Merry Christmas! I got a lot of Pokemon books, a couple Chi's Sweet Home books (you laugh, but it's adorable! You can't stop reading it! It grabs you!), three books by Garth Nix, Diana Wynne Jones, and Geroge R.R. Martin, the new Studio Ghibli movie, and socks. I am terribly excited about those socks. I wonder who first thought it was a good idea to give children clothes for Christmas. They were very cruel, whoever they were. I bet it was Sauron, because only Sauron could be capable of such evil. All the little hobbit boys and girls went to bed excited, knowing that they would recieve delightful presents, and what to their wondering eyes should appear, but... clothing! And their screams resonated throughout Middle Earth and Sauron delighted in his evil scheme. 

I know a lot of people don't have anything for Christmas, and I'm sorry. Please allow me my middle-class joking. 

I'm going to my grandparent's house where there is supposed to be a lot of pheasant for lunch. We're going to stay with them for a couple of hours then come back and flop around. I'll read some more of my new books and then butcher Oedipus in my parody play for a while. 

I hope you all enjoy your Christmas if you celebrate it! 

Merry Christmas!

I actually asked for socks, and I did get some! The only socks I have are my cross country socks, so I did want some other ones. And I saw the most weird socks at some store. So, for Christmas, I simply told everyone I wanted socks. I'm excited, though, because I got a bunch of art supplies, as well as some gray tones that I've secretly wanted but told no one of, and a steampunk cap covered in little gears! Steve got a hat with Legos, computer keys, and gears. 

Most of the day is over, but we did have a big lunch at my grandpa's house, and there was this couple there with a fourteen month old baby who was adorable. He got a stuffed bear, and when his dad was helping him unwrap it, the paper was torn in such a way that he only saw the legs, and he was scared of it for awhile.

We don't have any specific traditions (at least, none that will happen today) so I don't quite know what the rest of the day will hold. 

1. A sweater from J. Crew

2. A Vera Bradley duffel bag

3. The House of Hades & also The Shade of the Moon by Susan Beth Pfeffer

4. $25 Barnes & Noble giftcard

5. $15 iTunes guftcard

6. Steve Madden boots. STEVE MADDEN BOOTS. I am very excited about these boots.

7. Three pairs of earrings. I already lost one pair.

8. Before we left for winter break, Jordyn gave me a poster that says KEEP CALM AND DFTBA.  

I think that's all my presents for now. I'm heading up to Greensboro tomorrow to see my dad's parents and will get more presents then. (Not clothes, though. My dad's parents never buy me clothes because they don't like the way I dress.) 

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas! I left for Disney World on Christmas day and I am currently there right now. I am having so much fun! I got: a gift card, a LOT of classic books (yay), some craft kits and craft books, scrapbook punches and scrapbook paper, a new shirt, lip gloss and nail polish, and my most favorite gift, an oil painting set. I love it so much, because it came with all of the painting supplies I would want! I loved all of my gifts, though!  

Joyeux Noel (late) et bonne annee!

Translation: Merry Christmas (late) and a Happy New Year! 

I've been telling that to my friends and relatives for the past two days. Not that they understood.

On Christmas morning, I woke up, as usual, at three thirty in the morning and didn't go back to sleep until that evening. I felt lucky because I was able to go to sleep quickly in the first part of the night. The minute the clock struck seven, my sisters and I leaped out of bed, and went to the living room. We looked at what Santa had brought us (the unwrapped stuff, which would be a new radio and a piano bench) and what Dad had put out at six in the morning (a very large dresser drawer that is now in the girl's bed room and a chalkboard for the classroom. That last one wasn't finished yet.). Then we got our stockings down, and looked through them. Aside from the Reece's Pieces, clementines, and nuts in there, we each got a card game (Rat-a-tat-cat, Sleeping Queens, and Dutch Blitz) and a piece of jewelry.

Mother and father took an hour to wake up! Once they looked in their stockings, we had out morning prayer time and reading, we sat down to open the stuff under the tree. I got three Mandie books, a Vera Bradly bag, a journal, a book of illustrated classic poems, another book that is a French tutorial, and a pair of tights. I was surprised that I didn't get more clothes. Usually we do.

Also, my sisters and I received something hard. A puzzle, that when we solved it, we would get what the puzzle was of. I guessed what it was right away, but Butterfly thought it was a tent and then a volleyball net. I was right. Dad had cut out the puzzle, and he couldn't even solve it by himself. When we finally did it, he joked that the prize was taking a picture of the puzzle, and getting it made into a real one. Later in the day, he went outside to start putting the present together. Now we have a trampoline in our yard. :D