Word of the day: Christmas. Well, that's what it is, but only five minutes into. It doesn't really count. So word of the day should be: shopping.

This week has just been a blur. I did some stuff.

I just came back from Franklin Christmas.

I think the hightlight of my day was when me, my brother (Mr. Stoic) and my sister were all jammin in the car...and by jammin, I mean dancing so hard that I could hardly drive. Um, not safe. I don't care.

We went to the mall today, and I promise, we went to six different stores trying to find Daniel some cologne. Six. He is a picky monster. But, the reason we went was that neither of them had bought me Christmas presents yet. Ridiculous.

I feel so fat. I have made eggnog three times since I've been home, I've eaten toffee and cookies and pie and candy and mini pizzas. Last night, we went to Texas Roadhouse for Daniel's birthday. We only go there for the rolls.

OOH! Haircut! I love those!

I also enjoy Hibachi. Had some a couple days ago with Sarah and Rachel, stuffed my face off, and I'm gonna have more tomorrow. Or today. Whatever. It's the love family tradition. We get tired of all that Thanksgiving-type food, so we go out for Hibachi on Christmas, been doin it for years.

I got a shirt today. It was supposed to be a stocking stuffer. Long story short, it says "Self-rescuing princess". My father knows me well.

Speaking of princesses...I went to see Princess and the Frog this week. SUPER CUTE. The more I think about it too, the more I like it. Music: excellent. Animation: beautiful. Storyline: well, I would've liked a little more princess, but whatever. Love story: HEART MELT. Well, the story between Ray and Evangeline definitely made me tear up (geez, I feel like an overemotional mother), and when Naveen made a ring for Tiana and was going to propose...aaaah! I do believe that's the first proposal ever in a princess movie. Well, almost proposal. Anyway, I just very much enjoyed it altogether as a cute feel-gooder.

I made Christmas cookies with my mom last night. Jammies, apron, rolling pin. I mean, mom may be really annoying at times, but we had fun and it was cute.

I love the fact that Morgan came over to spend the night, and we spent hours on youtubemostly watching cat videos and drinking sparkling grape juice.

I'm just going to throw out there how much I hate Sevier County. I love my family, I love my friends, I love my church, and I love the buildings here. But the whole culture of Sevier County... *shiver* We are a redneck county. The Heltons were a generic redneck family---ALL of them live in Sevier County, and I'm not ever joking. So now every time I just want to go to Walmart or somewhere, I get real paranoid I'm going to run into one of them, or one of their friends, or one of Dusty's friends....yuck.

At least he didn't pull anything this week. The church theory has yet to be fully tested when I actually get to go back to Evergreen on a Sunday, but other than that, he hasn't caused me any trouble. Well, at least not on his own. I'm teaching myself not to look at his facebook, which is helpful. The first few days, I was frustrated, but I vented it all into microsoft word, in a document I pretend that he will see today, but he really never will. And it helps to have Morgan here to remind me WHY I leave him blocked and send him nothing. Yes, I would still like my "final conversation" or my closure or whatever, because I still don't feel like I have it, but the way things are right now, it doesn't look like it will come from him. And it's about time I stopped looking at his facebook, because things are getting real ooey-gooey between him and Mrs. Buttface....I'm STILL wondering why that has lasted this long, and how long it will continue. I mean, I still want my "I'm sorry, here's how I'm going to change." And then have him never speak to either one of us again, drop Chattanooga and start going to Walter State, but God's in control and not me...which is probably a good thing.

And this summer....I have NO idea what's going to happen...MTW said no to both Ireland and Ukraine. They still have to look at Greece, but at this point I'm kind of expecting a no on that too. *Sigh* I really do think I'm supposed to go overseas this summer, but the whole "where" deal is still up in the air.

So. In a few hours I will wake up and it will be Christmas. Really? It doesn't feel like it. Weird.

Song of the day: Replay, cuz that's what me and the sibs jammed to.