couldn’t move it to get the stiffness out or else my needle would probably pull out and my blood would splatter everwhere and I would probably get deferred for 30 days or something.  Actually I don’t know.  But it sucked today.

I did go Christmas shopping afterwards which was exciting.  I went into the largest Dollar Tree I’ve ever seen.  It was huge.  The only one’s I’ve been to are in the malls and those are tiny.  I was in heaven; a heaven where everything was a dollar.

Where’s the snow?

Seriously, it’s December.  I have big plans for the snow.  It needs to get here.

I haven’t been up this early in 2 weeks.  It’s crazy because I when school started I was constantly getting up at 7 or 8 in the morning.  Now I sleep til 1 and stay up all night.  Hopefully I will get back on track.

I’m sitting in the Zone waiting for Tyler to get off work.  I came with him today because we are going Christmas shopping!!!!  My life has been very uneventful for the past week and I have been looking forward to this so much.  I’m taking my last check for this month and going shopping.  I love buying people gifts.  I think I would much rather spend my money on my friends and Tyler than spend it on me.  I grew up in a very materialistic household.  We weren’t always well-off and my parents were always focused on stuff.  I was taught that the more stuff you had, the happier you will be.  I grew up wanting and I feel like I try to fill a void.  Weird? Just a little bit.

I think At&t is dying.  I haven’t recieved any texts, tweets, or phone calls. I’m assuming people get my texts and the static during a phone call is horrible.  Ashley and Molly’s right; At&t sucks.  I talked to Molly the other day and it dropped our call like 6 or 7 times! Unless Molly was playing a joke on me, that tower sucks.  Oh well.  I just have another year and Tyler won’t renew the contract.

I’m the only one in here.  Maybe they all died.  I haven’t seen anyone for an hour.  Maybe I subconciously set up a force field around the building not allowing anyone in.  It’s possible.  If that’s the case, since I know I won’t be disturbed, I really want to lie down but this booth was not meant to be a bed.  I’m drinking a sprite which is the worst drink to help keep you awake.  No caffeine.  I should get a pepsi or something but that sounds so gross right now.  Oh, wait, I just saw somebody…I wonder how they got through?

Not Published

So I didn’t post yesterday.  I didn’t forget exactly…I just forgot to publish it.  It was a blog about how my parents are inevitably going to split and how I constantly have to take sides. It’s okay, I won’t bore you with it.  It was a bit too personal to begin with.

Today I cleaned under my bed.  I’m not that type of person that shoves stuff under the bed to make my room look cleaner.  You would think I would be that type but really I just put stuff under there to “store” it.  But today I said goodbye to that and cleaned out 75% of what was under there.  I’m a very sentimental person so I always keep the tiniest thing but when I go on a cleaning kick, I throw everything away.  Then I regret it when I realize that I threw away stuff like my red fez hat that got crushed.  Oh I miss that hat; so many memories attached to it.

I’ve been slowly cleaning my room today.  It’s more like I’m doing it in increments.  I cleaned under the bed and then took a 2 hour break.  Then I cleaned under my desk and now I’m taking a break.  I really don’t even care if it gets cleaned or not.  I will do it eventually.  If not today, then tomorrow.

I sent out my Christmas cards.  Oh wait til you see them.  I’m quite proud of them and I hope they make you laugh which was the intention. We put up our Christmas tree last night.  I have to say that it is the sorriest tree that I have ever seen. But it is quite endearing.  The star is so heavy that it leans at the top and tree defies the definition of “full” .  Then Brooke and I literally showered the thing with Icicle strands.  It’s an ugly kind of beautiful.

Ugh… I need to move out.

Christmas is a pink flamingo with a red santa hat

It’s the 29th.  Nano ends tomorrow and I only have 2500 words.  That’s only 5 percent of what should be done. Is that terrible or what? BUT I’ve decided to extend this deadline, at least for myself.  I am band manager and that is the ultimate power.  So my novel must be done by the end of next month.  That’s doable.  I’m even going to aim for the original 50,000 words this time.  In all fairness I didn’t even start writing until the 16th of November anyways.  It’s only fair that I should get a whole month to do it.  This is a personal goal.  You will be reading my novel by the end of next month.  Do not doubt it.  I still have to read Mrs. Brown’s novel.  She did not need any extensions like I did and she got it done way before the deadline.  She even gets a certificate if she chooses to print it out.  I would totally do it.

