Christmas at Dads

This Christmas, I spent a week at my dads and his girlfriends house out in Slave Lake, AB. I have been there a few times before, but only spent a day or so each time, and didn't get a chance to really get to know my dads girlfriend or her kids. I'm a shy person, so it takes me a while to really feel comfortable around new people, but I actually had a good time visiting there, even with people I didn't really know. Maybe it was because I had a few days to get used to the household before the majority of the kids showed up, or the fact that my younger brother was there too, but I felt pretty at ease most of the time.

I was really worried about going. I didn't want to feel left out, or like I was intruding on my dads other family's holiday. To be honest, the first few days before Christmas was the most fun. It was very relaxing, and despite being away from my computer and games, and all my stuff, I was rarely very bored. My dad and I watched some old Christmas videos that we used to watch when I was young, we went out with my brother and had a nice time shopping and just talking and catching up. And I actually had a fun time watchinga busy little 2 year old.

At my moms place we rarely eat meals together, and when we do, it doesn't quite feel the same as a big family meal all around a table. Of course, that could be due to the fact that we all work different hours, and that we don't have a kitchen table since our house is too small, so we use wooden dinner trays and sit at the couch. But it was nice to sit around a table with everyone talking, and laughing, and then all sitting around for a few minutes afterwards and just relaxing before cleaning up.

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Christmas (and random) Adoptables 2009!

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Christmas Excitement

I'm really, really excited about today (and tomorrow!). I think this is the first year that I've genuinely felt excited about Christmas, and spending time with my family. For a long time I was just excited about what new presents I'd be getting, or getting time off from school...but this year I'm just excited to spend time with everyone. When I think of Christmas, I keep thinking of everyone sitting around in Daphne's apartment and watching a movie and laughing, or some of us playing a board game...I don't know, I just feel really happy that we're not having a bunch of seperate Christmas' or something.
I really hope we end up watching a movie, or playing board games or something...I really want this Christmas to be fun and memorable for some reason.

Christmas Adoptables

Bwahahaha, so I just found some christmas adoptables, so I'm going to stick them all here!

December 23, 2007

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New Layout & Christmas Excitement

Quick Note: This is from my old diary which was hosted on Diaryland. I went back and took a screenshot, since I'm still proud of how I got that layout to look. lol

Oh joy! New layout! It actually took me hours to make this. Well, sort of. I made like 4 different versions, and ended up liking this one best. The bunny is so cute! His ears are a bit messed up, since I'm obviously not good at editing pictures, but I tried! I also cut off part of his one ear because it looks so bad and I couldn't make it look normal. So, that's why his whole ear isn't in the layout. xD
And I had a lot of fun picking out a font for this...I had about 4 different ones in mind, but this is one of my new fonts, so I really wanted to use it for something. I dunno if it matches or anything (like a bunny with an eye patch matches with a pink scheme) but whatever! I like it. I think it's called Floydian, and if you noticed, it looks like the Pink Floyd font!


I'm so happy that I went Christmas shopping! I felt really bummed out about Christmas, and was very "Bah humbug!"-ish about it, but since I went Christmas shopping on Monday I feel all excited about it! I didn't really have enough money to get anyone anything really good, or what they really wanted, but it's the best I can do. I wanted to get Daphne and Dan something really cool, but had to change my mind, because then I'd have to get everyone else even crappier stuff. Blah, not cool. And I still have to get something for mom and Gary as it is, and I have absolutely no idea. Mom did point out this little water fountain thing at Canadian Tire that's $14, and I could have gotten them something else cheap to go along with it, but mom has the last of my $$ on her debit card and I always mess up her numbers...so I'll just have to ask her to take that money out of her account so I can get their present!
I can't get anything for Nate..but he said a million times that he doesn't want anything, and won't give me ideas...so I guess I won't. I really want to get him something, I feel really bad. But, knowing him, he'd send back anything I get him. Or sell it and send back the money without telling me or something. -_-;;

Christmas '06

So, we got up around 7:30 to open our presents (though I don't think we actually started unwrapping any until maybe 8-ish?). Everyone seemed pretty pleased with what they got, though I felt a bit bad for Dan because he didn't really get anything...except that gift certificate for Future Shop. But, I guess it's alright because a lot of the things are actually meant for both of them (toaster, coffee maker..etc).
Jonathon didn't really seem too excited about his guitar, and I haven't even noticed him play with it today...so I don't really know if he's happy about that or not. He seems to be enjoying his new DBZ game though, so that's great.

