December 7 :)

Ok...there are some days when I just totally fail. Thankfully, today was not one of those days, but I wish it had been better :P I got to sleep in (yayy!!) but I woke up and realized that I'd missed four texts from a friend I'd told the night before I'd text. It was...kind of an emergency, so I felt TERRIBLE :S Not a great feeling to wake up and realize you fail :/ Thankfully, she was ok, and I was able to move on with my day. I washed dishes (ugh) and spilled a pot of soapy water all over the floor. After I cleaned that up, I remembered that I'd left a load of laundry in the washer over night. So I went and restarted that before sitting on my couch and finishing the last Lord of the Rings movie and crying my eyes out at the end.

When that was over, I came in to make my dinner/dessert....

December 7: Eat dessert for dinner

This is what I decided on...because fudge is DELISH! They came of the oven looking great...but they I tried to cut them up :/ BEHOLD! THE BROWN SLOP!

I know, I know...it looks AWFUL! They were in the oven for 45 minutes, and they STILL came out undercooked! I keep trying to tell people, but they won't believe me...I. can't. cook. But whatever...at least nobody else had to eat it...just me :P And then I made the BIGGEST mistake EVER!...

I started drinking this...                             ...instead of this.

I'm telling you...epic fail. NEVER drink anything but milk with brownies...it doesn't turn out very well :S

But now it's done...I finished off my brownies and milk, and now I'm preparing myself for a really REALLY long night at work! And when I say long, I mean 5:30-midnight long :S Ugh...I don't want to be there that late!! And the bad news is that I have to do it all over again on Saturday! On Sunday, I'm scheduled to work from 4-11, which is ALMOST as bad, but not quite. I'm going to try and change my Sunday schedule, though, so I can go to the piano party that my professor is having. I really really REALLY want to go!! Hopefully someone at work will be willing to switch schedules with me :S Ciao!

December 6 :)

Ok...I have something to confess...I didn't take a picture of today's activity. AHHHH!!! I KNOW!! SO SHOOT ME!! lol...

December 6: Give a gift to your favorite teacher

Since I didn't take a picture of it, I'll just tell you what I came up with. First of all, my teacher. She's my piano professor...I think I told you a little bit about her in yesterday's post. She really is amazing, and I love love LOVE her! So I made her something :) I got this little black frame and made it all sparkly by gluing glitter around it. Then I framed a piece of lined paper in it, and wrote "Thank you <3" on it with a dry erase marker! It actually came out pretty cute :)

Anyways...that's my post for today :P Tomorrow I'm going to eat dessert for dinner...and it's going to be AMAZING!! You should all do it with me :) I already have an idea for what I'm going to eat, but it's going to be a surprise! You'll see when I stick the picture on. It's gonna be a little tough eating dessert for dinner...when I won't even be around for dinner...

Tomorrow and Saturday I'll be working from 5:30-midnight! Ughhhh...it's gonna be a looooong night :S But hey..I'm a night owl anyways, so it shouldn't be too bad. It's going to be disgustingly boring, though :/ I'm not looking forward to that part. But hey...like someone told me today, at least they're paying me :)

And as an added bonus, since I forgot a picture, here's a random movie of me and my best friend answering random questions :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BffpCCuh4ZE

December 5 :)

Such an awesome day!! Finally got to sleep in...and it was awesome :) Kristen came and slept over last night, and we actually made a blanket fort in my kitchen, so we slept in it :P It's kind of nice pretending to be a kid again...I forgot how much fun blanket forts were! I had a tiny string of Christmas lights, so we hung those in there too...sooo cool! On top of that, I'd never seen the Little Mermaid before, so at 2 in the morning, we watched it :) Good times, good times...

We also went to the Loop today and ate lunch at Wendy's cuz we were both DYING to get out of the house! That was fun :) Umm...let's see...what else went on today...

Oh! Today was my friend's birthday!! Dude...he's one of my bestest friends in the whole world. He's one of those friends who sticks with you through everything, ya know? He turned 15 today...hard to believe! I remember wayyyy back in the day when we used to babysit him and his brothers and he'd be crying in his pack n' play for his pacifier, then his mom, then his pacifier again. It was so sad :'( But thankfully he's outgrown the well-loved "passy" and now he's 15. Happy Birthday, little bro <3

Kris helped me do today's activity which was....

December 5: Decorate one of the the doors in your house all Christmasy!

Chris did todays activity with me, and I have to admit, I'm

jealous of the red door he has in his house! Dude...red

doors are AHHHMAZING!

