New Year, New Blog

The Highs and Lows of Christmas Vacation 2005:
We'll start with the highs.

1. My brother admitted that I have fairly good taste in music.
2. 5 &1/2 hours to Regina! New Christmas record!
3. Wine drinking merriment with my long lost friend and her family.
4. Christmas dinner. Mmm... turkey.
5. Oh the joys of expensive Christmas crackers.
6. Reading stories to the little people.
7. Moccasins
8. Beating Alex and Mum at both Read 'Em and Oxford Dilemna
9. Crepes
10. Pride and Prejudice (Move over Colin, there's a new Darcy in town!!!)
11. Walk the Line
12. Costco Memberships!!!
13. Jazz's booties.
14. Winning $6.00 on the scratch and win tickets.
15. Being lazy.
16. Discovering that the 8 hour drive to Calgary is much more entertaining when you have a 12 year old weiner dog with a gas problem as your only company.
17. Finally visiting the discount book store!

And now the lows.

1. Constantly making Mum cry with my over-use of sarcasm.
2. Too many roadtrips in too little time.
3. Being yelled at by my sister.
4. Having my pleasant movie-watching experience interupted by my sister's persistent text-messaging.
5. Not finishing a single book while I was home.
6. Not accomplishing anything of significance due to my laziness.
7. This just dawned on me now... where were the schwartzies?
8. Sleeping on an air mattress for a week.
9. Unexplicable bad hair week.
10. Not winning way more than $6.00 on the scratch and win tickets.
11. Spending way too much time and money in the discount bookstore.
12. Arriving home and realizing that I need yet another new bookshelf.
13. The freak snowstorm outside of Maple Creek. Both Farty McFarterton and I were scared.
14. Realizing what a shit storm 2006 will be.

And the in between...

1. The bright orange faux silk jammies my mum bought for me. They make me feel like Liberace... which I'm starting to like....

Hope ya'll had yourselves some happy holidays.