bloody, buggar, blasted, beasty balls :)

HAHA so the title for this blog comes from my roommate Lauren. We were watching Starter for 10 an English comedy of sorts and Lauren and I were loving the English accents and vocab. That was then that we decided that we will "speak British" at our house. There's more to how "bloody, buggar, blasted, beasty balls" came out of Laurens mouth but I can't remember.

Last week and weekend were crazy. On Thursday an RA Roberto and I took 6 residents to see the Christmas Cantata at the church I have been attending. Chaleece was in the show and Tina met me there. It was a really nice show. Full of cheesy dialogue and songs about Jesus. There were also dancers which is what Chaleece was doing. It was a nice evening. My favorite part was Robertos wife came and brought their 6 week old son with her. So Tina and I spent the show playing pass the baby and fawning over Levi. After the show Chaleece, Tina and I went to Chilis for some dinner and I got home about 11:30 and passed out.

Friday was a bad day at work. I have some issues with how things are being handled and people are being treated. But as my parents pointed out that is just life in the workplace. People want stuff done and they will use their power to get it done. SO lets just say i was counting down the minutes to go home. I actually went straight to get Tina because I said I would give her a ride to her staff Christmas party at Michaels and plus I wanted to go. I was there about 20 minutes and started feeling bad so i went home. Rebecca came home a volunteered to go get Tina so I didn't have to drive back out to Michaels. Friday night James and Jon came up from Tampa for the weekend. The two of them along with Neal, Peter, Amanda, and Lauren went and saw Chaleece in the cantata. Afterwards they came over and played some games.

Saturday I got up around 10am and hung out. Then all the boys came over and Lauren, me, and them went to get lunch at a Chinese buffet. Then they all went to see a movie and I went to another Mary Kay party at Tina's. Afterwards at home Lauren and the boys came back and we sat around staring at each other for a good 2 hours. Jon was getting bored and antsy so we gave him a list of stuff that needed to be fixed around the house and off he went (boys are handy sometimes) Chaleece came over and declared that she wanted to build a gingerbread house. Then boys were hungry so they left to get house supplies, food, and beer. Lauren and I stayed behind and started making Christmas cookies. So that night my house was filled with the delicious smell of cooking sugar cookies, the sounds of laughter and Christmas music, and just a great feeling you get when you hang out with people you love and you forget about the stresses of life. Lauren and I kicked everyone out around 1am after a game of Mafia and a 30 minute discussion about the probability of someone getting the Mafia card two games in a row. (i chose to ignore all of them and clean the kitchen. math makes my head hurt :) )

Sunday I slept in till 12 and it was wonderful. After getting dressed in my awesome Christmas tackiness. Lauren and I got ready for the party. I made punch that had raspberry sherbet, tropical fruit punch, and champagne in it. ( which was DELICIOUS) Lauren made frosting for the cookies and we set up the cookie bar. We turned all the Christmas lights on and the music and waited for everyone to show up. It was a great day. We did the advent calendar for the day and then talked about our spiritual gifts. People brought food with them so we ate and were just plain merry. Then we handed out all the secret santa gifts and opened one at a time. I had Emi and I burnt him a CD of all my favorite worship songs and a book of prayers. Jon had me and he wrote me a poem and got me a $10 gift card to Chilis. Everyone stayed until about 8 then Michael came back to pick up Rebecca to go watch a meteor shower and he helped us clean everything up washed dishes and everything. (he slightly renewed my hope in the male species)

So yeah it was a crazy busy and fun weekend. I will make another post about this week because this one is long enough.

Love and miss you all
<3

I COME HOME TOMORROW!!!