Catherine

Watching the cartoon version of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas is fabulous. Then it's 24 hours of A Christmas Story score! I love Christmas movies, well, sometimes.

We just made a bajillion Christmas cookies at my house, seriously, there were so many it's insane. Frosting them took forever.

What else? Oh yeah, see that amazing pearl necklace in my picture, Brett's present for me. I was amazed, it would have been something I would have picked out for myself. I love it. He's a sweetheart. Christmas with his family yesterday was fantastic. His grandma lives in Des Moines and his Dad's side gets together and there are tons of them. I've never had a Christmas like that, we always just stay home, there would be 6 of us when Papa was alive, now it's just 5. I miss him still. But at the get-together there were many hours of Uno Attack, margaritas and reading Why do men fall asleep after sex? (and other questions you'd only ask your doctor after 3 whiskey sours) which is a really funny book, oh man. Lots of little questions in life, answered!

We now have a bearded dragon baby in my house, my sister took it home from school. I never thought I would think a little lizard thing could be cute, but, it definitely is. I like holding him, his name is Soloman, ha.

Ok, well, back to the Grinch.

Love,
Catherine
Current iTunes Track:
Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt
Think of all the fun I've missed,
Think of all the fellows that I haven't kissed
Next year I could be just as good
If you check off my christmas list
{haha yeah right}

Sleep? What's that? I'll be paying for my extremely strange sleep schedule on Wednesday when I have to get up for work. Finished my Christmas shopping tonight (woo) and got to hang out with Brittany and Tyler. That was pretty fun, watched Office Space, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and even a special about a guy with 3 wives. Sweet.

Meet Mimi, my teddy bear, for some reason, this is the one I attached myself too, not that I got as a baby coming home from the hospital but the one I received when I was 3, before I moved away from New Jersey from the lady that cut my hair. I called her, you guessed it, Mimi. I don't even know what her real name was. I find security when I snuggle up with her, I can always sleep without her, but, when it's a particularly rough night she seems to do the trick.

People find security in so many places. I see it in girls, with covering their faces every day with makeup or just the right outfit, finding security in the way they cover themselves. I'm not sure how guys do it, maybe they don't, but a little part of me likes to think that everyone finds their security in some place, maybe even religion. I don't even know that I have a conclusion to this yet, just thoughts that have been bouncing around in my head.

I should attempt to get some sleep and maybe try and wake up at a decent hour tomorrow. I'll be stranded without a car, I'll probably end up seeing Stephen or Alicia though. I miss those kids. I especially want to see Alicia though, hear all about how Garrett gave her a promise ring. Which, I will probably ponder at a later date, but right now, my brain wouldn't be able to form a complete thought.

Love,
Catherine

Current iTunes Track
I'm Ready by Jack's Mannequin
I come undone oh yes I do
just think of all the thoughts wasted on you
and every word you say
say something sweet
'cause all I taste is
blood between my teeth

Oh, the joy of company Christmas parties. We host the one for the broadcasting group of Meredith every year. Surprisingly, it's fun. Slightly intoxicated adults are easy to talk to. Besides I got to wear my Christmas necklace and a green hair ribbon. Yay. I love Christmas colors, mostly because I love anything and everything green. And the white elephant gift exchange is always a riot. There was much joking about the HUGE red shovel that is the "art" sculpture outside of Meredith.

In more exciting news I got my camera TODAY! Oh man, it's beautiful, I love it. The pictures I took today are pretty lame, mostly just food items and Christmas decorations and my family. Playing around with the apperture, shutter and light settings...you know figuring out how it all works. My Mom was like, "Are you sure you want it before Christmas?" and I was like, "YES! I want to take pictures on Christmas day!" and she said, "Well do you want it right now?" YAY! I was pumped. It made me feel better too. I was home sick today, didn't end up being a Christmas slave after all. Ha.

I realized today that Christmas is in one week and I have not started shopping. At all. I should work this week but the more I think about it, the less I want to. Can a girl just have a week off once in her life? Well, I did have half a week off and I just slept all the time, but, I blame that on my current sickness and drained feeling from finals. Ah. I never know what to get my sister. Well, I did know, but now? She said that someone else is getting her what I was going to get her *sigh* she's so hard to shop for.

I should sleep if I'm going to attempt to go to church, Christmas shop and go see Eragon tomorrow.

Ok, I lied here are a few of my favorite pictures taken today...



































































Love,
Catherine

Current iTunes Track:
Annie Waits by Ben Folds
But to imagine a fall
With no one at all to catch you
There'd always been someone

I currently have over 5 blogs on the internet, each one serving it's own purpose and function. Some of those have sort of died and others are for my eyes only. After much thought and debate in my head, I decided to make just one more, for friends and family to maybe see what I'm up to or thinking about on a day to day or perhaps week to week basis. Here it is. Yay? Maybe.

I'm home for Christmas, which, is exciting. It feels like home, but it feels different, I think it always will. If you've ever seen Garden State, which, you should because it happens to be one of my favorite movies, there's a conversation that Andrew and Sam (played by Zach Braff and Natalie Portman, respectively) have about home:

Andrew: You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone.
Sam: I still feel at home in my house.
Andrew: You'll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for you kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.

I love that.

What else?
I think I passed all of my classes or at least I hope I did. Geology seemed a bit shady, but I'm hoping the curve will help me there. I can't wait for next semester, 2 theater classes and a dance class? Doesn't get much better then that.

Tomorrow I'm a commercialized Christmas slave for 7 hours. Ok, our store isn't THAT commercialized and I really like it, until the bad Christmas music starts playing. This being my second Christmas at Seasonal Concepts I feel I am an authority on the matter of Christmas music and so I present to you the first of my infamous lists...

Top 4 Worst Christmas Songs Ever
1. Feliz Navidad
Need I say more about this one? It has 24 words sung over and over and over again.
2. The Little Drummer Boy
This song really has very little to do with Christmas and it has the word "pum" in it 63 times. Repetitive much?
3. The 12 Days of Christmas
Speaking of repetitive...our store has the version without words, you can never quite be sure when the horror will end. I like the Relient K version though.
4. My Favorite Things
When did this become a Christmas song? It's from the Sound of Music for heavens sake.

Today Mom and I went to Christian Photo to look at Digital SLR cameras, basically, my one and only present this year. I found the one I want, the guy helping us even let me take it outside to make sure it's the one I like. I was practically drooling over it. The Canon EOS Rebel XTi wow. I'm excited

I'm still not used to having such short hair, it's a little bit of a crisis for me, everytime that I see a picture of myself with my long hair I really really miss it. It will grow back, right? Sure.

I kind of like how it got progressively shorter and the fact that I had about 5 different hairstyles in my first semester of school.

Love,
Catherine

Current iTunes Track:
Green Light by Punchline
One way with a green light
I think its all gonna be alright
I'm better than ever and its the best day of my life