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hello from athens. i love athens, im also drunk off my ass. i went to downtown drinking with kent and his friends dave and crystal. i realyl really like them. they rock. i saw ben tonight too. he looked good. damn i miss london and athens where you ccan party and drink and not hafta worry bout how to get home. aby how iim having fun. ill write more next time im sober. im going to lave all the typos in thos one tho cause i wamt tp laugh at my self in the morning when im sober at how i wrote my msg when i was wasted

Well last night was the last of my Christmas festivities. So here it was beginning to end.

Pre Xmas

My Christmas already felt kinda bleh this year cause things didnt seem very christmasy and i didnt have my usual xmas spirit. first i never had time to do my tree . when i did drag our tree out of the basment and started to put it together, i discovered that the Mousekewitz family that lives in the basement had shredded the tree skirt and made a nest in the branches, so there were bits of red plaid cloth all thru the branches and it was kinda gross. so it wasnt until the thurs before xmas that i got a new tree and got one put up.

Saturday

so then christmas eve rolls around and the day of i discover im working a closing shift. when they asked me to pick up the shift i had no idea it was a closing shift. also i had no idea that my grandparents dinner started at 5pm (i figured it started around 7). i was totally stressed all through closing the store trying to get everything done and get out of there on time to make it to the lake for the big christmas dinner. this is the one that has all 40 relatives there with all my aunts and cousins. paul and steph came and met me at petsmart and i finally got out at 7:30. we call my dad up to say im off work, and he says everyone is going to leave in about an hour. by the time we drove there that would only leave us 30 mins of seeing everybody, so we ended up not going. i already didnt see any of this family last year since i was in london for xmas, and i went to TN for thanksgiving, so I havent seen any of these people for 2 years now. i know what some of you are thinking…about how i usually do anything i can to get *out* of going to the lake and seeing my relatives cause i dont like any of them, but this year i wanted to go and make a good impression on them cause its the last chance id have to see them before inviting them to my wedding and i thought if theyd seen me recently theyd be more inclined to show up. i think me not going really isnt all that big of a deal, and me making that shift change allowed me to make it to a get together with my friends from work the night before, which honestly was way better than dealing with my family, but the point i think looking back was that this was yet another xmas eve that i spent stressed out and anxious about trying to make it up to the damn lake. paul, steph, and i had dinner at fridays instead, then i went home and wrapped all the presents and went to bed at midnight.

Sunday

considering id only had 3 hours of sleep the night before at Dixie’s apartment and then worked all day, when my alarm clock went off at 9am christmas morning, i couldnt deal with getting up and going out all day that day, so i went back to sleep until 10, which was when i was sposed to already be at my moms house for christmas. we get up at 10 and steph calls saying mom has cooked us a huge breakfast and its all ready and where are we. so steph and i got in a fight cause she was mad at me and i was mad at myself for sleeping in when they were waiting on us. paul and i got there around 11 i guess and we had a great breakfast of pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, and chocolate fondue. i love love love breakfast. i could eat it 24/7. i was disappointed that my mom didnt have a xmas tree at all for us to open presents under (ok so she had a 2 ft tall undecorated tree but thats not hte same), but the breakfast and the presents and them being in such a good mood made me feel better after all the nonstop negativity id been feeling. i got a bunch of great stuff and my sister was thrilled with the necklace i got her.

an hour later my mom headed off for Tenn ( i so wish i could have gone)and the three of us (paul, steph, and me) headed up to the lake to see my dad, grandparents, and uncle’s family. at first i found it a lil awkward cause my grandmother makes me a little uneasy, but eventually us “kids” ran off from the adults and i just hung out with my cousin and his gf, lizzie, that he brought down with him. shes super sweet and i totally adore her.

next stop was paul’s parents house for christmas dinner. they made pot roast that was so so so good. they also gave me a $100 gift certificate to Kohls so i get to go shopping!

after dinner paul went home and i met back up with steph, my cousin chris, and lizzie to go see Fun With Dick and Jane.

Monday

monday i had to work in the morning (luckily daniel switched with me cause i was sposed to be closing which means i would have missed the other christmas dinner too!) and got off at 6. my dad was having an informal dinner at his house with my aunt and uncles family. my grandfather and jane werent able to make it cause he ended up having to go to the hospital for some kinda stomach problem so we didnt see him. i felt bad for him having to sit at the hospital all day instead of seeing his family. after dinner the adults and two of my cousins left to go to the hospital to see him, so steph, chris, lizzie, my other cousin adrian (chris’s brother), stephs bf will, and i watched the island and hung out.

