Hello All!! I had a very merry christmas this year. It was really nice to go to SJ and see the family. I received alot of really nice gifts this year, thanks alot! :) Gizmo is in Freddy with me right now. She was itching alot so mom and I took her to the vet yesterday. Turns out we were bathing her to much. The baths stripped her skin of all the protective oils that a dog needs. We got her some pills and new shampoo. Luckily, we had a free visit, so we didn't have to pay to see the vet. I bought some new belts today when I went to Zellers. The one I bought at the leather shop in the Fredericton mall busted up, then the owner gave me a new (better) one to replace it. That one tore in half while I was home! So I went and looked at Zellers and found a black and brown one that fit nicely and will probably last longer. I used a gift certificate that Sam had given me for Suzy Sheir and bought a black suit on Boxing day. Gizmo and Snowball are getting along nicely. Gizmo seems to be tired or something, maybe it's from the meds she is taking. She would hardly walk over to Zellers with me. She has been snoozing all afternoon and evening too. Hmm.... We arrived in SJ on Friday and went to our parents homes. Mom and Richard got some lobster on Saturday, mmm....lobster....it was awesome! Sam and I went over to his parents house for Christmas eve. They had a big family get together. Barb had made a whole wack of trays of food and sweets. She gave Sam and I a whole tray of sweets to bring to my parents house with us, we ate the whole thing that night! We were at my parents house for Christmas day. We opened our presents when we got up and Sue, Darren and Cole came over alittle later to open their gifts. Cole just ripped through his! Mom made an awesome Turkey dinner on Christmas day. It was really nice, the whole family was there. Boxing day, mom, Sue, Cole and I went over to Nanny Lawrences house in the afternoon to see her and grampy and to drop off presents. Nanny bought Sam and I some nice things. She gave us some storage containers, a silver clock, and some cute tea pot shaped ornaments. Anyway I gotta do some dishes up...write later...:)

I found out what was going onwithn Snowball. She's not sick. She was under the end table necause I had used her bamboo basket to block off th4e area behind the dryer where she likes to jump. She likes eating the bamboo basket. She's been back there picking at the basket all along!! Silly rabbit!! I have to get some stuff ready for when she comes to SJ with us for Christmas. I think I'll go and get her some treats for Christmas and just cause she is a nice bunny. I'm very excited about Christmas this year, I got everyone something that they either needed or wanted and told me. I also got some awesome deals on some of the items, because parts of the Fredericton mall closed down and had lots of closing out sales. Sam has got to go over to the pet store and get some feeding tabs for his fish tanks. He works 7:20am-7:30pm on Thursdays. I hated working 12 hour shifts when I did it at the Hilltop, but he doesn't mind, he gets a couple of them every week. I left work early last night. I told my supervisor I wasn't feeling well, but that was only a little part of it. We were calling in texas and they are 4 hours before us, so even though we were calling at 8pm, it was only 4pm there and no one was home. So, we were just getting alot of answering machines, which was really boring. The people in Texas are very nice though when you do get to talk to them. They all thanked me for calling, saying that they appreciated my call but weren't interested in the phone package, and to have a merry Christmas. I made 2 sales anyway. The first one I made on my 5th call of the night. I had worked an extra 45mins that day and 49 mins the day before, so leaving early still didn't hurt my overall hours. Today I'm just sitting back and relaxing, I think Jackie has today off as well, so I'm going to give her a call and we'll hang out for awhile. Anyway gotta go shower, write later.....:)

I went to work on Monday and won 15$ when my supervisor drew my work number, and won 15$ yesterday for having top sales on my team for the night. I work tonight and then I'm off until January 3 or 4th. I checked my greades online today and I did great this semester. I got the highest GPA I've ever gotten!! Last year I ended the year with a 3.14 gpa, this semester I got a 3.48!! Woohoo!! I am so excited. Sam was at work and so was mom, so I ran over and told Pat, she gave me a big hug and congratulated me. I'm just sitting here, in my own happy bubble, it's great! I gotta go make something to eat for work, write later! :)

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way!!.....One week until Christmas! I am so excited. I work today, tomorrow and Wednesday, I'm taking Thursday off and we are going to SJ Friday. I have to call mom and check to see what time she is coming to get us. Snowball has been acting kinda weird. When I let her out of her cage for a hop she just goes under the end table and hides in the corner by the couch. She usually races around the livingroom like a nut, but the last two days....hmm.....I hope she's not sick. She's still eating her food and stuff so I don't know what's going on with her. I wonder when the marks have to be in? I keep checking, but so far nothing. Which is rather diappointing, I figured they would be in by now.Sam got to sleep in today, since he didn't have to work until 11am, so he stayed up until 4am this morning playing his game!! I went to bed at 1am like usual. I'm feeling well rested and alot better. I still have a cough and stuffy nose, but no headache anymore. Anyway I'll write later,.....:)

