One thing our family got for Christmas was a packet of those magnetic words, the theme of which was famous movie lines. We have already had a lot of fun re-arranging the words. Some quotations now on the fridge:

"I am not his mother"
"Here's looking at your heels"
"All right Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for all the gin joints in the world"
"Dave, the truth is you look like a wise guy in my pajamas"
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"
"We don't need no little dog"
"You talking to a magic mirror?"
"Frankly, my dear, the force is sniffing glue"
"You just never know how you show me home"
"I can't handle your eyes on the wall"
"I once shot a boy's best friend in Kansas"
"Ask yourself, is it an angel or a damned dirty ape?"

Sense: we make very little of it.

Also, today, my sister and brother got out their flute and clarinet, and I got my trombone, and we all played and sang Christmas carols, and it was marvelous fun.

Hope it was a cheerful day for everyone!

This post is REALLY LONG, so I apologize.

So, Monday was rather fantastic. I got to school and was not looking forward to algebra (I never am...). But, in some incredible run of luck, algebra didn't suck. I was not wishing pain on my teacher the whole time. In fact, I was understanding everything, and I didn't wish any bad things on anyone! I hope this is a good omen for algebra in general. I'm going to hope it all gets better from here! Also, I wasn't looking forward to band, and was hoping that maybe we'd have a band study, but since I was almost sure my conductor was in school that day, I figured we'd have to play... but we didn't! It turned out that my conductor's plane back from Chicago had been held up due to the snowstorms. It was quite the real life deus ex machina.

( and then even MORE stuff happened )

WE GOT A SNOW DAY ON FRIDAY
FWWEEEEEE~
:D

This meant that me not having done any of my homework didn't matter at all! And the funny part was, it didn't start snowing until 1 PM... and we get out of school on a normal school day at 2:10. Still, it has been snowing practically nonstop since then, though it's calmed down a bit now.

I managed to get most of the Christmas presents I was intending on buying today. Now I just need to get one for my sister and Chris and I'll be all set. Christmas shopping is very tiring, and its quite astounding to watch as the money slowly but surely disappears. ._. Still, wrapping the presents is a lot of fun, and I think this is the first year I'm getting everyone in my family a present.

I think I realize why so many people get socks for Christmas. There are oodles of socks on sale around Christmas time, and most of them are very nice. Really, the whole time I was shopping, for every person I was buying for, I kept saying to my sister, "What if we got them these socks? Or these socks? Or what about slippers? Leg warmers?"

Other than that, there's not really anything new to report.

Today, I did an entire ID sheet for history. This is an accomplishment, because ID sheets are really hard and take a long time. The reason for this is that they just give you a list of historical terms/items, usually somewhere between 26 and 30 (this time it was 38), and then you have the name every bit of significance they had between two certain years. The years this time were 1789 and 1800, and my goodness, a lot of stuff happened in those years. Yeesh. But I finished it! And now I have to write an essay on Frankenstein. Oodles of fun.

I am very excited for Christmas! On the one hand, it can't come fast enough, but on the other, I still need to make Christmas cards, clean up the living room so that we have a space to put advent calenders and decorations, buy everyone stuff... Aww maaaan, I've really got to get to that. I can't make up my mind about what to do for gifts, though. Should I get my whole family and very close friends something, and get them all something nice, or should I get all of my friends something small? I dunno. If it boils down to it I'll at least make cards and get people candy. Candy is always good.

In other news, my writer's block/lack of inspiration/lack of ability to formulate a plot is *still* stopping me from writing anything. Very frustrating.

That's all for now. Oh, one more thing! A bundle of teachers were cross-dressing on Friday. You just don't expect to see male teachers in dresses, but it wasn't so weird mostly because mostly they were wearing those shapeless, hardly feminine dresses that might as well have been pants. It was still very funny though.