Blog 3: Tis' the season to be jolly. Merry Christmas!!!

Hello
I'm a bit late... It's not my first time.... but still.... It was Christmas.... one minute ago.... but that's not going to stop me. Just pretend it was a minute ago and I'll talk about today! :D Today was fun and I had a pretty good day. I'm in a bit better spirits and yes that also means I have been in the Christmas Spirit also. Whoot! :) Can I tell you whats really sad about that though... I just realized how incredibly corny it is... and it's been on my mind for two days now... lol. So anywho... I wasn't able to go to church today, because I was sick and my parents weren't able to drive me. :( My favorite time to go to mass is on Christmas and I wasn't able to go... but there wasn't much I could do... obviously. Well I'm still young and have tons of Christmas' ahead of me(I hope!), so I won't be bummed out about it to much. I was going to get up early today, which I kind of did, but I didn't want to get out of bed because it was cold. So... I fell back asleep and didn't get up until around 11:00. I then hung out with my immediate family, plus Aunt Betsy, second cousin Jayda, and grandparents. Then things got a lot more fun when My cousins Josh and Jeremy and Josh's fiance, Briana, came. I haven't seen Josh and Jeremy in a long time so it was really cool and it was my first time meeting Briana. She is totally awesome!!!!! I could tell she was nervous and was trying to show how close she was to Jayda and Aunt Betsy. To show some tie to the family or something... You know... The typical nervous fiance meeting her bf's family for the first time. But ya... I think Josh and her make a cute couple and I want things to go well for them. So we were all snacking on really good food and talking and having a good time. Then my cousin Briana(I can tell that this is going to get really confusing.... lol), Jayda's Mom, came and then we eat dinner and stuffed ourselves with reckless abandon! :) Then we all went into the family room and watched Josh put together one of those toy kitchens that he bought for Jayda. It was really entertaining. lol. The only thing that was really sad about today though was that Dad was so sick that he couldn't eat or hang out with all of us. I mean Mom, Joseph, and I hung out with him before everyone got there and we would come and check up on him often, but still. It sucked and I feel sorry for Dad.... but it seemed like he liked his gifts so that's at least something. Oh! Gifts!!! I got gifts too! I actually didn't think I was going to get anything, because I had already gotten mine from my parents, which was a coat.... which I really REALLY like... and then my Grandma told me that she wasn't getting anything for anybody until AFTER Christmas because of the prices. I was fine with it, but I actually did get presents and that always makes the day better. I got a really awesome shirt from Joseph, thermal pj's, socks, and a fleece blanket from Santa aka: Grandparents, and I got footsie slippers and gloves from Josh, Jeremy, and Briana(fiance). It was so sweet of them to get me something!! I was totally not expecting anything from them. And Briana told me that wneh she went shopping for them she didn't know my size so she guessed and hoped for the best and they turned out to be the perfect size. Scary... but still really cool!! I feel bad though... I didn't have a lot of money this year to spend on presents and I really wasn't expecting anything from them... so I didn't get anything for them... T-T It probably didn't matter to them and Mom kept telling me it was ok, but I still want to make it up to them some how. So I plan on sending them a thank you card and then getting something really, really, nice for them for there wedding... unless I have an excuse to give them something sooner. So today turned out pretty well and I hope to see my family again soon... Of course I'm not a huge fan of Aunt Betsy and every time I see Jayda I have to babysit her... so maybe just the cousins.... One more thing that made this day amazing was when I woke up and found tons of messages on my phone from my friends wishing me a Merry Christmas. It made me VERY happy and it still does. Then I sent out mine to my friends and a couple of other people I haven't talked to in awhile and to my surprise I even got one back from my ex! We haven't spoken sense we broke up and I was a bit scared to send one to him, but he seemed happy. I'm so glad that he doesn't totally hate me and that we can still talk it looks like. Hopefully one day it can go back a bit to the way things used to be... but it probably won't. I'll get into more details about it later. Well... I don't really have anything else left to say other then thank God that today turned out pretty well, that I hope Dad feels better soon, and that my friends had a very merry Christmas. ChibiSukie signing out!