Thursday
last night was lauren and mys christmas get together with all our friends from high school. we have one every year and i love seeing them all. i missed it last year cause of being in london so i was especially excited to see everyone. a lot of people couldnt make it this year which was really disappointing, but i did still get to see lindsey and sarah and jana and shawna and jeff all of whom i havent seen in years. lauren and i had made a dvd slideshow of pictures of all of us from the 9th grade up to last year that we played for everyone and then gave a copy to each person. shawna and i are talking again now which is awesome. it was lots and lots of fun and i really miss my high school days when we all hung out like that every weekend. you hear stuff about people never remaining friends after high school, but looking at our group that just so isnt true. ive never had friends like my high school friends.

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Today steph and i went to a petstore in woodstock where i got a new african clawed frog to replace keroppi (who died a couple of months ago). i got a baby albino one, so hes a peachy pink flesh color instead of brownshgrey. I have named him Ahiru no Pekkle — Pekkle for short. So now i have Spottie Dottie and Pekkle. Pekkle is really cute…all lil and pink. he seems to be very active. Right now hes in my little 2gallon. When hes big enough, ill move him to the tank with Spottie Dottie. I also bought SD two lil tiny feeder fry to eat and shes totally a domesticated frog. she swishes her lil arms at the fish when it swims by, totally in vain, as if the fish would hold still while she ate it. the lil fish just dart away, totally unphased by their not-so-near death experience.

The pix are up from the Petsmart Xmas party … theyre in the My Pix gallery .. heres a direct link

I’ve picked up horizons again (i think im going to drop WOW) and have been playing that nonstop in my spare time. Yesterday i had the day off so i spent the whole day catching up on my shows for the past week. Saturday night is Christmas dinner at Bill and Renes house. I havent found my christmas spirit yet this year. i think cause i havent put the tree up so i dont have pretty christmas lights to look at is a big part of it. the other part being that no one wants to exchange presents so it seems like part of thefun is gone out of it. On thurs im gonna hafta hit up the mall and buy presents for the family and i dont kknow what on earth im going to get for paul, my dad, and liz. i decided im going to get liz a present cause shes been with my dad like a year now and i actually like her. lauren and i have been planning our annual christmas party for our high school friends. im a little disppointed at the turnout cause a lot of the out-of-towners cant come and these once a year chances to see everybody are real important to me. hopefully theyll all be able to make the wedding. which reminds me, matt sandlin and jenny adams just got engaged! they went on a trip to london and he asked her then (the copy cats 😛 ). i miss london.

well thats it for now.

I went to Tennessee for Thanksgiving with my mom and Steph to see my Gramma. I had a lot of fun spending time with my family, especially since I missed last Thanksgiving and Christmas due to the Atlantic Ocean.

When I got home, I noticed Samantha – one of the dogs – was missing. Pauls dad took her to the vet and had her put down. Its an idea I myself and been playing with in my mind but hadn’t had the courage to say to Paul yet. Knowing myself, I would have thought I’d be in tears. I mean come on, I cry after like every episode of Grey’s Anatomy, but all I feel is so relieved! It’s also hard for me to be okay with putting animals down cause of my personal viewpoints on death, but really, I’m surprisingly okay with it. I was always so upset whenever I thought about her – she was 12 years old and had arthritis so badly that she couldnt even lift her body so she never moved from one spot.

I bought my wedding dress today!!!
I’m *SOOOOO* excited. Steph and i went to sandy springs to looks at dresses and there were soo many pretty ones at this place. i tried one on and it was really pretty and steph and i were saying how much we liked it. then i was like, well i still want to try this one other one on that i picked out. so i put that one on and i was just like “oh my god this dress is perfect !” i was about to cry i was so excited about the dress.

View here.
Paul, do *NOT* click this link.

im listening to a cd of a local band i heard in the Middle-of-Nowhere-Ireland that i got when i was wasted and they were selling their cds but i didnt have a penny cause i blew my last penny on alcohol so they gave it to me for free. the irish are awesome.

while im spouting my unimportant, unsolicited, baseless opinions, heres my take on winnie the pooh:
” hes a moron and a stoner (why else would he hafta sit around struggling to remember anything), tigger is on speed and is so hyper spastic hes obnoxious, rabbit is rude to everyone and pushy and bossy, piglet cant stand up for himself or ever make a decision on his own, and eeyore is a manic depressive and probably on the verge of being suicidal .. .. *none* of which i consider to be positive role models for children”

Ok well Ive been getting mass spam to my site the past two days. Some bot is adding comments on my posts that link to diet pills and online poker sites. i delete 4 yesterday and then today i deleted another 13. because of this, ive had to change the site so that you must be a registered user in order to make a comment. i think most of the people that read this are already users anyhow so it shouldnt be a problem, but anyone else that wants to post will hafta register first (registration is still open to the public).