Spirit of Christmas

My family is wonderful. This Christmas has been the best ever. The whole family together. Opportinties for service. Snow. Giving gifts. Playing games. Eating wonderful food! and best of all, I was able to have the Spirit of Christmas, in which i could happily be of service, and that i could be happy with gifts i recieved. Im embarassed to say that in  years past, my focus would be on what i would be getting for Christmas. But this year i really could not think of anything i wanted other than what i felt i really needed. As a whole i just felt less excited about presents and more excited about family and Christmas – the opportunity to celebrate our Savior’s birth. I also love that opportunities for service arose. I feel that because I had a desire to help people out, Heavenly Father proveded such occasions.

I’ve finally learned how to have the Spirit of Christmas, and how to really celebrate Christmas.

Thanks for reading! Merry Christmas!

I almost caused a pile-up.

So, I almost died the other day well I think is was Friday actually, yesterday, anyway it snow about 6 inches or more that morning and I left for work at a decent time, 11am, and as I merge into the left turning lane to turn left into Hamilton’s I came up behind this car, also turning left into Hamilton’s, and I was going to hit this car, so instead i veer left, not right because there were cars next to me, so my next best idea was to veer left into on coming traffic! two cars were coming in each lane and im still going pretty fast so i decided to go faster and JUST BARELY make it out of the way. Heavenly Father was really watching over me. I am sooo grateful that i didnt get into an accident.

Bah! im workin on it.

Today i filed FAFSA. arg! it was crazy. and frustrating.

Im trying to figure out how to pay for school. loans cost alot. i sure dont have any scholarships yet…though it is a goal of mine to achieve.

What i dont want to do, is to quit school to earn and “save for school.” I am soo sick of taking every other semester off!  i need to go to school and get  it done!

I definently dont want to be stuck being a server all my days. it is ok some days but 3 doubles a week is insane. I was dead by the end of last week. the only good thing was that i was able to make enough money to pay rent and my loan. which is awesome. now i just have to pay my phone bill and all will be well! until next month. then i have to start paying rent for an apartment im not even living in. bah!

sad i know..im workin on it!

life is good.

Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving traditions are always enjoyable. I went home this year and spent time with my family, well half, my older siblings were not present this year, but at Christmas everyone is supposed to be home. It will be great! Growing up, It was tradition to go sledding on thanksgiving while mum cooked dinner, but now there is no snow! It snowed a little the day after, but not much. I helped mum cook dinner along with Sherrie, my little sister, we ate around 6pm. It always takes all day to cook dinner but that is ok because we have all day to do so. After dinner I took a nap on Jack, my little brother’s, bed, after he kicked me off the couch. I could barely eat pie, I was so full still. Sherrie, my mum and I went to see Twilight. They had not seen it, and it was worth watching twice, though I think that is about it. I’m not that crazy about it. They next evening (friday) I went to the Forgotten Carols concert, well it was actually more a play, well a musical. But it was great. Michael McLean has great talent. It was an enjoyable evening with my family.