But for now, let's settle for talking about, uh, Christmas. Yes, Christmas. Well... okay, not real Christmas. What I want to talk about it Fake Christmas. =D Rachel was the instigator of this madness, but I have to say that I fell for it completely, 100%. I mean, who doesn't want to celebrate Christmas as much as possible? (Especially with the threat of looming exams, essays, projects and presentations. Yuck!) So, with dreaded Finals on the horizon, we threw a party. It was EPIC.
The wreath Hayley and I made.
We sewed those leaves and berries on, you know!
Aside from a small incident in which we (*cough*I*cough*) lost the key to the room we booked out in Cobb (my residence halls) and now owe $50 for its replacement, everything went swimmingly. That morning (Friday 2nd December) Rachel, Allison and I went to the mall. There we spent too much time shopping and not enough time actually being sensible. We spent a good chunk of time in Urban Outfitters finding presents for our Secret Santa/White Elephant (I bought a pack of glow in the dark playing cards as mine!) and then we headed to Target and bought $100 worth of good and Christmas decorations. Ohme.
The party started at 5:30, but we were still hanging the lights up at that point. I'd bought a Christmas tree and decorated my room, so we took those things down into the room we'd hired and hung up some tinsel as well. We also had crisps, biscuits, a make-your-own ginger bread house, and a MYO gingerbread train. Those went down well! We made paper snowflakes, listened to Christmas music and generally just messed around. Most of us wore red. I bought a new sweater for the occasion, and a Christmas hat. It was wonderful.
The party, full swing. With lights and hats and everything.
The tree, with presents! Looks like Santa came early... :P
My present!
A Christmas CD, mug and candy cane - thanks Cortney!
We finished the evening by playing a game which I don't know the name of. Everybody writes down a simple sentence on their piece of paper. The next person looks at the sentence and draws a picture to represent the sentence, and then folds the paper over. The next person only sees the picture, and has to write a sentence that they think the picture demonstrates. The next person only sees the sentence and draws the picture. Etcetc. This goes on around a circle until everybody has their own paper back (or we run out of space on the paper) - and then, hilarity ensues. Some of the sentences were fantastic.
This was the progession of one of my sentences (though I can't show you the pictures):
- A young boy lost his pet unicorn
- Saskia hates unicorns but loves to play games with gnomes on gameboys
- The girl is on Santa's naughty list so can't have a pony. The boy is on the good list so he can have a gameboy.
- Santa knows who has been naughty and who has been nice.
- An elf holds a big penis in his hand. He helps an old guy crossing the road. Somebody wants to shoot them in the back.
... So, Lucie (final sentence) and Alex (final picture) have an obsession with penises apparently... XD
We also had a good game of Pin The Nose on the Reindeer. Alice won.
Me, not failing so hard.
Emily... failing hard. Sorry Emily!
Anyhow. Since then, finals have been eating my life. A 10 page paper every two days is not food for the soul, it is killing me. -___- Maybe you'll see me again after they're done. Maybe.
And maybe I'll finally get around to posting about Thanksgiving goodness (my only proper, sleeping break this semester - if it was even that), Halloween and the deep-fried crazy that was the state fair. :3
In other news (actually, same news): 7 days until I fly to NY to be with Vanessa and Natalie (AAAAAH!) and 10 days until I'm in Toronto with the wonderful Jordana. <3 The countdown begins!
