the ice club and the blood red hand.

christmas is sneaking up, and i've just now finished my christmas shopping for my family. i think i shall simply have to make cookies for all my friends and deliver them when school begins again, because i have no money.
at all.

the mall was absolutely insane today, it took twenty minutes to get out of the parking lot.
my dad was swearing like a sailor, and i found it rather amusing.

we had two snow days, thursday and friday, which would have been totally exciting, except for the fact that it snowed. and snowed. and snowed. oh, and snowed a little more. so i've basically been stuck in my house. we did go sledding on thursday, then took a half hour ride in the back of the truck (alex, melody, molly, kacie, and i) because the van is not fit for driving in this weather. it was a fun ride, though. we waved and said hello to everyone we met, and we got some looks for driving in the back of the truck down broadway and pines and university and etc.

when we left my house to go sledding, we passed by the dryer pipe, and there was this huge icicle stalagmite, and it was like two feet long and thick, so i snapped it off the ground, and carried it with me, and when we went to our neighbors' to ask to borrow a sled, i brandished my club at them and roared. it was sweet.

and now it's saturday, and officially christmas break, and i went to the mall and finished up my shopping. i'm rather pleased with myself and my gifts.

on thursday night, alex and i made some cookies, involving red food dye, and i put it all over my hands, then gave myself red handprints like in pocahontas on my face.
but then it stayed on.
so yesterday, i found the mr. clean magic eraser, a perfectly new one, and thought "hm. why not?" and so i scrubbed it all off my hands, and it worked wonderfully, so i scrubbed it all off my face too. and i ended up giving myself a homemade dermabrasion on both of my cheeks, but today only my right cheek is still bright red and shiny. alex said it looks like someone punched me in the face. i decided to try some aloe vera on it yesterday, when it was freshly scrubbed, to cool the burn. well, i forgot that aloe vera stuff has alcohol in it, and it burned my face so bad i just about started crying and barely held in my swearing. i did screech and do a weird hoppy thing around the bathroom though, then i took a wet washcloth and gently took off the aloe. it was terrible.

so christmas is in...five days? and i can't wait. i'm pretty darn sure it'll be a white christmas, but hopefully i get to hang out with some people over vacation. maybe. if i'm lucky.

i think i'll be done now.

"when santa's sleigh bells ring

i listen all around
the herald angels sing
i never hear a sound."
-the polar express kids, when christmas comes to town

that song is lovely, but it makes me sad.