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somehow home and the holidays have ways of making things better.

but let's start with wednesday. i went down to robinson and met up with jess and alison. we did some shopping. actually, we basically spent an hour in hot topic and another good hour drinking starbucks. but still, good times. i miss my cloops :-( but i'll be seeing them both for new years!
i also got to go out to eat with carrie, smo and dunn. that was fun, although the conversation was a little depressing. the gossip around new middletown has become all about who's addicted to what. it's kind of sad, people i used to know, many who are still in high school, are getting addicted to one thing or another and throwing everything away.

yesterday was thanksgiving (duh) and it wasn't anything out of the ordinary, but it was still a good time. i love seeing my family, they crack me up, even when they don't mean to. the food was good of course, uncle bob smoked a turkey, which was amazing, and grandma l made plain brownies just for me (she made a sign and everything :-P). i lost $10 in poker, but oh well. i hadn't played in a really long time and i was playing with my cousins who play at least once a week, usually more. i just did it for fun. i don't really even know that much about poker. i just go with it. i did get in on some euchre games though, but my luck had run out there too, i played with both dylan and grandma j and i still couldn't get a hand. poo. the good thing, there were TONS of leftovers, so i have a bunch of food to take back to school with next week.

now i'm looking forward to christmas. i'm attempting to put together a list for my parents, so they have some idea of what i want. i don't feel like they should get me anything though, they've been doing so much for me. and they always go overboard and it makes me feel bad sometimes. but i know they just like doing nice things for brother and i. speaking of brother, i never ever know what to get him. i decided i'm just taking him to Best Buy and/or Hot Topic one day and letting him pick out a few things. oh brother.

tomorrow i'm FINALLY getting my hair dyed and cut. i've had my appointment cancelled two times already and my hair is desperate. i decided to grow it out again. i always think i want short hair, then i have it for a while, and i don't want it anymore. i will say though, that this is the first time in a very very long time that i've actually enjoyed it. just not enough.

well, i'm going to try and get some work done. being home makes me want to do absolutely nothing, which is not good. if i don't stay on top of things now i know i'm going to regret it.

it feels like there have been a lot of not-so-good things happening around me, involving friends, family, etc. all i can say is that the universe usually has it's way of working things out. i'm slowly believing this again, after a long span of thinking that was complete bull. sometimes it just takes a while. plus, christmas is coming, and who doesn't love christmas?

all i have to say to those who don't live christmas, you don't make baby jesus very happy, which is what we should all be striving for.

so here's some pre-christmas cheer courtesy of my chemical romance:





xoxo.m