So the "holiday season" will soon be over. I have mixed feelings about it. I guess for some reason I didn't really get "into the spirit" of things...well, except when I was reading Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Treasury (it was a gift, thank you very much).

Anyways, yesterday was okay. I spent the day stress-free for the most part, NOT like Thanksgiving at all. I made four dishes: honey glazed ham (I made the glaze all on my own, without a recipe), rosemary potatoes, chocolate pie and chocolate cake. So I wasn't running around frantically, until my psycho mother came home and started calling me worthless again.

**Side story: The next destination for my student teaching is Norcross HS. It's about 30 minutes from my house, so I've been thinking about moving towards that direction. Once I told my parents about moving out, my mother pounced on me and said, "Well, if you move out, you have to take your sister with you. We don't want you in the house anyway." So last night when she came home, she got super psycho about cleaning the house and cooking. Well, at least that's what it started out as. Then it became, "What have you been doing all day, I bet you were watching tv all day, why didn't you clean like I told you to, you don't ever do anything to help out, you wanna move out, but with the money that you pay for rent you could help us, but you don't ever think about helping us out, blah, blah, blah." And then she went on to scream about how I get to do whatever I want, never putting my parents' needs into consideration. SIGH...yeah, that made me feel really good.

So after that episode, our guests came, and of course, she put on her fucking friendly face like nothing bad ever happens in our house. I FUCKING HATE IT WHEN SHE DOES THAT. ARRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....

On a brighter note, here's what I got for Christmas: a really cute purse from the GAP, a purse from GUESS that looks like it used to belong to a dominatrix, two cookbooks, some cool "rosemary and mint" scented stuff from AVEDA (I told Andrew that it's gonna make me smell like the potatoes in the oven), a sweater, Allure from Chanel (YAAAAAAAY!!!), the Chicken Soup for the Soul book, an ornament, a sewing board, candy...and I think that's it.

Anyways,