Holiday Love

Merry Christmas everyone. :)

And I hope you have a Happy New Year as well.

My presents have been pretty sweet so far... but right now, I'm going to take a nap while my kitty is sleeping on my toesies.

Much love! And kisses, and hugs, and such.

Mwuah! :D

O Come All Ye Faithful...

Well, it's Christmas Eve. :)

I think I have like five minutes before my mom is going to be knocking down my door so I can go help her clean.

Oh yay. :P

I just wanted to say, on this day before Christmas, that I love y'all. :)

And in case I don't get to post tomorrow...

Merry Christmas!

Only In My Life

HA.

Nothing is quite as amusing as getting a drunken phone call....

From your parents. :P

My parents had a Christmas party in Escanaba tonight for Dad's work, and they rented a hotel room so they could drink if they wanted to and not have to worry about getting a ride home, since Esky is an hour away.

And my mother, who never drinks, apparently got effin' WASTED.

As her phone call would attest. :P

Man, she was giggling, laughing her ass off, talking loudly and being generally effin' hilarious. Dad kept trying to take the phone from her and apologizing to me for letting her get on the phone, because he can hold his alcohol better than she can.

I only wish I had been there so I could have scored some money, as both of them are a slight more generous when inebriated.

That was seriously one of the funniest damn phone calls I've ever gotten in my entire life.

I am pretty sure I will be holding this over their heads for....

Oh, about forever. :D

Heeeeeeeeeee.

Good News, Bad News

Good news: I still have my library job. Even though I no longer have work study, I can continue to be employed and make money.

Bad news: I got my grades today. My GPA is taking a major hit.

Good news: It was nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be.

Bad news: I'm still in danger of being put on academic probation for the next year... though with this incoming semester I could pull myself out of danger.

Good news: I watched Elf today and made a new icon. :)

Bad news: I have so much laundry and crap to do it's ridiculous.

Good news: I did the dishes and folded a load of towels, so my mommy is happy with me. :)

Bad news: ... my knee still hurts. :( And is now scabbing up and throbbing slightly. Ouchies.

Good news: I'm not dead! YAY FOR NOT BEING DEAD!

Baaaaah. I Am A Sheep.

I'm following the crowd! :D That's right ladies... here's my 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting To Know Your Friends!!

Your Name: Amanda :)

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot chocolate with marshymallows. Cause egg nog is gross.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wrap of course! Though we don't get presents from "Santa" anymore, because my parents like to systematically destroy my childhood.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Colored on the tree, white on the house. But not blinking. I do not like seizures.
4. Do you hang mistletoe? Nope. Though dammit, I should. I need some kissage. ;)
5. When do you put your decorations up? Usually it's the beginning of December... now we wait till I get back from school to do it. Well. Kinda. Last year my mom didn't put up a tree because nobody would help, but this year I'm going to secretly do it myself. BWUAHA. Hopefully they'll like it. :)
6. What is your favorite holiday dish? My grandma's spritz cookies. She used to make them every year... except that she passed away around Thanksgiving last year. My sister and I knew that my dad would be kinda sad, since it would be the first Christmas without Grandma, so we made the cookies from her recipe. When him and Mom came home and saw that we had made her cookies, they cried. That's one of my favorite holiday memories, despite the bittersweet tone to it.
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: Well, I have a lot. The above is one of the tops, but I also loved last Christmas in which my parents bought me a print of Starry Night for my room. I always said, since I was little, that I wanted Starry Night to hang over my bed. And they made that dream come true. I also love the Christmas that I was six or seven, and Mom and G-Ma took us kids to see Santa. We have it on tape... Abby freaked out, since she hated men and strangers, Jake was just a baby and he just layed there all adorable grinny baby like, and I was the fucking awesomest kid ever. I asked for a Nickelodeon Colorwrite, and dammit I GOT IT. Word.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I think I was like seven... my mom sat me down since some kids had told me that Santa didn't exist, and I was sad. She told me that while Santa may not exist as a person, his spirit lived on in the children and parents all over the world who believed in him and wanted to bring happiness. In my heart of hearts, I like to believe that Santa does exist... in our hearts.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yep, always. And usually I end up opening some clothing gift or something... which sucks, because I always try to open a book so then I'll have something to do that night. What can I say, I read a metric ton as a child. Still do, heh. Got like three books I'm currently reading. :)
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? We have colored lights strung from top to bottom, and it's covered with all our ornaments... the crappy paper and cardboard ones that we made as kids, the memento ones with "Baby's First Christmas", etc... and my personal favorites, the gag ones, with the funny reindeer and the Star Trek Enterprise shuttle that when you push a button, Spock's voice comes out. My dad is a bit of a Trekkie... Live long and prosper!
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? FUCKING LOVE SNOW. For Christmas. But it can get tiresome pretty quickly. But when there is a fresh snowfall, and the air is still, and under the streetlamps the snow glistens like a million bits of glitter... I love it all over again. Like Lorelai Gilmore, I live for the first real snowfall.
12. Can you ice skate? No. :( I've always wanted to, but never gotten a chance to learn. ONE DAY!
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? That's so difficult, since I love every thing I've ever been given... I think my favorite gifts are the ones made for me. The jewelry my mom has made, the scarf she crocheted for me... My grandma was crocheting a blanket for me and died before she could finish it. We haven't found the unfinished blanket among her stuff yet, but if we do, and I can get it completed, I think that would be my favorite present ever.
14. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you? The sense of family. So many times, I feel like I'm the only one who really likes being around my family and having that togetherness. Considering that I'm the most emotionally connected in my family, sometimes I have to turn to my family of friends to get that holiday spirit. Sometimes I swear my family is emotionally dead inside. :P
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Christmas cookies with milk.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Watching Rudolf and the Grinch, etc. (BUMBLE!!!)
17. What tops your tree? An angel currently, though we've had a star before.
18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? I do like getting gifts, but nothing makes me happier than to see someone else be happy from a gift I've given. I'm the worst person to give gifts though, as I always want to give it the second I've purchased it for the person. I hate waiting. :P
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? I don't think I can choose... though I love the traditional religious songs. That's the one part of my Catholic upbringing that I will never abandon. Though currently I can't stop listening to O Holy Night (the version played on Studio 60) and Carol of the Bells.
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? Yum. :)

Oh The Drama Mama

Well, I haven't posted in here in like... forever. God, LJ is just easier for me to use.

Plus? LOTS OF ICONS. Come on people... you want LJs... ;)

Effin' drama, don't need it!

So yeah. Just chillaxin' for now... earlier, Mom wanted us out of the house (she totally was doing presents or something, so Babs, Jake and I went out for dinner at Holiday. And Gene was working, and he gave me a big hug, and pretty much told me that he'd make sure I would get some hours. :)

So yay for me!

The more hours I get, the better because Albion keeps fucking me up the ass and I need the money.

Especially since now my work study is GONE.

Fucking Albion, you wouldn't let me use all my loan, and then you took away some of my work study, and now it is GONE and I could lose my library job!!

I HATE YOU ALBION.

(Plz don't ruin my grade point five hundred times... I beg of you.)

:(

Albion just ruins my good mood EVERY TIME. Why do you suck so much school? WHY?!