merry christmas everyone!!!!!

I've had a really lovely holiday actually :D Liz and I worked in the morning, but then we were loose to have fun!! I made dinner for me, Liz, and Pat, and then the three of us started working on Christmas cookies. so far we've done whirligigs, sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, and gingersnaps :D

or rather, we made cookies until midnight hit so we could open gifts XD which went over well!!! I got Liz a bunch of nice stuff, and we got Pat some really...bad......kingdom hearts metal figures & breath of the wild. they're official figures but they're also just so fucking weird looking. they were a great find and Pat loved them, which is the important part.

oh I guess I also got really good gifts, but giving gifts was kinda the best part this year!!! ♥

then today we went to DC to spend time with Liz's family!! everyone was running late, so us being late cause we had to get coffee and mcdonald's beforehand wasn't a big deal. it wasn't too bad, just a lot of loud and somewhat awkward family time.

after that, we did our actually fun xmas tradition!! Pat, Liz, and I went out for Korean BBQ and pigged out on delicious, delicious meat :D

( christmas pics!!!! )

so I work retail, if that wasn't clear already from the whole selling sex toys for a living thing. anyway!! I love my job and I love the company that I work for, but hot damn if the holidays aren't crazy as fuck.

wednesday was oddly slow but today is definitely making up for it >< I'm working 10 hours tonight and then 8+ tomorrow probably, depending on if my coworker wants me to help her some with the evening shift due to, you know, it being fucking busy as hell.

on the plus side, we got the christmas tree up and decorated yesterday!!!! somehow we lost the tree topper a couple years ago??? so we finally got a new one that I'd been eyeing up at Kmart...mostly because it looks like a fucking kingdom hearts attack. like, I feel like Xemnas is about to attack us thru the tree star, and I love it :D

I also managed to straighten up around the house some yesterday, which is always an accomplishment. I decorated a little on the tv stand and made my desk not a complete mess. so all in all, good things!

( some cleaning & decoration pics!! )

I still have to wrap presents, but the rest of Liz's gifts haven't arrived yet. so hopefully I'll be able to do that tonight or tomorrow after work!!! :D

Blargah. I hate my internet service D: I haven't had internet for the past two days...and it's still only slightly working D: Verizon said it should be fixed within a few more days, but AGH. AGH. I hate Verizon, I've had nothing but troubles from them (with the internet AND my cell phone) but my mother insists on them, for some reason.

Anyway! It's been awhile D: Before the internet death, I was just super busy working. GameStop = crazy during the holidays. I worked 23 hours last week O_O That's crazy, I've never had a job like this before~ But I love it, so it's good.

Christmas was pretty good. I got a $50 gift card for eBay and some other small things. The gift card was the best :3 I spent it on Axel and Roxas figures. I'll finally have the complete set :D And then last night I spent the last of it a pretty corset top thing (I had to spend some of my own money on that, as well). My aunt got my PotC3, which made me SO HAPPY. I love that movie and the memories that go with it ♥

I saw Patti on Friday, which was awesome. It was a spur of the moment thing, which made it even better. I hadn't expected to see her until new years' eve, so it was a lovely surprise. We watched some movies (Sleepy Hollow and the first half of the Fellowship of the Ring) and ordered Chinese. It was just, oh, amazing. I love being with her. And movies are awesome, we get to cuddle and such :D

Then new years' eve was awesome as well. We went out for lunch and then saw Sweeney Todd. My gosh, I fucking love that movie now. I've been listening to the music almost nonstop since then. It's so sad and just so, so good. After the movie, we went to Barnes & Noble until my parents could pick us up.

We went back to my house and watched The Corpse Bride. My dad randomly has all these DVDs (like, 50 of them) and I didn't know this until this past weekend. wtf. Anyway, after that my parents and brother decided to go to a party at their friend's house, leaving the house to us. We finished watching FotR and talked until about 5 minutes before midnight, at which point my parents came back.

So, then we watched the ball drop and drank champagne. And kissed at midnight ♥ I never thought I'd have anyone to be with and now I have her, and it is just so, so wonderful. I am so happy all the time :D

Tomorrow I'm getting my hair cut at a nice salon as one of my birthday presents. Oh, yes, my birthday is in less than a week! I'll be 18 on the 8th :D I'm so excited! Patti's coming over on Saturday and my mom's making a nice dinner. Usually we go out somewhere, but we can't afford it this year. Ah, well. It'll still be nice, my mother is an amazing cook.

Mmmkay, so that's all for now :D I hope I get my internet fixed soon >_>