I felt alot better on Friday, so I went into work. I did well enough, got 4 sales. They sent everyone home early at about 10:20pm. I start early and then leave early for the bus, so I didn't loose any time anyway. They have been sending us home early alot lately. Last Friday I only worked 4 hours before they told us we could leave. I just don't feel like going in today, it's the day shifts Saturday to work, but I was going to go in to make up some of the hours I missed in November,except I don't feel like it now and I'm the only one who seems to care about making up hours. They have gotten kinda weird about working hours. One day supervisor told me I couldn't start early (like I do every day), so I had to run all the way to the bottom floor to ask Kevin, he said I could, so then I had to go back up to the third floor and tell the supervisor it was o.k. Charlene, my supervisor, told me if I ever have any trouble working different shifts, just say that she told me I could, that would get me further than anything else. I don't mind working there, it's really easy, and alot of the time I talk to nice enough people. Yesterday I called a guy and sold him a phone package, he told me he was blind and all about his brother helping him out. He was very nice. I'm going to work on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Charlene said they were going to send people home early on Thursday, so I don't think I'll bother going in. The centre is closed from December 23-January 2nd. So I don't have to start work as soon as I get back to Fredericton, that'll be nice. I'm all done all of my Christmas shopping,woohoo! I am really excited about this Christmas. I think it will be very enjoyable. Snowball is doing great!! I think she will enjoy going to SJ with me as well. Her and Gizmo get along nicely. Anyway I'm going to go get another coffee and give Jackie a call......:)

I am SO sick! It hurts to breath, move, cough, and especially to talk. I'm not going into work today. I wouldn't make any sales anyway, cause when I do talk I sound like some sort of raspy monster, then I would loose my voice and be sent home anyway, so why bother? I went and bought some Buckleys cough and cold stuff, but it doesn't seem to be having as good of an effect on my sickness as the other pills I was taking, so I think I'll switch back and buy some more. It's to bad that I got sick, cause it would be nice to go into work and make up the hours I need and money of course. Hopefully I'll be feeling better by tomorrow. We put up our Christmas tree last night, and by 'we' I mean I did, Sam really wasn't in the Christmas mood, but I was, so he helped a little. It's just a little tree, so it didn't take very long. (unlike the gynormous trees that Lisa and Anthony get, how long doe sit take you to decorate?).Anyway I'm gonna go take a shower, put some clean P.J's on and go to bed. Write later :(

Anne and I went and got our grad pictures taken this morning. They turned out nice. I'm growing my hair out and I just had it trimmed by Sue not that long ago, so I just straightened it out and put some clips in, I thought it looked nice. Anne said that she was glad that I wore my hair down and it looked good. It was a really good price for the pictures. To get them done by "Harper" studios at school it's 40$ just to sit in front of the guy. Anne and I got the same package and we could pick how many wallets, 5 x 7's, 4x 6's, etc that we wanted. We got 3 poses and 7 sheets of prints to make into what ever combination we wanted, and it was only $34!! For one of Anne's poses we just did a wacky one with the two of us together. We are going to go pick them up tomorrow probably, if not, then maybe after Christmas when both of our schedules are less hectic. I made sure that I got one 5x7 in black and white for mom (well the black and white looked funny, but it's like an antique kinda look, I think it will still be alright). I'm almost done my Christmas shopping, hard to believe it's less than two weeks away. Gill and I decided to not exchange presents this year, cause neither of us needed anything, instead we are going to get together after Christmas, buy each other one of the ridiculously large drinks at Mikes to start and just have a good drinking night, which will result (hopefully) in us both getting ridiculously drunk!:) Gill recently quit work at the CIBC, she wasn't going to get any break for Christmas, and it really is the only time she gets to see them, so she quit. She said she was getting sick of the hours (nights) she was working and had saved up enough money to get by for awhile. So....I'm sitting here...not doing a heck of alot, I have a cold and my throat is really sore...so I'm debating on whether to go into work tonight or not (I usually work Wed and Fri, but I need to make up hours so I've been going in on my days off). I really should decide soon, I don't know if I need to call and tell them I won't be in (cause it is my day off??hmm...). I'm very excited for this Christmas, I don't know why, but I am. We should put up our Christmas tree today while I'm home and Sam is off today!!!! That is exactly what we'll do!! :) dashing through the snow...ba..da..bup..bup...bup.. bah..!! I'm gonna go get him right now!! Happy holidays everyone!! :)

