Invading Belgium

It's beginning to look alot like...not Christmas

Happy Birthday Kristin !!!

Yes, my ‘big’ sister is finally all growed up. Theoretically I guess :P

I have to say that I really do pity you all in Alberta, freezing your buns off. I pity you because next year when I’m back there I wont be used to it and I’ll be doubly as frozen and looking for pity myself!

Here, the weather is delightful, really. I think it gets below 0° at night, but when I got to school this morning it was 2°. Then when I got off school at 1.30 I was standing in the sun waiting for the bus and took off my jacket...too hot :P

Okay, I’ll stop now before you all pool your money and hire a hitman.

So, I just want to say that Christmas is coming! Ok, not exactly a news-flash, but I get yelled at everytime I say it here because...St.Nicholas isn’t over yet. For those of you who are St. Nicholas deprived, allow me to enlighten you.
December 6th. I now think of this day as a Christmas warm-up, a practice run if you will. What happens is a big guy in a red suit with a white beard comes around and gives all the kids toys and candy. You call him Santa and he’ll hit you though. There are slight differences between Santa and Ole St. Nick, the most obvious being that St. Nick wears a large red and gold hat in the style usually favored by the Pope, which wouldn’t have been nearly as easy for the Grinch to cut out. Apart from that the differences are...uh, ‘subtle’ to the untrained eye.
For instance, Santa favours Rudolf and his 8 bullies, while St. Nick, being a Saint and all, opted for the cheaper, easier to maintain single Donkey to load up his toys on.
And no Saint in his right mind would use the midget slave labour Santa promotes. Nope, for St. Nick it’s another elderly fellow who follows the donkey around (I hope he has a pooper-scooper) with what was described to me as ‘a stick with lots of pieces of leather on the end.’ Yes boys and girls, you had better be good this year ‘cause St. Nick’s got God to keep an eye on if you’ve been good or bad, and he’s got whip. No getting off easy with a lump of coal this year I suppose.

Ive been told the decorations are different too. I got excited in the grocery store because the Christmas stuff was out, but was quickly corrected and told id have to wait until they took down the St. Nicholas stuff to see my beloved Christmas stuff.

I rebelled by putting up Christmas lights in my room and downloading more Christmas music.
Hey, does anyone know a Notary Public I can get to sign this thing saying I’ve been good this year? You know...just in case.

posted by Lissa @ 7:17 AM