• Christmas gathering with my Mom's side of the family
• Moved half of my stuff back home

• Cleaned my room and found seventy dollars
• Used newly found money to buy my first cashmere sweater at Old Navy for $40

• Went to Bloomington to pick up the rest of my stuff and see my cousin and her boyfriend
• Held babies
• Attended my favorite church service of the year
• Had the traditional Pseudo-Family Christmas Eve gathering
• Found out that after 20 years, one of my pseudo-moms doesn't always remember how to correctly spell my name
• Got a Star Wars daily calendar with lots of pretty pictures that are begging to be made into icons
  

• Opened presents
• Saw National Treasure: Book of Secrets which was entertaining
  

• Drove to Ohio to hang out with my former roommate
• Drove forty miles in ninety minutes (Cincy rush hour sucks) to hang out with mustafear for a couple of days
• Played Star Wars Lego for the Prequel trilogy, which is incredibly inferior for Lego Star Wars II
• Went to the Gap clearance out and purchased five dress shirts and two sweaters for a nickel (thanks to my cousin and grandparents for giving me gift cards that covered the remaining fifty-five dollars)
  

• Had a mini-photoshoot with the boys, their Christmas tree, and their lightsabers
• Ran around town some more
• Was grateful for not having to drive
• Got beat at Monopoly by a seven-year-old
• Watched the BSG mini-series and "33" (sidenote: is it time for season 4 to start yet? or at least buy season 3 on DVD?)
  

• Drove home with taking my first overnight trip to Z's without it being official (those who have been there know what this means)
  
• Attended a pseudo-brother's wedding
• Watched The Prestige, which was an interesting movie that I almost had fully figured out (which is good for me)
• Saw the top 20 of AFI's most recent Top 100 films
  

• Slept in
• Unpacked all but Bertha (my stinking huge suitcase)
• Tried to go to B-Dubs (Buffalo Wild Wings) to watch the IU game on the stupid Big Ten Network with my Dad, but a lot of other people had the same idea
• Instead got wings from another place and flipped between the Giants' valiant effort to take down the Pats and the first National Treasure movie
  

• Finally updated the blog
• Started freaking out about student teaching, which starts a week from tomorrow
• Had dinner at Stir Crazy, which was okay, but the company (one of my Stephanies) was a big boost
• Found out after living here for 20 years that the mall closes at 6pm on Sundays
• Browsed in Barnes and Noble for over an hour without spending any money
• Saw Charlie Wilson's War which, like the other Mike Nichols' movie I saw, left me feeling like I wasn't quite intelligent enough to watch his movies (the acting was great, I just don't get really excited with the vibe of his movies)

First, to follow up from my last post, my relatives all have power.  Most of them got it a day or two after I made that last post.  So yay for that.

But speaking of winter weather, we've had our first dose.  I was supposed to attend my work's Christmas/my going away party last night, but that was canceled.  And our shift for today was canceled, so I hurried home yesterday afternoon to hang out till tomorrow with my dad and my sister, who got home last night from school.  We got enough snow to cover the ground yesterday morning and then some ice and more snow early this morning.  They canceled all but the latest service at church, and some schools (including the one I'm going to be doing student teaching at next semester) already have two-hour delays up on the news crawl.

I, personally, could do without snow.  It's pretty to look out and all that, but I hate walking around in snow and ice.  Probably comes from having to do it for four winters at Ohio State.  My sister loves it.  Guess that's what happens when you head south to go to college.

I finished all my stuff for this semester of school on Thursday and have my last day of work this upcoming Friday.  :)  My mom's side of the family is getting together to do Christmas this coming Saturday.  And a few days later will be my favorite holiday of the year--Christmas Eve.  I'll explain that one later.

Meanwhile, some things I need to do over break include but are not limited to: visiting mustafear (hopefully when lola64 's in town as well--look out Kentucky!) and Emily, do a bit more tweaking on the resume since my self-appointed head-hunter has already found three high schools just in the area she lives in that need life sciences teachers next August, get a head start on Nawra's diary entries, work on the fic amphetamine_47  gave me permission to do (and talk with her about how to make it fit after Fury), update iconic_lydia  with all the icons I've made from various contests, and make icons from the last episode of The Office and Razor.

Hope you all are having a good December.  And that all you fellow college students survived finals week.

• catch up on drabbles
• knit
• make icons from BSG: Razor and The Deposition from The Office
• possibly take icon requests if people have them
• start plotting out the return of Nawra for the diary challenge
• go Christmas shopping once I get gift requests from certain peple (*cough*Kate Ellen*cough*)
• draw