hard to believe christmas is almost here! i'm SO excited to give jarred his presents... i was gonna get him tickets to kooza (Cirque du Soleil) but he saw an ad on TV for it and was like OMG WE HAVE TO GO TO THAT! JEREMY YOU WANNA GO WITH US? hehe. and i was planning on getting him tickets to that a WHILE ago b/c he had forgotten that they were coming, but recently they've been showing a lot of ads for it b/c it's coming up SOON.  so, i went to my backup plan which will be just as awesome and even MORE awesome b/c he'll be totally surprised. so yay!  we'll still go to kooza though... tickets are soo expensive so it's probably best if we split them. and i was just gonna get tickets for me and him, so now other ppl can go with us if they want and we can all sit together. it's gonna be amazing. can't wait.

i'm really excited about the gifts i'm giving ppl this year though. i think i did a good job! :) i got my mom a sign language book b/c she's more than likely going to jamaica in the summer and will be working with deaf kids.  she mentioned that she wanted one, so i hope i got her a good one. i also got her dominoes (with mexican train) b/c she and her mom (my grandma!) have been wanting to learn how to play. it's a fun game! it's a surprise too, i know she won't have a clue about that one.  i got my dad a nice wizard of oz movie set... with lotsa bonus features and stuff. i didn't know they freakin stopped "making" that movie so it's extremely hard to find... i don't think it's in stores anymore... i looked everywhere! so i had to spend a TON to get it thru amazon. it was ridiculous! he better like it! haha. my mom was like, "get him the wizard of oz movie... special edition... he's always wanted that movie." so i was thinking oh ok i'll buy him the movie and somethin else. nope. he's just getting that movie... that's how much $$$ it was!!!! he'll appreciate it though, lol.

i still havent picked up anything for loner, aww. keep forgetting. but i gotta run to the store after work to pick up jarred's big present so maybe i can grab somethin for loner toooo.

tomorrow we're eating christmas eve dinner with jarred's mom @ her place. christmas day we're just gonna go to my parent's house for dinner and stuff. then on friday we gotta go to alabama to see jarred's dad. travel travel travel. that's all we ever do. we can't wait til things get back to normal, you know? gosh.

since i last wrote we went to a crazy gwar concert, christmas party @ the sundial, celebrated my dad's bday and went to a nice christmas concert, did some crazy partying (thanks to los loros), hung out w/ a lotta friends, shopped, and went to see jarred's family in gainesville. it's been fun!

the christmas party @ the sundial was amazing.  there was a nice lil jazz band there, but absolutely NO room to dance. it was SOOO packed.  we had to squeeze jarred's firm in there + everyone's guest they brought.  they had lotsa appetizers out and it was free drinks from 7-11:30.  we got ready in the hotel room and got to the party @ around 8 or so.  the guys "stretched" (or as most ppl say it, "pre-gamed") in the hotel room as KT and i put on the final touches! lol. our view from our room was AMAZING. i couldn't believe it! i basically hungout with kt all night... and of course jarred and jerm. but kt and i prob circled the building twice (it spins while you sit/eat) b/c we were talking so much (we were sitting @ a table), lol. and that's a long time! it was funny b/c it was like 11:20 and there was a MAD rush to the bar b/c ppl were wanting to get some drinks before 11:30 hit (and the bartenders were serious about that deadline) so everyone was going up there ordering like 3 drinks @ a time. we did too.  unfortunately though, someone knocked one of my drinks outta my hand and it broke and looked REALLY bad. ugh. luckily most ppl were gone at that point, but still. i was mad! it wasn't my fault though... some random girl's fault.  but luckily we had loaded up on drinks, haha. we finally went back to the room where the guys kept drinking lol and some of their friends came up with us.  i dont remember much at this point but i think kt and i were basically sitting all the way up the the window (it was floor to ceiling windows) taking pictures and talking about who knows what.  we were sooo drunk and going crazy! i think we got on their friend's nerves. o well.)  then later we went to prob the dumbest bar i've EVER seen and hungout for a bit. i had a tonnn of water, mmm. haha. i didn't drink anymore that night, i was at a good buzz so i was good to go! then kt and jerm and i sang "love shack" (they had karaoke lol) and we REALLY sucked. but LOL we really got some of the crowd pumped... this one guy started doing push ups next to us!!! it was so weird!

