Everyone!

Everyone stopped posting! Understandable -- it's a busy time of the year, and I'm not sure myself when I'll get back in the blogging business. How was your Christmas? Mine was great, I love my family. I wasa very lucky 

child this year.

 

BUSY!

Busy busy busy times coming up. Don't know how much I'll be able to blog, but I took some pics of my Christmas tree. Please take a look!!

Christmas

Happy Time

EVERYONE IS BLOGGING AGAIN AND CHRISTMAS IS COMING AND SO IS SNOW.

I'm happy, can't you tell? Now for some light humor. Craig Ferguson is hilarious.

Cuppin Fuffin

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and while Thanksgiving is a time for wonderful get-togethers, my family doesn't go crazy over Thanksgiving. You see, I guess we're a weird bunch. We celebrate Christmas much larger than Thanksgiving, with three gatherings, not one. Our first gathering is traditionally the Saturday before Christmas, which, this year, is the 21st. We all meet in my Great-grandmother's apartment in Harlem (far north Manhattan.) After that, we meet for the most special gathering, at my grandmother's house here in Warwick on Christmas Eve. My grandmother cooks a feast, and I bake some desserts to bring. Usually I make those pre-made cookies, but I'm feeling something different this year. We gather around 2:00PM, and more people gather throughout the night, until we have somewhere in the realm of 15 or so. We sing, play guitar, and have a nice time. My aunt and I run around with cameras and video cameras, documenting the night. After dinner, (which, as I said before, is a feast fit for a king) we head to a local Catholic chapel, where, my grandfather who's a Catholic preacher, gives mass. This goes until just before midnight. We drive back to my grandmother's house where we all open gifts. My aunt and I, once again, run around with cameras. Everyone gets home by around 2:00AM, by this time it's Christmas morning. This year we're hopefully beginning a new tradition. The day after Christmas, which is a Friday this year, our family is heading to Sayville, Long Island, about two hours out, to gather at my uncle's house. We're going to spend the day there and exchange more Christmas spirit. I will most likely spend the following week there and celebrate New Year's with them as well. It should be much fun. The entire purpose of this post was really to get down to the point that I made some pumpkin muffins, but I didn't want to just come out and say GUESS WHAT I MADE MUFFINS.

I made pumpkin muffins, GUYS! And they're DAMNED GOOD!

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.

Yeah, well today I went Christmas shopping for three people. I'm not done shopping for any of them. Well, I bought gifts for two, one of two of their gifts. I found nothing for the third person. So, yeah. I'd say what I got, but I can't. I'll just post something. Chiara, here's the first part of yours. Yours it so nicely done, I'm so proud of myself. Well, yeah, so thats it for now. I got some new shirts, a gift to myself, and like 50 packages are coming to my house next week. Sucsk. Well, one is for me :-D. Can you say Ay-pahd-tu-chh?

Twelve Days of Christmas: Day Eight

OBLADI, OBLADA, LIFE GOES ON BRAAAA, LALALALA LIFE GOES ON! Okay, still having a Beatles moment, Kerianne.. Yeah. So....yeah. Well anyway, I don't really want to blog, I just want to sing. Alright, well here you are.

On the eighth day of Christmas,

my true love sent to me

Eight maids a-milking,

Seven swans a-swimming,

Six geese a-laying,

Five golden rings,

Four calling birds,

Three French hens,

Two turtle doves,

And a partridge in a pear tree.

8 Maids A-milking refers to the eight beatitudes

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Twelve Days of Christmas: Day Seven

.....annnddd the series continuesss... Hello, hello, thank you for stopping by. Okay, let's face it, absolutely no one is reading this, (thanks for the comments, guys) and I'm just a loser that finds this entertaining. Is that really true? Totally. But guess what? Doesn't matter. It's cool. I like it. That's all that counts.As promised, here's my grandmother's mantle, donned for the Christmas season. I have a Christmas gathering at her house, so you'll definitely see more of it then. Heck, maybe even a video or two. Stay tuned folks. On a very light note, I'm really excited for CHRISTMAS! ONE WEEK. JUST ONE WEEK AHHH! Okay. Well that's cool. I'm just over half way done with my Christmas Special!

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Seven swans a-swimming, Six geese a-laying, Five golden rings, Four calling birds, Three French hens, Two turtle doves, And a partridge in a pear tree.

7 Swans A-swimming refers to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments

FELIZ NAVIDADDDD.

p.s. to any stupid band nerds that read this blog, I hope all went well tonight! A PLUS PLUS. ☺

Twelve Days of Christmas: Day Six

Well, to start it off, I'm about to put a new song, probably the best and most meaningful Christmas song I've ever heard in my life. Well, in a great turn of events, my roller coaster is up, sky high, among the clouds. HAHAHA CHEEEEEZYYYY. Whatever, I'm happy, that's all that matters.Like those ornaments? Yeah, you bet you're jealous.Look at that. It's insanely perfect. I love it. It's my grandma's but mine as far as I'm concerned. Gifts line the tree's trunk, in all sorts of wrapping. Well, not yet. My grandma only wraps with one type of wrapping paper. I love Christmas. Tomorrow I'll post pics of her fireplace. It's amazing. I SMELL CHRISTMAS! On another note, that video is hilarious. It's a Garmin Christmas Ad. You'll be glad you watched it. Oh, look. I made the youtube thing green and red. SO CHRISTMASY.

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Six geese a-laying, Five golden rings, Four calling birds, Three French hens, Two turtle doves, And a partridge in a pear tree.

6 Geese A-laying refers to the six days of creation MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Twelve Days of Christmas: Day Three

So, I go to get a haircut today, (UGH), and I see my old chorus teacher. What does he say for the fifth time? He's very disappointed in me for not furthering my choral career. He said I have a huge amount of potential and that I could easily be in Meisters. I scoffed. He's veryyyyy funny. So, HEY PEOPLE, AS IN JESS, I'M ALL UP FOR THE MORE ACTIVE BLOG NETWORK....but now you stopped. No fair. Oh, yeah, and in case you didn't know...that's my beautiful girlfriend. ♥ Okay, now the rest of the SONG!

On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Three French hens, Two turtle doves, And a partridge in a pear tree.

3 French Hens refers to Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues Merry Christmas!

Twelve Days of Chistmas: On The Second Day of Christmas

AHH, I SEE SNOW! IT'S SNOWING AND WE DON'T HAVE SCHOOL! WOOOH! Yeah, well it's snowing. Quite heavily, too. Well, I think I'll come back later with another picture later, and a new song.

On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Two turtle doves, And a partridge in a pear tree.

Turtle Doves refers to the Old and New Testaments

Twelve Days of Christmas: Winter Wonderland

Alright people. Remember all those times you'd be procrastinating at doing something? You know, like not heeded your mother's call, and saying "I'm coming Ma!" just to get a "Well so's Christmas!"? Well, guess what. They Christmas really WAS coming after all. Here I pledge, every day for the next fourteen to post at least once. Well, anyway, I'm just dropping another line. Remember when it snowed a few weeks ago? I mean the first measurable snow? Well, here were some pictures from my own Winter Wonderland.

*Note to Chiara, that one reminds me of the story A Bridge to Terabithia. Isn't that little 'cove' like that wonderland Peter describes? (Is it Pete? NO!!!! THIS REMINDS ME OF THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE!)

Merry Christmas!