Only three more days till Christmas. Can you believe it? Amazingly enough, working in an environment that DOES NOT play Christmas music for every hour of every day makes it much easier to be Christmasy. Having completed all my Christmas shopping (and having failed to buy anything the least bit surprising at all for Sean) I will be spending the few remaining shopping days at work or at home. There's no way I'm venturing out to see all the psychos out there. It's really kind of sad how stressed out some people become at Christmas. I did brave the liqour store tonight though, because it really wouldn't be Christmas without dark rum. Thankfully I wasn't ambushed. The person who rang me through asked me some weird questions though.
Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your point of view) I won't be gracing the C-gar with my presence this Christmas. I'm dissapointed to not be seeing family but I am excited to be having my first Christmas (ie. making dinner, having a Christmas tree, etc). Sean and I did buy our first Christmas tree (a fake, abiding by our apartment building rules about fire hazzards) and it is definetly in the Charlie Brown spirit. It totally suits our apartment and it only took one string of lights to light it up. I was a little skeptical when we got it home (it looked significantly better decorated at the Spirit of Christmas Store) but after stringing it with trees, stratigically bending the branches, and adding decorations it looks quite a bit better.
The other dissapointing thing about not venturing home for Christmas is the part where I don't see all my friends there. However, Alie isn't going home either and instead she came to visit me this past weekend. It was sweet times (depsite the Midnight Club DUB edition playing). Sean and I successfully hooked her on We Love Katamari and she helped me finish all my Christmas shopping. There was also much consumption of alcohol and Christmas movie watching. Apparently I didn't see all of National Lampoon's Christmas vacation - but I did make it through Love Actually and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Michaela also came to visit on Saturday, which was a sweet surprise. Sean and I ended up watching Bad(der) Santa with her - not recommended to anybody to watch (as if Billy Bob wasn't scary enough before being Santa). Rewatched the Dark Crystal with her too - and I think I appreciate the movie more now than I did as a small child.
In preperation for my upcoming four days off I have rented 7 movies. I figured I'd better get to the movie store early - because most of the good older movies get rented at Christmas. Infact, I picked out four DVDs, and Sean three. I rented Season 3 of Six Feet Under and am quite looking forward to watching it. I don't think I'm going to brave the Boxing Day shopping (so many people) so I'll be spending it watching Six Feet Under.
Everyone should be looking forward to my New Year's potluck - I certainly am. I'm hoping that quite a few people will be coming (although so far, officially there is me, Sean, Ryan, Carly, and Kim.) I believe Leanne is coming too, and we've invited a few others. Hopefully it turns out to be fun. I'm quite looking forward to some drunken game playing.
Oh Christmas,
make it merry!
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