I bought myself a Christmas present, er, more like Visa bought me a present, but eventually I will have bought it for myself ;)
I can never remember having a white Christmas, ever, but this year It actually snowed on Christmas.
I can assure you the video will be the biggest waste of 11 seconds of your life, but, I was excited about not only the snow, but my newest toy, which could actually capture the snow, unlike my old piece of crap camera that pretty much sucked in every way. Anyways.... SNOW. WOW. On Christmas?! Yes. Lots of it. Weird, so weird.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I had Christmas eve with my dad, stepmom, and grandma, and spent Christmas with my mom, uncle, aunt, and a few of their friends. I didn't ask for much this Christmas, just a few things to read while putting out there that my camera has seen better days.
My stocking stuffers. Note the box of Nicorette in amongst the rest of the goodies. My dad thought he was pretty funny with that one, while my Grandmother simply said "When you're ready, dear". I couldn't help but laugh.
I must have gotten every book I mentioned. I have a lot of reading to do! Good thing I'm going to have a lot of time on my hands in the next couple of weeks.
Lastly, the only thing I truly wanted. A new digital camera. I absolutley love it. It takes such beautiful pictures. I went from 3.5 megapixel to 7.1.
We're never too old for sleepovers! Tonight I'll be going over to the best's house to spend our "Christmas" together. Tomorrow, to us, will be Christmas morning. Tonight will be filled with mixed drink therapy. I love it.
It took me a lot longer than usual to pick out what to wear this morning, for no reason other than I'm indecisive.
When he saw me he said "Oh, I like your sweater!"
Whether he was referring strictly to the sweater, or implying that he liked the sweater on me, I'll take it.
I guess I chose right.
I decided to try my hand at baking today. I can't cook that well, but I've been baking litteraly since I was born.
When I was younger I spent most of my time with my grandma baking up a storm. I had the traditional grandmother who believed everything should be made from scratch, not from the box. Side note: her maccaroni and cheese is just to die for. Anyways, my grandma's getting older and she's not as able to enjoy making all of those treats from my childhood as she once
was. Last weekend when I was visiting her I asked her for the recipe to her signature Christmas tarts, and today I figured I would try my hand at it. We wont tell her that I got the tart shells already made instead of making the pastry myself. I did make the rest of them, and I'm really proud of the results.
I started by filling each shell with a spoonfull of raspberry jam. I them added the cake mix and cooked it all up. Once they were cool I coated them with butter cream icing, and ate more of them than all of the spots on my body sweets usually go to will enjoy. The result was pretty delicious, if you ask me. My dad and step mom were also very excited about my baking endevour.
Yum! Christmas tarts with a jam layer, topped with a white cake layer and butter cream icing!
What fragrance/cologne do you put on when it's your night out?
Submitted by noiq.
My grades for this past semester are no where near what I am capable of, and I am disappointed in myself. My parents tried to tell me how they were actually good, but dropping my GPA from the 3.s to the 2.s, is not what I would refer to as "good". It was the past three months in combination with school that really did it for me. The break up, the drama, the pain, the alcoholism, and the all over stress. I need to get it together, the way I've been acting is not the way I am. Who would have thought three months later I would still be acting so irrationally?
My courses for next semester are as follows:
SOCI 2235: Social Theory (Mon & Wed 12:00-1:50)
PSYC 3342: Developmental Psychopathology (Tues & Thurs 12:30-2:20)
HUMS 1172: Occidental World Religions (Tues & Thurs 2:30-4:20)
PSYC 2360: Cognitive Psychology (Friday 12:00-2:50)
I'm looking forward to this semester. I'm instilling some faith in myself, lets hope I can get my old self back. One day I'll have recovered from all of this, and find some way to look back on it all and see it as a learning experience. Its just hard to see it all now.
I've been exhausting the hell out of The Spill Canvas lately. I haven't listened to anything else in a couple of days.
When did you really get to make a difference for someone else?
Submitted by bodhibound.
This past semester while I was completing my volunteer hours for Abnormal Psych. at Riverview Hospital. Riverview is a psych hospital community. Years ago it was called Essendale, and functioned almost self sufficiently as a miniature town. Over the past several years a lot of down sizing has happened, and several patients with mental disorders have been put out onto the streets. The population has gone from over a thousand to mere hundreds.
My Volunteering included spending time with patients at a particular ward on the grounds. While I was assigned only one patient, I got to interact with nearly everyone living in the ward. Each Sunday I would spend the afternoon with them, we'd play board games, card games, pool, table tennis, go for walks, have coffee, and sometimes just sit and watch movies. It was the highlight of their day, probably even their week. Many of the patients didn't have family members in the area, some had families which refused to associate with them for one reason or another. Having someone to visit them, even for just a couple of hours each week made all the difference in the world for these people who had been pretty much isolated from the rest of society.
Unfortunatly, at the end of the semester my proffessor informed us that Riverview would be continuing its downsizing by shutting down the volunteer program. I think this is just horrible. At the end of the course we all took the time to write a bit about our experience and explain why we thought they should reconsider. I sincerly hope they do reconsider.
The plan is to make myself useful this week.
Last week was my "OMG IM FINALLY FINISHED SCHOOL LETS NAP" week, or something like it.
Next week both of the wonderful before and after Christmas "holidays" fall on my day, so I'm working 9-5 on Christmas eve, and 11-5 on boxing day Then, the day time receptionist had some of her holidays left to use up, so she took Thursday and Friday off, meaning I'm 8-4 on both of those days Then to top things off I work 9-2 on Saturday, and 11-5 on New Years Eve. I'm always glad to have the extra cash flow, it's just disappointing that with the way the pay periods' cut offs work this month, I wont get to see any of that money until the middle of January. At least I'll have something to pay back the Christmas credit card debt!
So for this week, I made myself a to do list which included all of the things around the house I had been putting off by using the "I'm busy with school" excuse.
Things I did today
- Cleaned the bathroom
- Organized my book shelves, and actually put things away
- Hooked up my cable, nintendo, stereo, etc, after moving them to the other side of the room
- Going through boxes in the garage, organized them.
- Laundry, including bed sheets
- Went through clothes for things I haven't worn in ages.
The list of to dos goes on. I'm also back to the gym now that I have the time. I hate how lazy I get during the semester. I always end up gaining a few pounds and working them off during the break.
Hmmm... there's lots of nicely wrapped gifts under there, I hope one of them is my new digital camera.
