Christmas Updates and a Good-bye to 007.

Wow. So 2007 is finally over and I am in my final semester of college. EVER, with any luck. Since it has been a long while since my last blog, I will catch you up on my Christmas and New Years "extrava'suck'as". Just kidding, they were great.

I remember my first semester down here in North Carolina where I had my tiny little apartment that, at first, made me feel extremely clausterphobic. Somehow or another that little armpit of which I called my apartment became home to me. I remember going home to Maryland for my winter break that first year and subconsciously thinking that I should "probably go home now" to my little armpit. It's funny how things change. But this past vacation to Maryland was in essence my favorite visit to date. It felt cozier than I remember, my dog Bailey has finally learned not to piss me off too much and I actually enjoyed his constant companionship. But above all else, I was HOME. I was able to finally relax and sleep.

Have you ever seen the movie Forrest Gump? (I know it's a stupid question...) I definitely "pulled a Jenny" by sleeping for days at a time. Not to say I have a whorish, drug enduced existence down in Wilmington, but life certainly catches up to you when you have a moment or two to reflect on a semester of fun and excitement, leaving you feeling completely wasted with fatigue. Thank goodness my parents allowed me to sleep it off.

Christmas was of course a madhouse. It's funny how some things change, but in a way they always stay the same. Christmas is when my mom's side of the family gets together to spoil all of the young cousins, but this year it was quite different. Every year that goes by, it seems like the family is getting smaller and smaller. Maybe we should allow alcohol to make a friendly return next year. Irish egg nog... why isn't it a year round treat? Anyway, my cousin Emily has become quite the little terror (that's the nice way of saying biatch). She is 9 years old and extremely opinionated, so much as to snub her nose at my mother's present. I guess High School Musical t-shirts are not as cool as aliens. Now that I think about it though, she is the first one in the line of cousins that has possessed this fascination for aliens. I guess me and my other 10 or so cousins missed the memo.

Christmas Eve Mass- you can always count on my dad to get somewhere absurdly early, almost to a point of where you want to start playing Hangman on a church bulletin. I read through it with my sister to find grammatical errors (NERD ALERT), but it's shocking how many were in there... come on Saint Mary's, get some Godly intervention on your 1922 typewriter.

After the Mass, we went back to our house as a family to take family pictures and relax after a day ruined by my biatch of a cousin. My mother thought Christmas was ruined for sure. Anyway, the pictures ended up making me look like a SantaSlut, I would put the pictures up but I am afraid they would scare small children. I have never been a huge fan of posing, I find it unnatural. If you want a picture of me you should probably capture me doing something stupid or laughing, those are my natural moments. But, as usual, the rest of my photogenic family looked wonderful, even Bailey looked better than his youngest, skanky master.

And Christmas morning came shortly after the 90th time we watched the slideshow on the digital camera. Erin, my sister, showed us that we could plug the camera into the tv and watch it as a slideshow. Turned out to be her Christmas ruiner I think since none of us knew how to do it, haha. So, came time to open presents. Everyone got something new and wonderful, but my mom got the best present of all- an impossible to find Nintendo Wii. She cried and "peed a little" when we started to play with it.

The Wii is the only thing that broke my slumber while I was home. My friends whom I haven't seen since about high school came over and we played for hours, not to mention the late night Wii Tennis and Bowling with my dad, who is determined to think he can beat me. I will never lose at tennis.

So in summation, my Christmas break truly was a homecoming for me. Maryland is everything I love with all of the people I love. I finally had a new feeling of relaxation I hadn't had in over 3 years. I was happy and content; moving back to Maryland will be the next chapter of my life and I am looking forward to 2008 and my final semester in North Carolina.