Here come Exams!!!!!!

Life is really not fair at all! This past weekend my sister returned home from college completely stress free and done with her exams. But, as for me; I spent the weekend attempting to study for an AP test and exams with little success. While I was cramming information about the Industrial Revolution and Frederick William IV, my mother and sister were snuggled up eating peanut m and ms and watching White Christmas. Do you realize how hard it is to concentrate when you can constantly hear bits and pieces of a movie from upstairs? It is a constant struggle within your brain to figure out what is happening on the screen while you know you should be studying. Also, over the weekend when my family was running holiday gift errands I was forced to stay at home and “study”. This really just turned out to be mindlessly reading over pages and pages of notes but not absorbing any information. To make things worse I had a cold. Soon this will all be over though. Today is the last full day of school in 2009. What an exhilarating thought. I’ve managed to make it through exams for four years, but this year seems especially difficult. Whether I want it to occur or not, I will be taking exams Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings so I better just do what I attempted to do unsuccessfully all weekend. STUDY!!!!

Christmas!!!!:)

The Christmas season is officially here. Crisp, cool weather, a general feeling of merriness, and of course the yummy seasonal goodies make this time of the year one of my favorites. The feeling you get when you walk into a store prior to Christmas is truly unique. Sometimes there are overwhelming masses of people vying for the early morning sales. While other times when you walk into a decorated boutique and smell a pine scented candle, you feel complete peace and serenity as you peruse the store. One of the new politically correct trends that bothers me is the phrase, "happy holidays" The fact that someone could be offended by something as innocent and simple as the phrase, Merry Christmas, is repulsive. I try to avoid this topic, because it just kinda ruins the mood of the general Christmasy spirit. Visiting a live drive through nativity, singing Christmas carols, and attending our youth PJ's and Carols gathering are just a few of the special events of the season that I enjoy.