Romantic?

I think that it would be sweet if a girl with a blog got a new boyfriend and he stayed up late reading all her blog entries (even to the earliest one in the archives) because he wanted to get to know her more.

Special Christmas Edition

Secret Santas with my Girls

I'd like to share a couple excerpts from my gift. Morgan made me A How To Book for the Modern Girlfriend. All the topics are based off the real-life adventures of Morgan and I. Two modern girlfriends can like the same guy if they follow the basic pattern outlined in "How to Crush on the Same Guy at One Time"*:

• Ask friend if she would mind if you dated guy
• After a satisfactory answer, tell friend that he already asked you out [and you said yes]...
• Through means of a note...
• In art class
• Enough said

* absolutely essential in junior high- once this phenomenon is known, cease all discussion on the topic due to the inevitable fact that cat fights will ensue should the phenomenon be discussed

This entry called "How to Go to Church" shows how a modern girlfriend attends a church service:

• Proceed as normal
• Fart the worst fart of your life
• Blame it on your friend
• Hope the rest of the congregation (in its entirety) blames it on said friend

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we usually go to another local church instead of our regular church, because they have a really nice Christmas Eve service. They have two services, one early kids one (with dramas and story time) and then a later, reflective service. We went to the late one. The organ music through out the service was nice, but very somber and almost sad. I didn't know like any of the songs. I think I was just hoping to be part of a not-so-ceremonial celebration of Christ's birth. The Christmas story is exciting and wonderful. This makes me wonder if people who don't go to church regularly, but periodically attend a really traditional church, think that God is impersonal. Maybe most of this is just my own preference. I saw one of my early childhood friends there. We were two peas in a pod from grade primary until grade 1 or 2 and we lifeguarded together at the pool. Her brother was one of the first boys I had a crush on. I had crushes very young. I didn't say anything to him when I said hi to her last nite. I noticed that she still had a tag on her jacket, so I told her about it after the service. She said, "sh**!" and yanked the tag off. That was the first time I ever heard someone curse in church. I have to admit, I thought it was pretty funny.

Christmas Day

My family slept in until 10:30am, much to the chagrin of my brother. Most of my gifts were practical things that I needed and picked out myself. When it comes to clothes, I think that's the only way to do it, because it's so hard to tell if things will fit a person right or if they will like them. My favourite things were my brown purse and my pink pjs. Tonite, we are planning on playing some games and watching some movies. I like spending time with my family over the holidays. Oh, and on non-holidays :).

C4C Winter Conference

All my support $$ came in last night! I can finally be excited to go. I'm really excited! And so thankful. In the last couple years, I've been having to trust God for things like money, and it's hard to do. He always works things out for us. Whenever I find myself doubting that God will provide for me or my family, it's usually because I don't want to hope for something and then be disappointed. I have been worrying about things way too much. I'm going to stop worrying. That will be my New Year's resolution.

"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7

Notable Christmas Eve Quote:
"So I guess that was the emo service..." - Josh

Car Ride

I just had a nice time with my mom. We spent the evening picking up some groceries and getting other things for Christmas. We had a good talk in the car about God and stuff. There was a lot of sharing and relating to each other going on. Very positive :).

I can dig it.

Holiday Tunes

Last year's favourite: My Only Wish (This Year) by Britney Spears :)

This year's favourite: A Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney

My perma-favourite: O Come, O Come Emmanuel

The Nativity

Here are some thoughts that I had while I was watching this movie:

1. Travelling to Bethlehem must have been an important relationship-developing/bonding experience for Mary and Joseph.

2. It's so cool that the only ones that angels told about the birth of Jesus were plain old shepherds.

3. Thinking of God as a baby or a kid seems so odd.

4. The wisest men around believed that Jesus was God.

5. I want a pet lamb.

We Like To Move It

Saturday Nite:
1. make up a la Amarea
2. pretty photo shoot
3. glasses case to the head
4. red lights = optional
5. mmmm, nachos
6. venue search
7. impromptu HCA reunion
8. groove = on

Happy 21st Amarea, my lovie!

Where ARE My Sneakers?

I really can't remember the last time I exercised. That is so bad. I'm going to start running again. Tomorrow, maybe.

Secrets

I have a journal that I write in sometimes. I usually write in it when I am really mad, or really sad, or really happy about something. I also write when I have an idea that seems profound to me or if I want to remember special memories. There are pages and pages devoted to things like our high school musical Hood, our grade 12 trip to Quarterdeck, and things like that. Recently, I've started journalling during my quiet times with God. I really like it. I'll write out prayers, things that stick out to me when I'm reading, or just my own thoughts about myself and God. It's nice to go back and look at what you felt and thought, instead of just forgetting about most of it.

I started my home-made Secret Santa gift today. I planned it out and did half of it. I'm excited to see what it will look like when it's done. I felt artistic and rather domestic while I was working on it. It's going to be gray and burgundy.

DONE!

Ah, I am done my exams! I am so looking forward to this break. It's finally time to relax.

Some things to do before Christmas:

1. Sleep in.

2. Decorate the house.

3. Make my Secret Santa present.

4. Go see The Nativity Story or The Holiday.

5. Celebrate Amarea's birthday on Saturday.

6. Wrap presents.

7. Have a snowball fight or make a snow woman.

8. Eat a candy cane and drink egg nogg.

Exam #4

Evolution Final: A Charles Darwin and a half.

Exam #3

Literary Landmarks Final: As good as watered down creativity usually goes.

Riddle

Today is a special occasion! What is it?? Well, here's a clue: it calls for someone to take 21 pieces of cheese, think they are butter, and try to grease a pan with them ;)!

Happy Birthday Morgan :)!! I love you.

Exam #2

Modern Global History Final: 2 Industrial Revolutions way up.

Exam #1

Plant and Animal Diversity Final: 6 Echinoderms out of 10.

All I Want for Christmas Is You

A few things have gotten me in the mood for Christmas:

1. Getting my family some gifts on sale during Midnite Madness
We're going SHOPPING! Wahoo, Shopping!! Yeeeeeeah, Okaaaaaaay!

2. C4C's Christmas party
So apparently the Mark's extreme mints that I put in my Yankee Swap gift "taste like sh*t". A co-worker informed me of this after I gave them away at the Christmas party, heh :).

3. Christmas music at work

4. THE SNOW
The first snow of the year came today! When I first realized it was snowing, everything outside was covered in a thick and sparkly layer of white and golf ball sized snowflake bunches were falling from the sky! It was very pretty and put me in a good mood. The journey home was long. I left Dal at 3pm, took a bus, walked under my fluorescent umbrella to HCA, and finally got home at 8pm. I actually like walking in the snow with an umbrella...everyone was doing it.