I officially love to blog. Seriously.

Well well well...

I never thought I would ever say this, but I really like my blog. Maybe a little bit too much, but whatevs (as my aunt Lisa or Jayne would say). And no I did not just change the settings again, just because I like to mess around with my blog.

Lets just say I am quite content with life at the moment :)

I didn't have to work today (at one of the best places EVER! Golden Corral), and I was able to relax most of the day. Tonight I got a fabulous, wonderful, amazing, incredible and marvelous email, which made my whole day tons better.

I am currently still saving for the wonderful Sweden :) I even resisted to buy flamin hot cheetos (with a hint of lime) last night at Wal-Mart! All of you should be very proud, I'm not gonna lie. Unfortunately I had to buy gas last night. Darn all this growing up. Sorry if I talk about Sweden too much! There are only a couple things on my mind lately, and that is one of them. Those of you who know me very well know that the 2nd thing is :)

I didn't talk much about my Christmas, did I.

Well, I have grown to really love Christmas! Growing up I started to dread all the same songs I've been hearing for almost eternity it seems like. Now I have definitely grown to LOVE everything about Christmas. I found it was a lot easier to love CHRISTmas, centering my life around Christ. I found that being a college student, its extremely easy to get self-centered. I need to save money, I need to buy this book, I need to study for this test, I need to do this homework now, I NEED to get that guys number (haha that doesn't really fit but who cares!), I need a job, I need a good paying job to pay for everything, etc... You get the point eh? So in conclusion Christmas came at the right time, just when I needed it. Also, I think its very crazy when people want to say "X-mas", it just doesn't sound right to me.

Anyways, I know I've talked about my family a lot while doing the blog challenge, but not a whole lot about my extended families! On my moms side, for our Christmas celebrations we have the "grab-bag". I'm pretty sure its been a family tradition for forever. 

We eat dinner, then put all of our chairs in one huge circle and grab a wrapped present! All the men take turns pushing a wheelbarrow around our giant circle until all the presents, that the women have wrapped previously of course, are all gone! Next we try and trade the things we're not interested in, and lets just say things can get slightly heated trying to get what everyone wants!! 

It is a great family tradition to do on Christmas eve, and we've been doing it for as long as I can remember. My grandma is such a party-animal its insane (is that where I get all my party-planning genes from?...). She loves to get us all together as a family! Man I love that lady.

Now on my dad's side, it is much smaller. All we do is eat and make fun of people my dad and aunts went to high school with! Its a lot of fun going to my aunts house, its very chill. 

We don't start all our conversations making fun of people, thats usually just how it ends. 

Aunt Jayne and Lisa if you're reading this you know its true! 

But its fun :) I like hearing about their past lives, and how my dad was the perfect child. This side of my family is awesomely-crazy, but I still love them!

Now I'm going to wrap this baby up, finally.