When Josh and I decided to go back to Michigan for Christmas, I was worried because I wouldn't be able to relax and enjoy the Christmas atmosphere...which I look forward to doing every year but never ever accomplish. When I was in school there was always exam weeks right before hand, and no time to prepare properly for Christmas because I was so stressed out. Then when exams finished I had 1 week to buy presents, wrap them and prepare and send cards. Then in Graduate School it was even worse if you can believe it. I had my own exams, I had to grade the exams from the labs I teach, report the grades, continue doing research, prepare a poster of my research and then fly out to San Fransisco to present the poster for the week before Christmas. The week following Christmas I usually had to fly out to Stanford to use their super large microscope ironically called the SHRIMP. Huh...I can't believe I did all that. No wonder I went insane.
Then last year I started my new job right before Christmas, but had to stay at one of the mall jobs up until Christmas day. That meant 65 hour weeks.
Plus Josh worked Christmas day every year.
This I was really looking forward to relaxing with Josh and doing nothing with him for several days in a row. Instead we are driving to the snow and cold and planning on driving all around the state, GR, TC, MP, and Freakmont. With our luck it will blizzard and we will be stuck in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Well I was wrong! It's true...I do not know everything! Starting with my birthday (which by the way is the Official Start of Christmas), I've been relaxing and enjoying everything! I had all of my friends over Friday night for a potluck dinner and everyone share their Christmas traditions. I loved hearing about them!! Ever since I learned that my family's way of doing things isn't the only way, I love to see all the different ways people do things....there's always a chance their way is better. We stayed up to 3:00am talking with Shann and Rory...some of my favorite peoples, and then got to sleep in! We had a lazy lazy Saturday where we didn't clean, and I didn't even think about cleaning.
This is where I should mention that Sarah and Heather got me Cataclysm Deluxe Edition!!!!!!!!! Shiza! It's fricken amazing! It comes in a sweet box with trading cards, a book of artwork from WoW, a mouse pad, a behind the scenes dvd (which I need to watch!), the soundtrack (which I am listening to right now) and the Cataclysm Expansion disk. For those of you who don't know, Josh and I play the World of Warcraft (WoW) with Sarah and Heather and a few other people we know here. Cataclysm is the new expansion to the game and really provides a large change to gameplay. In some ways it's like it's a whole new game, in some ways it isn't. Josh, Sarah, Heather and I (and Merritt and Thomas now) are all in a guild called I Am Your Face. I guess a guild is sorta like a team. It always us to chat with each other and quest together and share rewards. Let's just say getting this present was one of the biggest surprises I've had in a LONG LONG time. It tied up there with the $500 Christmas bonus I got.
Back to Saturday, I played WoW all day and relaxed. Oh, in the evening Sarah and Heather took me to the Cat Shoppe with them where I got to pet lots of homeless kitties they foster at the store. There was one female who reminded me of Megan's childhood cat, Snuggles. This Snuggles Look Alike came up to me in the store and asked me to pet her. Her tailed wiggled weird when I did...it sort of vibrated back and forth really fast.
Sunday Josh worked and I went to Sarah and Heather's to play WoW...in my pajamas! They had a large fire going and I fell asleep playing. Miss Bridget, their elderly kitty, took a nap on me while I slept. Then the fire alarms went off and everyone was awake. The fireplace flue had shut...due to poor design.
It snowed Sunday and everything froze and Heather had to drive me home because my poor truck couldn't make it up the icy hill. In its' defense, the sand bags had slid to the front of my truck last week and then froze there. My fault.
Monday we had a two hour delay for work, and Josh was able to drive me in. Once home we sat in the living room and wrapped presents. Ackbar slept on the couch with us.
Tonight we are doing the same thing, only Josh is studying and we have a fire going! Oh, and we cooked delicious pulled pork sandwiches yesterday and ate at the table. Tonight I made a potato cabbage italian sausage soup which we are about to eat. I've also been heating up spiced cider to drink and add to the Christmas atmosphere.
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