December is coming up and that means Christmas is almost here! Ahhh! I’m so excited.  I went out for Black Friday.  It started off terrible because we were leaving at 3 a.m and I didn’t get to sleep until 2 a.m.  I am very cranky when I don’t get at least 6 hours of sleep.  I think my brain checked out that day because I really was only awake by pure adrenaline.  You may chuckle at that but its the truth.  We went to JCPenney first.  They actually opened their doors 30 minutes early.  I was amazed.  I really only wanted to go there for this super cute FREE Mickey snowglobe they give out.  And I got one and I put it next to the one I got last year. I even got one for Ashley.  Then we went to Elder Beerman to look at a gps. I luckily found the only freaking one they had in stock.  Go me! Then on to Walmart we went.  We still had a good hour before their sales started so we went our seperate ways to go wait in line for the items we wanted.  I chose to wait in the line that had the $60 TomTom’s.  It was a hot item.  When the signal was given for the sale to start, people started diving.  They even had to have the cops at that station.  But anyways, I was pushing my way to the front, trying to get a GPS and people just kept on pushing me away.  I’m a short person and I can see how I can easily get shoved away but I got frustrated. My shortness actually helped in this case because I was able to push my way to the front and grab a damn TomTom.  I shouldn’t be proud of this but I am.  I felt somewhat empowered.  I got one whereas other people didn’t.  Ha! to them.  The crappy thing was that we didn’t even get that GPS in the end and instead got the better model. Whatevs.

I did get the number one item on my list and it’s for someone who is probably reading this.  I was very excited.  I even got a sweet A christmas blanket for myself.  I was selfish.  I came home after shopping and went immediately asleep.  I slept for 5 hours until I was rudely awakened by the sound of kids playing in the room next to me.  I really wanted to kick them out of the house but it was raining.  No worries though, I went back to sleep four hours later and slept until 1 p.m the next day.  I was that tired.

 

turkey makes me tired

I just got back from one of the best Thanksgiving’s I have ever had.  It was special and I’m positive it will always stay in my memory as so.  I woke up at 9:30 this morning and I just knew it was going to be a good day.  Tyler wished me a Happy Thanksgiving and I to him but then he said he said it first, which always makes me laugh.  Then I dressed all in black because you know, black is slimming and if I needed any sort of slimming it would be on a day that is full of eating.  We stopped at Circle K and got both papers so we could look at the Black Friday ads.

Hanging out with Ashley is always fun and today was no different.  When I’m home on Thanksgiving, I do everything but carve the turkey.  I hate cooking and cleaning, especially for a bunch of people.  This year allowed me to be lazy.  Helen cooked some pretty amazing food.  Tyler even ate turkey and he’s not much a turkey man but it was that good.  I baked an apple pie but it tasted like smoke.  I literally tasted it.  It was as if I had just taken a cigarette butt from the ashtray and shoved it in my mouth.  Why do my parents have to smoke!? I’m very upset that my pie was ruined because of them.  But whatevs. We made hand turkeys and pilgrim and Indian hats.  It was a great mother fucking day.

I found out that instead of leaving at 3 a.m. for Black Friday, we’re leaving at 10 p.m. tonight because Toys R Us opens up at midnight. Ugh.  I’m tired and I know I should get some sleep but I just don’t want to wake up more tired than I am now.  I’m pretty excited about this and I am hoping I get the deals I want.  Even if I don’t it will still be pretty fun.  Ashley only got 4 hours of sleep last night and since we’re leaving so early, she declined in going.  I was really excited for her to see Black Friday in person but I’d rather her get some much needed sleep.

So HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone.  I’m thankful that you make me a part of your life!

 

Mrs. Brown…

I love you!