Bunny Love

They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on...

Oh hay thar Christmas! I've been noticing on several friends entries on LJ and on Tumblr that it just doesn't feel like Christmas this year. I don't know why, but I don't feel it as well. Maybe it's because I have no money and no one is getting anything from me this year. Usually I'd go out and get some small things and then spend the night wrapping, but I haven't had that, so I think that's part of what's missing. Not the actual material aspect of it, but once I do that I just get into the mindset of it all. Or it could be that since my family is broke we can't do much of anything tomorrow except to be together; which I am fine with. Christmas is really about being together and sharing it with the ones you love. We hear this cliché all the time, but it's true. Even if you may not be able to spend it with all your loved ones I hope that it can still be a good one. If I was in the power to grant everyone their Christmas wish I would in a heartbeat. Even we're close or don't talk much any more you are no less special to me.

Even if you skip all the stuff I wrote above, please have a safe and Happy Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa or whatever you may or may not celebrate. All my love to you all.


9th year and counting!

It looks like the postal service decided to hoard things and give them to me all today. boromirslover, bandgeek01, cenedrawood, and lallyloo, I got all your cards today! Thank you all so much! I put them around the tree where Tinkerbell promptly knocked them all down and then I'll put them back up and well, you know, circle of misery ect.

Did anyone watch the finale of Terra Nova tonight? I got a big LOST vibe at the ending there.

I also watched the first part of Neverland tonight and enjoyed it. Not the greatest of the Peter Pan lore, but I like the idea of how everything got started and how Peter became Peter Pan.

elvensapphire, you have some 'splaining to do.

My Wifey, I received your card today!!!! Which is odd since there is no post on Sunday's, but it is only because no one checked the mail box on Friday, so YAY!!! Thank you very much. It is now with my other cards. ♥ ♥ ♥

I hope everyone had a good or a relatively good Christmas. Mine was actually pretty good; I wasn't really expecting much (both out of the actual holiday/presents), but overall it was nice. Mum and I stayed home and did nothing and dad came over for Christmas Eve/Day. We basically ate, watched TV/movies, ate, slept and ate some more.

Now the oblig present moment:

You sometimes when you make up a Christmas list and you put down something that you're 99% sure you won't get, but thought you'd put down anyway? Or just set yourself up for relatively low expectations overall? That's kind of how I was feeling about some stuff on my list; most of the stuff I put on I knew I had a fair chance at getting, but a couple of items I was like 'that'll never happen, but whatever. *writes it down anyway*. Yeah, well that 1% did happen because my dad got me two things I didn't really think he would.

1st: the Kobo eReader. It's so cute and tiny and cute and book-like. :D It's more of a basic eReader with not a whole lot, but for what I want/need it for it'll do perfectly. I also know 100% that this will work within Canada. I got so confused looking at other eReaders on the market and hearing that they worked fine in Canada and then hearing they didn't and people had a lot of hassles with them. So there we are. I also got gift cards to the book store where I can buy books/ebooks and now I cannot make my mind up as to what I want now. *headdesk. The cool thing is with the Kobo is that they pre-load 100 classic novels (i.e. Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, War and Peace ect.) onto it when you buy it, so even if I cannot make my mind up as to what I want to buy I do have a lot of choices to choose from right now.

2nd: SEASON 1 OF SHERLOCK (BBC) ON DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Since the invention of boxed set tv seasons my dad has never once bought me one before even though they show up on my lists every year. I am very excited. :D

But I think the best present of all is the pair of slippers my mum bought me from Superstore (like WalMart). She got me these nice light grey slippers that can be worn both inside and outside, but she realized when she was wrapping them on Christmas Eve that she picked up one Large sized slipper and one Small sized slipper. XD So now I have a slipper for one foot.

Today I had to work the Boxing Day morning shift. I haven't worked a Boxing Day in about 4/5 years and I remember why I hate to. The second we opened our doors at 7AM it was lined up to and pretty much out the door from that point on. It was crazy. PEOPLE, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO SLEEP IN ON BOXING DAY!!! I hate working retail on occasions like that. For those of you who may not be familiar, Boxing Day in Canada is like shopping on Black Friday in the US, tons of deals/sales go on and it's nuts. I had to get up at 5:30am this morning (I have not been up that early for any purpose in years) and I fully support that 5:30am should be illegal. I am going to bed soon and it's probably the earliest I've been to bed since I was, like, 10 years old. Can you tell I'm a night person? :P

Happy Winter Solstice or belated, wherever you may be.

boromirslover, I got your card yesterday! Thank you very much, it is now sitting beside the other two cards I have gotten this year. ^__^

Tomorrow is my last day of work before Christmas. Just. One. More. Day. And then I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Or at least until Boxing Day. I haven't worked a Boxing Day in years and I'm kinda scared. I have to be at work at 7am that day as well, which is criminal in my mind (anything before noon is criminal in my book).

I must say that I am a bit disappointed that I'm not more into the Christmas spirit; I'm not sure what it may be exactly, but I'm just not finding as easy as it sometimes is. It's the 21st already and I'm not really feeling anything. :( I hope that maybe it's just the stress of work and not having time to wind down to really catch my breath.

First off: boromirslover, I received your card on Friday! I've been meaning to post a thank you earlier, but I suck and put it off until now. Thank you very much! <3

Sunday night I watched the first episode of The Walking Dead on AMC... ( minor spoilers if you haven't seen it )

I've been rereading some of the Harry Potter books before the movie comes out in a couple of weeks. I finished rereading Deathly Hallows for the first time since it came out and it felt like I was reading it for the first time again, I honestly had forgotten so much. I am very excited for the new movie and will definitely go see it. HBP is the only Harry Potter movie I never saw in theatres and it was one of the best ones, I think.