And now, for what I got! I hope I don't forget anything.

[+] Penguin slippers
[+] Penguin robe
[+] Penguin soap..dispenser thing
[+] MP3 player
[+] Keyboard
[+] Guild Wars
[+] Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town
[+] Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire DVD
[+] The Chronicles of Narnia
[+] Penguin bookmark

I'm pretty sure that's everything. I feel like I'm forgetting something though. Hmm. Oh, and the Chronicles of Narnia book...is the huge one, with all the books combined. It's so great! <3

Dad and Jonathon are leaving for Saskatchewan tomorrow. So I get the house all to myself! I'm pretty happy about that. When mom found out, she said, "Well you should really get out." ...blah. I don't know why she always says that (well, I sorta do, but eh. I wish she'd stop saying it). It's really frustrating for me when she does that. As nice as it is to go out and do things with people (sometimes..), it's also great to have time completely by myself! And I don't mind staying home and looking after the puppies. I'm comfortable with that.

Christmas Eve?!

Christmas eve. Why doesn't it feel like it? I'm already in a pretty crappy mood, and still feel pretty sick. I'm trying to be cheerful and happy, but it's not exactly working. -_-;
I think I'm more excited for Daphne and Dan to come than anything else. Things are always so much more fun when Daphne is around.

Anyways, yesterday I got FF9, and a webcam! Except...dad and Jonathon picked out the webcam, and it only works with MSN. Which is stupid, because I hate MSN. It has this thing for Yahoo, but it doesn't actually work or something. Anyways, me and Natey had fun. I was trying not to smile, because I don't like my smile...so he purposely said things to make me smile..then I couldn't stop smiling. :P Then we showed each other a bunch of random things...like first he showed his foot. So I showed mine, then he showed a game, so I showed a game...and it was just silly. :D

Christmas at Mom's

Exhausted. Why do I wake up so early to talk to Nate before he goes to bed? Well, I don't wake up early on purpose. It just happens sometimes, and Nate is online in the mornings for a bit now, so it's a good time to talk to him. Mostly.
Right now he's obsessed with Flyff, so that's all he'll talk about. It's kinda cute in a way, because he sort of babbles about it, until I mention how cute it is that he's babbling about it, then he quits. :D

Anyways, we got home from mom's last night. It was actually pretty good. We watched Ice Age, went out to Boston Pizza, watched Godzilla and The Devil Wears Prada, and Dead Mans Chest (yes, lots of movies).
And I got some pretty cool stuff from mom, TWO pairs of slippers. One pair is purple, and the other pair is yellow with a cute little penguin on them. They're so comfy! And I got pajamas and socks that match with the slippers. Very yellow. I think these are my only yellow clothes now...but the penguin is so cute! Oh yeah, and a big cup that matches with the pajamas too. I got some lip chap, and some bath stuff, three cool basket things, cute socks (christmas and penguin-ish), guitar strings, chocolate, a BARBIE, (if we want to get technical, I think this is the real..name: 2006 Bob Mackie Holiday™ Barbie® Doll [Yes, I had to look that up])...and, I got an awesome Johnny Cash cd set..thing! It really is cool, it has a dvd in there too! And hm. I guess that's mostly everything (I'm just too lazy to go look to see what else I got).
It was actually more fun than I thought it would be, except for yesterday, I woke up with a headache, but it was really bad by the end of the day even though I took tylenol. I still even have a bit of a headache, but not near so bad now. Anyways, me and mom also got to pick something up for Daphne! Which is good, I wanted to get her a little something extra.