T-minus 24 days!

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it's december!! this means it's almost christmas!! so i decided to make a list of my favourite christmas things that i'm excited about. tee hee. ok!
number one: Christmas movies!! ok, there are some truly great Christmas movies out there. A Christmas Story if awesome, a total family classic. "You'll poke your eye out!" ahahahaha. Also, I love "Elf" and am so happy that I'm allowed to watch it now (I'm kind of a stickler about only watching Christmas movies when it's Christmas...). Also, I always watch Anne of Green Gables, Serendipity and You've Got Mail at Christmastime. Ooh, and Little Women. I dunno why I watch them at Christmas, but, I do.. :)
Number two: Christmas treats. Actually, this really gets narrowed down to the nuts and bolts my mom makes. She makes it in this huuuuuge pot and splits it up into containers and hides them to try and keep us from eating it. It's soooo good. Mmmm.
Number three: doing the advent calendar. We have the coolest advent calendar ever, my aunt hand-made it for us years and years ago. It's got a Christmas tree on it, and all these pockety things with different tree decorations in them. It's very cool. I love it.
Number four: Snow! snow snow snow snow snow!
Number five: Picking out our Christmas tree. In our family, we try to go out to this farm in Steveston and cut down our own tree. Yes, we're very butch. The place we usually go to has a bonfire and after we're gotten our tree (and it has to be a huge tree otherwise it's just not good) we roast hot dogs and have hot apple cider. yum. then we come home and decorate our tree. Hopefully we'll do that this year, too. Last year we waited way too long to get a tree and I think my dad bought it somewhere. boo.
Ok, those are the first things that come to mind. I won't bother completing the list because, well, it would probably be too long. heh heh heh. And now, I'm off to study my brains out for my 3 finals I have next week (something about Christmas I do not look forward to!!)