I don't think I've ever mentioned it to anyone, but I'm the altar server at my church. So today when I went, my priest handed me an envelope as soon as I walked into the door. He normally gives me a little money for Christmas, so I got $50. I feel just slightly rotten, though, because this year my job was constantly scheduling me on sunday mornings, so I tried to serve as much as I could but I missed a lot of sunday masses because of work.

So later today, I went to an old friend of our family's. She's an old lady named Helen who is friends with my parents, and every year we'd go to her house to exchange gifts. Well it slowly went from everyone going to just me going. I spent an hour at her house, us talking about what's been going on, and getting to meet her great-nieces and nephews. She gave me an envelope for the family, so when I got home there was $600 in there. We told Helen not to give us too much because she's been so good to us, but here we are accepting $600 from her. Anyway, I got $100 of it, so I've gotten $150 today.

Today we set up a table in the living room to put the presents on. We normally would put the presents on the couch, but since we have Brandy we don't know how she is going to react with all the stuff on Christmas Day. Other than that, I wrapped my last gift and we have it sitting on the table until Christmas.

So the big news about today is that it's going to go down into 28-30 degrees here tonight. We also supposedly have a 50% chance of rain. I'm praying that it rains, because I would love to see some snow. It's one of the unfortunate things about living so far south in the US that snow is rare here. I've only seen it twice down here, both times being in my childhood. Even just a little bit would be nice to see.

I'm off from work again tomorrow, so I don't know what I will do with the day. It'll be long anyway. Then Tuesday and Wednesday I work so hopefully those days will go by a little quicker. Wednesday will be fun because I plan to wear a set of antlers all day at work . Christmas Eve we are having a "suprise party". Yeah, it's not really a suprise, but it's fun. We basically eat junk food, steaks, ect. before heading to bed. It'll also be Brandy's 1st birthday, so I'll be happy to say that she is a year old in a few days.

I guess that's all I had to say. I've sent my Secret Santa gift as well as a gift for Jen, because she really deserves it for putting the Secret Santa together. It's funny - I was so busy working on my gifts that I almost forgot that I will be recieving something from someone on the list! I'm excited, and very curious as to who got me (please don't spoil it yet if you're reading this ), and I can't wait to see what everyone else gets for the Secret Santa.

And yes, Quad is very excited about Secret Santa!


Quad - "Whatisit?! Whatisit?!"

So yeah...things are already a little crazy here. I have a few more days to wait for Christmas...a few long, long days...