Ode to Joy

Greetings!!!!

I am sitting here watching the final episode of "The Next Iron Chef" and decided that I will blog. This week has been very eventful and the next couple days are really busy as well. Tuesday I went to Tangled again with Morgan. It was the late show though which made me super tired and irritable the next day. Wednesday was my college and career Christmas party which was awesome! We had a great turkey dinner, in which I learned how to be patient and make gravy. I got to talk to some awesome people and just really celebrate Christmas with friends. We then opened our Christmas presents from our Secret Santa. We each had to buy a toy that our selected person would like to play with as a child. We all opened our gifts and then we are donating them to a children's shelter or someplace that had presents for children but got stolen a couple weeks ago. I received a nerf football and I gave my friend Melissa the Candy Land game. We then played this kind of fun charades game. Normally I don't like Charades but this game was really fun and funny! Then we just hung out for a bit! Such a good Christmas party!

Thursday I had off from work and so I baked all day. I felt like a grandmother or something just wearing my apron all day and making so many things. I made cream cheese truffles, fudge, popcorn balls, monster cookies, lemon squares, carrot applesauce muffins, banana chocolate chip muffins, and white/dark chocolate peppermint bark. It was awesome! I had some visitors that wanted a snack :) It was a great day!

On Friday was our Christmas party for Starbucks. It was okay. I was super tired and had to open today so I left early but so did everyone else. We had a small gift exchange and enjoyed some good eats! My bball practice went really well that afternoon. Leia was there and it always helps so much. The girls are improving so much and it excites me to see it. Even throughout the duration of this one drill we did, they just started getting really good! I can't wait for the new year!

Plans for the rest of the week include Sunday watching It's a Wonderful Life with some friends, going to church, Monday is work and going Christmas light looking with Diana, Tuesday is my weight training practical exam and Wednesday is the day that I get to go home. Alberta bound!!!!!!! So stoked!

Now to get to the gym before I hang out with people tonight hopefully! Later days!