It's officially Christmas in my time zone! Getting up in about 9 hours to open presents, already went to Christmas Eve mass and had a fabulous dinner. I seriously love being home; almost wish I wasn't going back to school, but that's a whole month away anyway. Besides, I have ALWAYS loved Christmas. It's a happy holiday that makes me feel like a kid again! Though, this year my brother and I are officially too old to open our first present Christmas Eve, a tradition started because he and I were too impatient to wait til morning.

So two days ago I dyed my hair BLUE (yes, blue. *R-H-MacLanahan says I look like I fell in a pool) in between a dentist appointment and an eye appointment. Hopefully I will be able to tell that the t-shirt ten yards away has a pocket on it before I go up and pull my arrows out of it... longish story there. There was no one wearing the t-shirt, so no fears bout me going to jail for murder/manslaughter.

Yesterday I went to the mall with two of my girl friends. We went to see The Princess and The Frog (which I LOVED, by the way. Want to worship the people who wrote it, as well as the woman who provided Tiana's singing voice cuz she's got major skills) and, naturally, we dressed up. I was wearing my prom/princess dress with a tiara and my newly-blue hair, my friend Danielle was a badass Tinkerbell with leather kneelength boots, a green dress and fairy wings, and my other friend Kelsey was Malevolence from Sleeping Beauty. Danielle had temporary green streaks in her hair and Kelsey had temporary purple streaks in hers. We got stares, comments, lots of little girls looking very excited and whispering to parents, and even an older lady waving us over to make her very elderly mother happy. It was awesome.

Now I'm still awake (at nearly 1AM on Christmas Eve, now) listening to the Princess and the Frog soundtrack (which I bought right after seeing the movie, along with a book for my dad's present) sitting by the gas fireplace and trying to decide between going upstairs to retrieve my phone from my coat pocket or just going to bed. If I wasn't sitting on the floor with the overhead light still on, I might just fall asleep right here.

So to everyone, whichever winter-y holiday you celebrate (Christianity with Christmas, Pagan peoples with Yule/Winter Solstice, Jewish with Haunaka even though I'm incapable of spelling it correctly, and whoever celebrates Kwanzaa with... Kwanzaa) have a wonderful holiday and stay safe. East Coasters, don't die in the snow, same with the Midwesterners who are getting snow now-ish (yes? Haven't paid much attention to the news last couple days...), South-living people, you know you wish it actually got cold in winter (and 50 degrees is NOT cold. Below 0 is cold!) and people who live where I do... sorry bout no white Christmas, I think I may know who could be affecting that.

Oh, and sorry to everyone about how long it's been since my last update. School got hectic and hateful and I've been sooo super homesick and there has been absolutely nothing of note going on in my life except for possibly flunking all my classes, thinking of dropping out and deciding to transfer closer to home for next schoolyear. And since I probably won't be updating before New Years', Happy 2010 to everyone, we got 2 years left til the apocalypse! (Just kidding, I don't believe in the 2012 prophecy, mostly because I refuse to have wasted my entire life in school, or that the world will end on my mom's 51st birthday since technically, the prophecy is for Dec. 21, 2012)