"Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree.....

... la la la la, la la la" Yes, it is the season! Yahoo!!!!!!! And so starts the month where you have to be extra good.... :S Oh well, it's worth some manners for a month! lol

My fambly has already got most of our decorations up, I think all that's left is my own little tree (oh yeah, and the loot, how could I forget? :D). Mom has her tree and my bro's tree up in the living room, along with all the other garlands... so pretty!

Of course, "Christmas season" means "winter" which usually means "cruddy road contitions", particularily here, which brings me to last night's adventure....

Yesterday afternoon, I got a short-notice phone call from a guy in Linden, asking me to babysit his kids, ages 5, 3, and 1, respectivly. Of course, I accept, but I'm freaking out, since I have never even changed a diaper, what the heck am I supposed to do?!

(Keep in mind, I've never even taken a babysitting course, the most I've done is watching for a friend of my Dad, and the kids were older!)

I get to their place around 3, met Caleb, Ethan, and Zach, (and they were pretty cute, to), got the scheduele from the mom, and was left with them for the afternoon and evening, and entireity of about 8 hours. Their mother taught me the finer points of changing a diaper, told me that the one-year-old probably wldn't take a dump while I was babysitting, and was out.

The kids and I had a blast, they were great to work with. Zach went to sleep around 7, Caleb and Ethan a little later than they were supposed to, since they claimed to be getting ready for bed. Oh well.

The parents didn't get back til about 11, and I got driven home on roads that looked pretty alarming, with the amount of snow gettting blown onto us. But as is evident, I returned safely, the kids liked me, and the parents have another possible babysitter!

Now I'm really bushed, only got 8 hours of sleep, and I need more coffee.... but that was still fun. And since I'm too tired to type any more.... yeah. Cia!

I... HATE...... WINTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As I speak, it is minus 20-something degrees Celcius, snowing, and even though I'm inside exercising my fingers, they are still going numb. AAARRGGHH!!!! I hate winter!!!! And they fact that Tina says that Peru is hot, Dorothy just got back from Flordia, Mom and Dad were recently in Maui, and Tom is going to Brazil next month...... %&@(#!!!!! Oh well.

Anyways, now that I have vented my wrath at the weather and my (very) lucky friends...

Am grading for my green belt!!!!! Yippeee!!!!!! If I'm stuck with my orange belt for another term I may scream.... so I really hope I get my green!!! Am fairly sore from practice today, and am tired from a caffiene defficiency attack, but oh well, it's a Flex Friday tomorrow, I get to sleep in!!!!! Yahoo!!!!

Oh yeah, and Mom comes home from a 5-day shift tonight!! Happy!!!!

We ended physics!!!! Happy!!!! All I have left is the test on Tuesday, then I am FREE!!!!!!!!!! *ahem* I hate physics, but you cldn't guess that, cld ya?!

We (finally) got our school pics back, decided that these weren't the best, but definetly better than grade 7 or 8, that was horrible!!!! Please don't ask....

Was at a BUG girl's conference/PJ party last night, that was really fun. Got to meet Amanda Falk in person, even got her to sign my pajama shirt.... very cool!!! Also got to paint my nails chrome and black, very cool!! Oh yeah, forgot to mention the (ladies, please sit) chocolate fountain fondue!!!!!!!!!!! Very happy, but am now going through chocolate withdrawl, not very fun. :(

How the heck does chrome nail polish chip less than 12 hours after being put on?!?! Dangit!! %^$#&@))!!!!!

Umm.... our school's senior volleyball teams are both at provincials, I think this is the first time in a few years that they have made it. Cool!!!! And last I heard, the boys had won their first set. Yippee!!!!

Ummmm........ and I guess that's it..... yeah. Kewl.

Recently...

I discovered I can get through an entire day in a city on only 3 1/2 hours of sleep (coffee is my friend), discovered I am a caffeine addict, discovered a few more reasons why I hate PMSing, learned the guitar chords for a favorite song, have yet to figure out why I couldn't fit all my music into one binder, discovered (again) that I hate physics class (srry Mr. H), am worried that I am almost flunking French, and am stumped as to why grade 10 students don't trick-or-treat while college students do. Sheesh...

Let's see....
Sunday: Went to see Paramedic live in concert at my church, which was fun. One of the guys goes to my church, so yeah... A few of my friends and I, the 'cool' people, were in the back of the sanctuary dancing to the music.. evidently I can't breakdance! lol

Monday: Nothing worth mentioning

Tuesday: I went trick-or-treating in a not-so-great Storm costume, which mainly sucked cuz I didn't have the right wig and had to make do with sparkly hairspray. However, it was pretty fun, got some good loot, now know what a "numb bum" feels lke, very weird!

Wednesday: My guitar teacher Jared taught me the chords for Sea of Faces, one of my favoritest Kutless songs ever. Sounds horrible when I play, but oh well, I'll learn!

Thursday: Talked about judgement at youth group, not much else. Oh yeah, Meadow got an adorable kitten, so cute!

Friday: Went to a senior girl's Sunday School overnighter at church, discovered why I don't like chick flicks (yeesh). Also got to perform a funny skit with Alicia and Alena at school for drama, really funny! I think Alex's group and James' groups were the only ones who came close to us!

Saturday: fell asleep at 3, had to wake up at 6:30 to go to calgary for the Santa Clause 3 premier... that is an ungodly hour, esp. on Saturday! Had an OK day in Calgary (that movie is worth a look, BTW).
(Not going to mention that crummy evening though... let's just say I hate feminine hormonal activities! Argh)

Sunday: Had exactly no kids in Sunday School, was living off of strong coffee, and barely talked to a somewhat cute male friend of mine, bummer. However, Mom got to come back for church, and I got to play with Dana's cutie of a baby, so all was well with the world.

And that is 'recent'. Kewl.