                                  Here's my door!                               And the ribbon looks TERRIBLE!
                                                                                              But whatever...lol...I tried :P

So those are our doors! Thanks to Kris and Chris (Kris and Chris...lol :P ) for helping me out! They look great! :D

Tomorrows activity is to give a gift to your favorite teacher. I'm still not sure how I'm going to do this one, but I know which teacher I want to give a gift to. Christina Dietrich...my piano professor. She's absolutely FABULOUS...she's an amazing teacher and a great friend :) There are only a couple more weeks of class, but thankfully, I'll be spending all next semester with her too! She asked me to help tutor in her piano 1 class next semester, and I am SO PSYCHED! On top of that, I'm also taking advanced piano with her...super exciting :D It's gonna be a crazy busy (but crazy FUN) semester :)

Well, babes, I'm off once again! I've been trying to go through all the Lord of the Rings movies in order to prepare myself for The Hobbit. I've seen them all before, but I watched them all out of order :S I watched the second one years and years ago, then the first one, then the third one with my dad and Kalen. I loved them all, but I didn't really understand the whole story. So I decided to start over :)

I managed to get all three movies for under $5 each (yayy!) so I'm watching them all now :) I saw the first one a couple of days ago, and I'm watching the second one now. I have to admit, I'm finding it rather funny... practically memorized Lord of the Beans, so some of the lines are cracking me up. "We ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinkin' days!" Lol...too funny :) Ttyl!!

December. 4 :)

Ok...I have to admit...I didn't make breakfast this morning :S I accidentally woke up late and had to literally RUN out the door so I wouldn't be late for school! I kinda felt bad about it...because I really wanted to stick to my blog really well, but I messed up :/

The good news is, I made breakfast for dinner!! Kristen came over to sleep over, so we made colored pancakes together :)

December 4: Make your breakfast in Christmas colors!

I know, I know...the batter looks disgusting and the pictures are terrible, but I got my point across, right?? Make sure you do your activity tomorrow...cuz IT'S GOING TO BE SO MUCH FUN!! Decorate a door in your house all Chrismasy! I bought ribbon the other day, so I'm all prepared...and Krissy is going to help me!! Yayy :D

December 3 :)

Well, another crazy day at work :/ But I have good news! I have three days off now!! Tchyawww!! Only thing is, I have school on Tuesday and Thursday :/ But that's not too bad, since I'm done early in the afternoon, so I can just chill at home :)

I don't have a lot of time to write tonight...got TONS of homework to do before 8:30 tomorrow :S But here was today's activity...

December 3: Make a paper chain in Christmas colors and hang it somewhere in your house.

Here's Chris's paper chain! It looks awesome! :D

And here's mine :) 

Tomorrow's activity is to color your breakfast Christmas colors :P This one is going to be fun :) I remember doing this when I was a little kid...my mom used to color me and my sister's food, and I always thought it was so fun :) So let's do it again, yeah??

December 2 :)

I know, I know...at this point, it's pretty much December 3rd, but I haven't said goodnight to December 2nd yet, so this post will count as the 2nd :P

Today was absolutely CRAZY today! Well...nothing new...it's been crazy for a few long days now :/ Don't get me wrong...I really LOVE my job, but it's getting to be that time of year when either everyone is really happy, or really REALLY grouchy :/ Unfortunately, I seem to get all the grouchy customers! Ugh...I'm just throwing this out there to people who are shopping for Christmas this year! We retail workers are people too! We have feelings, and if you yell at us, we don't enjoy it! Just keep that in mind :)

Sooo...catching up on the December 1st post, Chris Eddun sent me his letter to Santa!! Here it is!

Fantastic job, Chris, thank you for sending it to me :) Guys, isn't that just awesome?? You can still send yours in if you have one! I'll still put it up :)

And now on to today's activity...

December 2: Make a Christmas drawing and decorate it with glitter!

If you can't tell those are ornaments, go back to Christmas school :P I wish you could tell how much glitter is actually on that...because I put a LOT of glitter on it! I love love LOVE sparkles, so I kind of overdid it :P But now it's hanging out in my hallway so I can see it every time I come home!

Well, it's very VERY late at this point, and I have to get up for work tomorrow :/ Ugh...wish me luck! Tomorrow is December 3rd and the activity is to make a paper chain with Christmas colored paper and hang it somewhere in your house. I haven't make a paper chain in sooooo long, so I'm really looking forward to this one :D I hope everybody can do it! 

Now...off to bed! 

December 1 :)

So the official Christmas countdown begins!! Who else is excited?!?! I am :D Holidays are so amazing! I can't say I had a fantastic first day of December...work was pretty crummy :/ But who cares?! It snowed on the first day of the holiday month...what more could I ask for?

Now that the best month EVER has started, let's get going with the Christmas month fun! Guess what, peoples?? I have someone who's taking pictures with me :D Isn't that awesome?? So now EVERYBODY has to join in! It just so happened that we both got our pictures by a Christmas tree, so that's going to be the "picture of the month!" If you have a picture of you in front of a Christmas tree, send it to me...and then I'll stick it up on my blog for everyone to see :D (email me at missmarlymae@gmail.com)

 The wonderful Chris Eddun :)

 The Christmas Tree before it was lit                The Christmas tree after it was lit!!

So HA! Now we have two Christmas trees up! Send me your Christmas tree pics, pleeease :D

Now to the official business! According to the 24 activities list...

December 1: Write a letter to Santa

And there's my letter to Santa :P I wanted to have a longer list, but I realized that I don't have very much that I wanted/needed! That's actually a pretty good feeling :) If you write a letter to Santa, send me a picture! I'd love to see it :)

Hope everyone had a FANTASTIC December 1st :) Tomorrow the activity is making a Christmas drawing and using glitter. If you don't do it, you have no valid excuse...glitter is AMAZING! Plus, I like to see creativity...hit me with it!