26 December 2013

HAVE YOURSELVES A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS (or rather, I hope you already did)

Another Christmas come and gone, and I've got to say, it was a rather good one.  Whereas last year was ultimately wonderful, but also highly turbulent, this year was mellow, smooth, a bit on the lazy side, but still great.  We started Christmas Eve with a family dinner of my sister, dad, grandma, and myself, then followed that up with the late night carol-singing service at my dad and grandma's church.  Thoroughly exhausted, we came home and some of us (me) went right off to bed, whilst my dad and sister stayed up late to do some last minute wrapping of presents.

22 December 2013

DISNEY, UNIVERSAL, AND A PUP


Before I knew about the awesomeness of skydiving, Florida meant three things to me: my mom, sun, and Disneyworld/Universal Studios.  So obviously since my sister was coming down this time as well, we HAD to go to the theme parks.  I needed to introduce her to the magic that is The Wizarding World of Harry Potter!  But I'm getting ahead of myself.

20 December 2013

MY NEW FAVORITE HOBBY/the main reason I'll be poor from here on out


So I posted that last post about Greenwich Market in London on the day I left for Florida for five days.  I still have a couple London-y things I want to catch up on but I want to say a bit about this Florida trip first, because it was AWESOME.

I'll recap the majority of the trip in the next post, because I want to talk about one specific part - skydiving!

12 December 2013

A LONDON MARKET AND A BIG OL' SHIP


Holy crap, guys, I completely forgot I had this post already drafted!  Well, that is to say I had the photos uploaded but nothing written.  So I suppose I ought to write a bit about Greenwich now - better late than never, eh?  (Aaaaaaand I just said "eh"... I'm not Canadian, but apparently all I needed was a few days in Canada to become an honorary one.)

11 December 2013

ON SELF-ESTEEM, MOTIVATION, AND A LITTLE SECRET

Last night was the airing of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and personally, it's one of my favourite things about the holiday season.  I always look forward to the VS Fashion Show, and it may be my favourite non-holiday night of the year, to be honest.  I know that some people really give it a lot of flack and bitch about how it kills self esteem, etc.  But for me, it motivates me more effectively than really any other event or thing I've come across.

03 December 2013

CANADIAN SKI-CATION


As I mentioned in my last post and have showcased on Instagram, I spent a long Thanksgiving weekend at Silver Star Mountain Resort in Canada with my extended family for several days of skiing, eating, skiing some more, and eating some more.  It was really fun to see my cousins and aunt and uncle, and to hang out all together with them and our grandma.  It isn't often that we all are able to get together since we live six hours apart and we're all at ages where we each have our own stuff going on, be it school, work, or in my case, being outside the country half the time over the previous two years!  So getting together for American Thanksgiving at Silver Star was really a treat.  

Pin It button on image hover