so that was that! haha. it was a lotta fun. i wish i took more pictures of everyone... but it's mostly just of me, jarred and kt. you'd think that we were the only ones there... that place was extremely crowded though. it kinda sucked in that aspect b/c ppl kept running into each other and spilling drinks, but oh well, it was still awesome. the firm spent $70,000 on the party. and that's no typo. CRAZY.

the day after that we went to a christmas concert @ the church jarred's mom used to go to. it's one of those HUUUUGE churches with an orchestra and everything, lol! we went to the concert last year when jarred's mom sang in the choir and i was completely blown away.  so this yr we got my parents together and met jarred's mom @ the church. it was fun! and the concert was just as great. i hope it becomes a tradition to go there every year.

i feel like we've been going to target EVERY DAY. lol. last night we had to get stuff for my co-workers (i made lil goodie bags and handed out cards) and bought 2 presents for 2 co-workers (neat lil picture frame things).  hopefully we wont hafta go there anymore this week... ugh. i love target, but i'm getting tired of it.

it kinda sucks that we hafta work on christmas eve. it's weird! i feel like i didn't last year, but i guess i did? just doesn't seem like it. we're prob gonna get to leave early that day, but still.

i wrapped a buncha presents last night as we watched re-runs of the big bang theory and how i met your mother... it was fun! i forgot how much i love wrapping presents. there was NOTHING on tv last night, so we watched part of charlie and the chocolate factory (the "new" one)... that movie is so horrible. i've seen it before, but yeah... it sucks.

OH YEAH! we played trivia last wed. and WON! we got $40 @ mellow mushroom! it was amazing! :D and then the next day my friend becky came over and we went to los loros and had a lotta fun as always... then we went home and played seinfeld scene it. it was me and becky vs jarred and jerm! WE WON! wooohooo. jarred and i are pretty awesome at seinfeld trivia, so i was scared to play against him. but becky's a seinfeld nut just like us, so i knew that us together would be great! haha. unfortunately with that game you also have to have a lotta luck... i think jarred and jerm kept rolling bad and stuff. but still... weeee wonnnn :P hehe.  @ first the original bet was whoever won had to makeout w/ each other... and uh becky and i were like umm no thanks. haha.  but MAN i wish we stuck with the bet cuz then jarred and jerm woulda had to... nevermind... that woulda been disgusting. GROSS! ew ew ew. i think they just wanted to see us kiss (well, jerm anyway) but nope, haha, don't think so.

speaking of girls kissing girls... our friend laura is a lesbian lol and she's visited us a few times, but she has suchhhhhhhhhh a crush on me. it's weird!! she always calls me baby hahahaha and always tells me how hot i am and stuff. i mean, it's flattering LOL but so strange! she's only like that when she's drunk though. but we were taking pictures on sat. night when she was over, and she was kissing me on the cheek and stuff and trying sooo hard lol to actually KISS me lolol. jarred just thinks it's funny and stuff. she like threw me on the couch when we were posing for a picture and idk what she was tryin to do, haha. she said she doesnt remember any of that though... she was SOO drunk. gosh. she had two jumbo margaritas by herself and she's TINY. she's almost exactly my size. i'd die if i drank that much.  she definitely didn't need it. we had fun tho... kt and natalie were there so we were singing and dancing all night @ the house... while laura wanted to take pics every 5 mins, lol. then we went to graveyard bar in east atl and talked all night. jarred (begrudgingly) and laura went to the lesbian bar to find her a girl. he didn't wanna be there (none of us did, plus it was $7 to get in) but he went anyway, kinda my fault though b/c i thought he wouldnt mind going so i kinda volunteered him to. i feel bad now ;( she didn't find anyone there and then they finally came back to the bar @ around 2:30 and we left.  couldn't find jeremy ANYWHERE of course, so we had to wait. lol.  on the way to the bar haha we always sing songs in the car... well we sang some head automatica, but then i grabbed the ipod and played "one of us" by Joan Osborne and everyone was singing @ the top of our lungs... we were pulling into the parking lot singing to everyone haha everyone was laughing. it's fun doing that.

soooooooooo things have been fun lately. :D just the same ol' same ol' i guess.

oh and now jarred and i are saving up for 2 new laptops (PC and Mac for me) and i wanna canon digital slr ($700 ugh). hopefully we can get those one of these days!!!!!

hope everyone has a very happy holiday! MERRY CHRISTMAS!