It's Christmas Time in the City
Yes. It's that time of year again. All the stores are extending their hours and no one seems to work anymore because they are all shopping. Oh and let's not forget the decorations, yummy meals and annoying singing teddy bears that sing about how they "wanna do something for Santa Clause, he's done so much for me"...oh dear, not that song is going to be in my head all night.
I have my list and i have checked it twice. I need to get on some shopping and creating and baking. i got some done today so i'm a little bit closer to being done. i'm coming home to Toronto on Saturday and my mom is going to help with the creation of some of the pressies :) i'll also be a baking away and relaxing then it's JaniePoo's Christmas concert at her school on Wednesday night and after that i'm back to Ottawa for a ton of babysitting and the Bradley Family Christmas Dinner! yumm.
Our house had it's Christmas dinner last friday night and it was yummy and tons of fun. Erin baked a cake which we named Snowbert - it was quite amazing, it was a snowman that stood up...well until Tara's crazy dancing knocked it over. We had a turkey that we named Buster with potatoes and stuffing and gravy and mmmmmm, i'm getting hungry just writing about it. There was even a small Christmas trees that our secret santa pressies went under and some holiday decorations...i just noticed today actually that we have a wreath! i'd say that was Erin's doing. she takes care of making sure we're all sufficiently festive.
After dinner, we setteled in to watch the old school version of Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer and had a very university like conversation around the topic of cultural representations and sexism in the film. You really should take another look at it, i think a university feminism class would go to town with it.
Sadly, one of our housemembers couldn't join us due to an illness in the family, but she was there in spirit.
one thing that i am none too pleased about is the fact that i start back to school on January 2nd. that's insane. it means i will have to get up and drive back to ottawa on New Year's Day. boo-urns (and i don't even really know what that means - not a Simpson watcher).
on an unrelated note, Thomas bought me an AMAZING Oriental serving plate. it's very classy, not unlike him. haha. Thanks babe!
