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home for christmas: the world's greatest thing. this past week, i have had the time of my LIFE. i got home last thursday night, and as soon as i stepped inside my house.. it was like ahhh: this huge blanket of comfort.
i was instantly fed food to fill my belly, and i haven't felt hungry since i've been home. thursday night was spent with dale and my family.. catching up ... and unpacking and enjoying my BED. ooh how i missed it's bigness and comfortableness. my parents decorated my room all pretty with white lights, and a bit of christmas things.. and there was magazines by my bedside for good reading..

friday i had a dentist's appointment, and afterwards dale and i went shopping for gingerbread house candies..
then i had lunch with nicole at hotshots (YUMMM).. hehe. then i went to see lauren and received the most clever book from her for my xmas presssent. then a family dinner (home cooked meal.. delicious.. it was a feast!).. and afterwards there was decorating of sugar cookies, and icing of peppermint pennies. annnnd.. then dale and i watched the curse of the zodiac (soo good.. the one with jake gyllenhaal)

saturday.. i had to work at dq.. and it was sort of fun! and then saturday night was christmas dinner at jake's .. with lots of good food, drinks, and catching up with some girlies. however, we got kicked out early.. so most of us headed out to the bar and i had a hoot as i slammed back five vodka slimes.

sunday.. i woke up incredibly HUNG over, and i had to work at eight.. so that was a bit of a struggle.. however, i had lexa with me.. so we tiredly did our shift together, and were done at 2. after that, dale, james, and i decorated gingerbread houses. james' was actually quite nice, and lasted. dale and i had some trouble with ours, because it collapsed as soon as we had built it! jeeze.

sunday night i went out for dinns with the ladies (tash, lauren, and nicole.. and chels was our waitress!) .. so that was good, and then after dinner dale and i watched a chevy chase movie. and i think i fell asleep because of my tiredness from the previous night of a 4 hour sleep.

monday brought a day off.. and lots of last touches for christmas. i spent most of the morning wrapping presents, and then the afternoon delivering them.. and picking up a few more things. at 2 pm, we headed over to the Taylor's for our annual christmas eve lunch/dinner. it was delicious we ate soup and other yummy things, and then opened some presents. after that, my family watched the santa clause 3, and i fell asleep during it..
we headed off to church around 7:30, and it was a nice christmas service as usual.. afterwards our family played cranium and ate lots of goodies.
then dale came over, and we had our own little christmas .. it was really special.. but we spent most of the time assembly my shield for my ipod.. hehe.

christmas day was really nice too: i woke up around ten, and we did stockings, then ate the best christmas breakfast.. and then opened the rest of the presents. i was lucky and got the winter jacket i really wanted, and books (YAY), and some money and stuff for shopping this upcoming saturday. dale came over around noon and opened his presents from my parents.. and then james and i headed to dq to serve christmas dinner to those less fortunate. we stayed there until about 5.. and then headed over to the Van Camp's for dinns. the usual crowd was there.. and it was pretty fun.. we ate, drank, and played games.
after dinner, i went up to dale's house to visit with his family.. we drank wine and laughed a lot.

boxing day. my mom and i hit up the superstore, and got some great deals on hats and tights..we also picked up some things for our fondue.
i had to work from 4-7.. then had dinns with my mom
afterwards i went to hang out with nicole for a bit.. and then i got together with dale..
we started at the casino.. and lost money.. so then we headed back to his house to grab a movie, but ended up going to bp to get some chow.. and then over to the bar to see a few people. but it was lame, so we left after like 15 minutes.. we ended up just coming back to my house to watch bits of a movie, and then we both fell asleep...
we woke up around 3:30.. and i was so out of it.. that i couldnt stop laughing when dale tried tried to wake me up.. his hair was all out of place.. and he kept saying.. i just wanna sleep here forever.. but he ended up going home.. and i fell into a deep sleep.

today: i woke up really early, and had a tea date with beanie.. we caught up on everything but then had to say our goodbyes. i am going to miss her.
then chels came over, and we had tea too! we also caught up on our lives.. and chatted into the middle of the afternoon...
then my family and i all headed to dq to pick up cheques, and then to the bank..
afterwwards nicole and i went to hotshots to grab a smoothie and discuss the latest gossip hehe. we saw mec for a few minutes, so that was really nice... and afterwards i said goodbye to nicole too..
then i headed over to tasha's to deliver some goodies, and say bye. frick tash is always hard to say bye to.. and so it was sad leaving her again..

aaaaaaand then we had our fondue, and this year dale joined us, and it was really fun.. but i was stuffed to the BRIM. after dale and i went to dq to pick up my other cheque and some icecream for the boys back at my house.. then dale went home, and the taylor's and my family played 'Things'.. and i WON. hip hip.

its been a good time here in snowy cranbrook.. but tomorrow i am headed off to seattle with my family and dale to do some shopping, and then onwards to vancouver.. and back to school in six days. YUCK.
i got a little teary tonight thinking about leaving my cozy home, and thinking how victoria gets really lonely sometimes.. bleh.

i'll be okay though..
its just always hard leaving!!
xx