Sorry about being a slack updater. I've been working lots to make up for the hours I missed in November. Friday and Saturday were good days at work. Saturday I won a chocolate bar and some mini kisses for making sales. Sam and I rented the movie "superman" Friday night and went and had subs at subway (which made no sense at all cause we had just bought groceries and sandwich stuff). It was a good movie, lots of action and neat stunts. Today Gill and I got together and just ended up hanging out here and talking for a couple of hours. We've decided to buy each other one of the ridiculously large drinks at Mikes after Christmas as a belated Christmas gift. BTW what is your blog thing that you write on Gill? Do I need to sign up and become a member to view your posts? For future reference to any of my blog viewers, my number is (506) 454-5431. I wrote to one of my professors about handing in an assignment a couple of hours late. It's due at 9am on Tuesday, but Anne and I are going to go get our grad pictures done that day and I asked if it was o.k to drop it off when I was done with the pictures, she wrote me back and said it was fine to do that. Anne has an exam that day, so we're just going to share a cab down and back, but go to the school for her exam and for me to hand in the assignment, so it works out really well. I'm goin got finish writing the assignment tomorrow. I kinda have one part of it done already, it's for a woman and law class, and I already wrote a paper on Divorce law for a gender studies class, so I'm gonna tweek that and use it. :) The other question we can do is on sexual assault laws, and it just so happens that I have done some work on sexual assault for other classes and for this one as well. See....in second year, when I decided to do a minor in crim, I would always do any assignments on sexual assault (its always offered as a choice)...so that when we were assigned things...I already had research and essays written about the topic. Later, when I decided I would do a major in crim, this continued to help me. For example...in my crime and the media class that I took this summer, guess what topic I did for my major assignment? Sexual assault, I made an entire webpage in one day! Sam and I went over to Boston Pizza for supper tonight. I had told him I would treat him to supper on Monday as a belated Birthday gift. We went today instead. The food was pretty good, but I think we both enjoy eating at Smitty's better though. Well I'm going to go let the bunny out for a hop (thanks for agreeing with me on the Snowballs greatness Sue!!) Write later...:)

I had my qualitative research methods exam today. I figured the final exam would be ridiculously difficult because my professor (Dawne Clarke) said that the midterm was to easy and that she would have to make the final harder. It was no harder!! I'm glad I read the "Dealing Crack" book yesterday, cause 60% of the exam was on that. Yes the book is called dealing crack. Crack is a ridiculously addictive drug, thankfully it didn't last long, wasn't to popular after people seen the effects it had on a person. I only have one more thing due, on the 12th of December, then I'm done!! Woohoo!! The thing that is due, isn't going to be that hard to write anyway. I'm going to go out with Jackie this evening before I meet Sam to get groceries, we are all out of almost everything, we both have been so busy though, we just didn't have time to go get anything. We went to Sams staff party on Monday. It was really nice. It was at the Elks club. The owner had booked a DJ and ordered six or seven different kinds of pizza (he owns a pizza delight, KFC, and some other restaurants other than Mikes), we got drink tickets to. Sam decided to work on Monday, so he got 2 extra drink tickets too. They had an auction type thing with monopoly money. We bid and got a certificate for a pizza and garlic cheese fingers, 3 movie rentals at jumbo video, a 40$ gift certificate for Marks work warehouse, and two quarter chicken dinners at Swiss Chalet! Not bad for monopoly money! Actually, Sam went to Marks work warehouse yesterday and got himself a new pair of jeans and bought me a pair of awesome slippers!(I always steal his, cause they are big and floppy and have a nice bottom) My new slippers are better than his slippers!! :) We seen Jackie's boyfriend Mike there as well, he bid on stuff too, hmm....I wonder what he got? Sam got a cell phone for his birthday when he went home to see his mom on her birthday. He doesn't need one, he's here or at work...but he wants to pay for it so.....can't tell him any different...;) Snowball is doing great being a bunny, she is very friendly...if I sit on the floor (to block her from going under the end table) she comes over and sniffs me, and hops onto my lap, same thing when I sit on the couch. Tomorrow is Sam's 27th birthday! I work Friday and then he works on Saturday and Sunday, but I'm going to take him out to dinner on Monday. Oh I didn't write about this, but I was talking to Gill over a week ago (on msn) and we made plans to have a "Gill & Krista" day this Sunday. It will be nice to see her, I hardly ever do now that she is done school and lives down the hill. I was thinking about it, and she is the friend that I have known the longest out of all my friends. (13 1/2 years!). That's crazy. We don't see each other very often, but I still consider her to be a good friend. Anyway I gotta get ready, Jackie will be calling soon, write later :)

I was feeling so sad cause no one had commented on any of my posts for the past month. I went in and checked my comments and for some reason I had to approve them before they got published. Now there are a wack of comments and I don't feel neglected!! :) I haven't read any of them yet, but still just to know they are there is great. I'll read all of them after this post. I don't know why I needed to approve them first, I've never had to do that before, I'll keep checking to see if I need to in the future. I work, so I gotta get ready...but keep the comments coming!! :)