PostChristmas

Christmas was couple days ago now. It was great, I spent a lot of time with my friends. I liked everything I got, and I'm pretty sure everyone enjoyed what I got them. I even managed to find something for David. I got him a season of Chopped. It's a cooking competition show. My girlfriends were pretty much all easy to shop for, but I thought my friend Tamara was the easiest. I go to the mall and shop with her often, so I know the brands of clothes she likes, styles, colors, you name it. I know that one of her favorite colors for clothing is pink, or for a skirt anyways.

I had started this post before Christmas. So, rather than this being a picture of
Tamara wearing it, it's a picture from the site I bought it off.

When I say Tamara was the easiest to shop for, I mean the easiest to start shopping for. I had a general idea. Early on I decided I was going to get her a skirt. But there was still a lot I need to figure out, though it would probably be easier to understand how much work I had to put into it if you do a lot of shopping. I needed to pick a brand, color (which wasn't a problem as long as they had it), material, length, you name it. To file in some of the things I needed to pick out, I'll start with the brand. The brand is Marc Jacobs, which is a fine brand so I knew Tamara would love it. The color is obvious, it's pink, and a nice medium pink too. The material is nice satin. Much better than denim if you ask me. Or for a skirt anyway. And that, essentially, was my thought process for getting Tamara's gift. Several other people, once I knew what I was going to get them, I just had to get it. It was more straight forwards, and didn't require a lot of additional work for it. I hope you enjoyed your holidays, I certainly did.

PreChristmas

Hi everyone. Christmas is right around the corner. Even though I've finished most of my shopping, there always seems to be someone who's hard to shop for on the list. Other girls seem to always be easy to shop for, it's the guys that aren't always easy. I guess it's being a girl, that I understand what other girls my age want. I shop for presents for most of the girls in my dorm, but I don't shop for nearly as many guys. I do have some friends that are guys, and I get presents for them, but not as many. There's actually this one guy who is always hard to shop for. His name is David. He likes cooking, but I don't know him well enough to know what cooking supplies he does and doesn't already have.
On a different note, I like at least a dusting of snow on Christmas. We barely got that, but on the other hand it's better than nothing right? I don't think we got that much snow last year either. I remember there have been some Christmas' that I've had a lot of snow on Christmas.
I won't say what I got anyone for Christmas, just encase they read this before they open their gifts since I know several of the people I shopped for read this blog.
The college looks nice. Its got its tree up in the usually spot, on a green next to the library. The library itself has lights along some pillars and a small Christmas tree on some of the desks. There's also a fair size tree in each of the dormitories. Or I've been told about the male dormitory anyways, it's not like I've been in there to see it. All in all, I like the amount of the college that was decorated. Merry Christmas everyone!

Thanksgiving

Hello everyone, and Happy Thanksgiving. Several of my friends have there own places to be today, but I still have several of them left to have a Thanksgiving dinner with. First, the guys went where they were going to go and the rest is having their own guys dinner or something. Of the girls, a few are ready to go in the stores when they open tomarrow. Some of them also went home for Thanksgiving. However, that still left me with several of my girlfriends to have Thanksgiving with. I'm spending Thanksgiving with my friends; Chloe, James, Ellie, and Barnes... Hmm. Now that I list them off the to myself, I realize that there isn't as many of them still here as I initially thought. The 5 of us aren't really good chefs like my friend David is, but we still got together a good meal. I do most of my cooking when camping which left me with a bit of experience cooking certain things. I cook a bit more than hot dogs and hamburgers when camping. With that said, there were a lot of leftovers so I wish Eli or Adam was here to minimize that. Either we will be throwing a lot out, or we will be having leftovers into December. We've got Christmas music running off the radio right now. My favorite Christmas song is John Denver and the Muppets singing The Twelve Days of Christmas.

This is how the turkey came out. I think it came out good.

We also had stuffing and cranberry sauce, the usual stuff that comes with a Thanksgiving meal. I'm certainly full from eating all of that. My friends and I enjoyed ourselves and our meal, how was yours? Hope the rest of you had a great Thanksgiving. Next post I'll probably be talking about getting ready for Christmas.