Tonight I have to go into work and when I do I'll see the whole store decked out for Christmas. I really am not looking forward to Christmas or to see Christmas stuff yet, but sadly when you work in retail you get little choice. D:

oohasparklie, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE EAT THIS NOT THAT BOOKS!!!

They arrived today and coincidentally mum and I were just out the door to go grocery shopping when I saw the package, so we spent 20 minutes in the parking lot of the grocery store flipping through the supermarket one to see what's better and what's worse.

I'm very excited because I've been trying to eat a lot more consciously and healthier these past few months and this will just help tons with the pre-made/restaurant stuff.

donna_c_punk, I received the book yesterday! Thank you so much, I cannot wait to read it. :)

Speaking of reading, I finished the first Percy Jackson and the Olympians book. I enjoyed it a lot and liked the idea of all the Greek mythology. Not my favourite, but I probably will read the next one at some point.

I'm pretty addicted to Tumblr and all the stuff on there. I love just posting random crazy shit and looking at pretty things.

Now to get ready to get my passport photos taken and go out to dinner. Dad's taking us out for a late birthday dinner in honour of mum's birthday that was on Tuesday.

oronena, your card arrived today! Thank you so much! And I'm almost halfway through season 2 of Bones. ^__^ ♥

Ok, ppl, I'm having some weird recurring dreams as of late and it's really confusing. All of the dreams features me and this fine specimen of a man, Michael Weatherly:



You'd think that be good, right? Well at first each dream starts off pretty well, but in each an every dream one or both of us dies. I dunno, it's just... odd. Each dream we start of as a couple or married or whatever, then for some reason I die, he dies or we both die. I've had this dream six times now and it never changes. One or both of us dies and then I wake up or cannot remember the rest of the dream.

Dear Michael,

I do not want you to die. I do not like to see you die (in my head). Please know it's nothing personal. I must eat or smoke something before bed that I am unaware of.

Love,
Me

I don't get it, but I seem to be dreaming of this kind of situation about once a week. *shrug*

While we're on the subject of death (yay...?), mum and I have been watching some various Ghost/Paranormal shows on TV (like Ghost Hunters, Paranormal State ect.) and we have both agreed that when we're both dead we are going to have a haunt off to see who can haunt the most people/do the coolest hauntings. We're normal. Really.

They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on

Again I say, how in the hell did it get to be Christmas already? We usually say this every year and it's always the same, you blink and the year is over. It's suddenly time to celebrate the season and the year that has gone past.

I honestly cannot say that 2009 was good. I cannot say that it was really horrible either. Needless to say I won't go into everything because a) I don't want to and b) I don't want to put any of you to sleep. I know that 2009 has been rough on many people, I don't know if it's just something because of the year or whatever, but regardless if it's been financial, health, relationship, work, family/friend issues it seems that a lot has happened to many of us. Maybe 2009 has been a learning year, who knows, I just want a fresh start.

I am incredibly blessed. I know that the job/money situation isn't good for me or mum, but I am blessed. Blessed to live in a country where I don't have to fear for my life or have any particular conflict with things. I am blessed because I do have a home, regardless if it's not the best in the world and hard to pay for each month. I have access to food, water, healthcare and the basic necessities. I am in relatively good health, just have some weight to loose. My whole family is in relatively good health (except mum is still pretty sore from her dental surgery last week, but that's to be expected). I have my kitties and Goddess only knows what else that decides to come in our place. Also blessed with incredible friends in RL and here on LJ.

When thinking about what I want for Christmas this year I could honestly and 100% say that I wanted nothing. Growing up mum and dad made a decent living, mum owned her own business for almost 10 years and dad had a strong career going for him for a long time. Just 10 years ago I was getting trips to Hawaii or Disneyland as a Christmas present along with whatever electronics/gaming systems that was hot at the time. I could honestly say that back then if I was told I would really be content with nothing then I probably would have fallen over. I wasn't a greedy brat by any means, but I was used to getting spoiled to some degree (being an only child will do that). Today I just don't care. In the grand scheme of it all, what does it really amount to? Right now I am happy just to chill with the people I love and my kitties.

Christmas is really about being together and sharing it with the ones you love. We hear this cliché all the time, but it's true. Even if you may not be able to spend it with all your loved ones I hope that it can still be a good one. If I was in the power to grant everyone their Christmas wish I would in a heartbeat. Even we're close or don't talk much any more you are no less special to me.

I mad a lasagne from scratch yesterday and we're going to have it for dinner tonight. First time I've done one and I think it looks alright. Dad is coming over and spending the night since he would have to go home and be alone for the night. He doesn't like that and gets grumpy, so we offered him to spend the night and he's going to. I wonder how Moe will be with it all. He's very weary of people and seems to be more frightened of men than women, but of course mum and I will be here so we could just drag him out from under the bed. He's my big scaredy cat (he gets freaked out if you just open a pop bottle, I guess the noise freaks him out). Tinkerbell... she could care less. I'm sure she would walk into the jaws of a shark because she'd be more curious as to what was there than what the danger would be.

Even if you skip all the stuff I wrote above, please have a safe and Happy Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice (although I'm a tad late on that one), Kwanzaa or whatever you may or may not celebrate. All my love to you all.


7th Christmas with this banner! *pets it*