you can tell everybody that this is your song
meredith and danielle and i baked SO much on sunday, it was great, and the cookies were delish. i even made frosting from scratch with no recipe and it tasted good, can you believe it?
monday, danielle and i went to the yankee candle outlet, which was funnnn. i restrained myself and only bought "clean cotton." (suite 411 girls - you must buy this)
okay, before i forget, i was reading dayna's diary thingy tonight, and she included the recipe for cable guys. it is, unfortunately, incorrect. so, here is the correct recipe for a tasty Cable Guy, trademark drink of PiKappaPhi/Suite411 (no we didn't make up the name):
fill a glass with ice
add 2 oz. of whiskey (2 standard shots)
the juice of half a lemon
1 teaspoon powdered sugar
*stir
fill the rest of the glass with ginerale

*delicieux*

christmas was really nice. after yankee yesterday we had grilled cheese and soup and i "watched White Christmas" (a.k.a. i napped). went to the grocery store with mom and dad, had dinner, hung out, went to church, came home. matt martin and bonnie were both listed in the list they read during the prayers part. i forget what you call it, but i wonder how they're doing. i hope the bonnie rumors aren't true. if you know anything, let me know.
when cyndy got home, i made everyone open their presents from me, as i do every year. we also opened a really have box my grandma sent that was labeled "to the Smetanas from S. Claus." it was a statue of joseph, mary, and jesus. it's not like any one i've ever seen. and it's really, really heavy. everyone liked their gifts, i think, and things seem to fit.
last night we discussed what time we would be getting up today. the past several years, i've told my sister things like "don't wake me up before 9," and then i've gotten up real early and woken everyone up. last year i woke up at like 630 and opened the stocking outside my door and napped and colored a whole page in the powerpuffgirl coloring book that was in the stocking (with glitter glue!), THEN woke everyone up at 730 or 8.
last night, i went to bed at 12 and read the yayasisterhood for awhile, woke up at 330, and 630 or something and stayed in bed and asleep. in the middle of a CRAZY dream, my sister jumped on me, announcing it was christmas. it was 759. i deserved to be woken up.
it was a nice, super lazy day. my only sadness comes from the lack of snow. oh well.
i got lots of great presents. i got a zoom camera, which i wanted, and watch and cloooothes and money. oh, and a pocket umbrella. it was all perfect!
i guess my great grandmother isn't doing too well at the moment. she's staying at a different place from my great grandfather, so she can get more care, and she's waiting for them to do a bone scan because she has all these back problems. she's been very disoriented i guess, and just doesn't want to walk. she's 95, so i think none of that is too shocking. the kind of amusing part is she keeps saying my great grandpap has all these "other women." we talked to him today, he seems to be doing really well. he asked when i was leaving for london, and commented that at least i should be okay with the language.
there was lots of phone talk today, and lots of sitting around. mmmmmmmmmm
tomorrow cyndy and i are going to nashua early and i have to work at 4 :P
my eyes hurt. bed time.
xoxoxoxox