happy shit

ok so 2 posts down from here is the sad Christmas blog entry... followed by one of my weird poetry pieces, and now is the happy entry... cus i need to to that kinda entry once in a while....
Allan and Emily
are amazing friends....
when i told emily my plans for Christmas she asked "how do allan and i and the kids fit into your holiday plans" and invited me over Christmas eve and Christmas morning. when she found out on dec 19th about my father and how upset i was, she asked if i wanted to stay a few days .... which turned into the week... and never said boo about it.
her and the kids went out of their way to make me feel at "home". cleaned up the toy room (best i've seen it since move in a yr ago!) and that was so they had room to put a mattress on the floor so i could have a place to sleep.
Christmas eve i went to church for service alone. not going to talk about that, cus it aint happy and i already blogged it out 2 posts ago.
when ic am back from church, there was Jamaican priced rum and egg nog available. i made my EXTRAORDINARY(LY FATTENING BUT DELICIOUS) CHEESE DIP.... cheese and bacon spice, lemon dilly spice, 3 oinuion spice, cheddar chesse, mozza cheese, parmason cheese, with a cream cheese and mayo base. AND per Emily's request, i found an artichoke dip recipe. artichokes hearts, blended, paramazon cheese, sour cream and mayo base, and made another batch with sum garlic and herbs spice for flavouring.
i have to say, for my first time making any of those dips, they turned out very nicely!
we wrapped our gifts while watching the 1950's version of the christmas carol. all the while emily was tee heeing (too much spiced egg nog? lol. or christmas delights, not sure LOL)
the 1950's version is the best version to watch..... i love it almost as much as Muppet christmas carol.
after wrapping, i went downstairs to sleep....by a warm fire stove!
reminded me so much of my teenage Christmases with my step dad's family back home. Grandmaman's place was heated by a wood fire stove... i loved that smell. thanks to allan's dad for supplying the wood. man, it was so wonderful to fall asleep listening to the fire cracking.
christmas mornign i woke up to allan's alarm goign off... he was the first one awake. i waitewd to hear the kids get up....
nothing.
LOL, forst time i've ever been ina house of kids that didnt get up at the crack of dawn on christmas morning! LOL
8am grand parents show up, i get ressed and kids hop outta bed.
we unwrap stockings ...
AND I HAVE ONE TOO! emily surprised me on dec 23rd by tellign me i also had a stocking :-)
so i made sure on christmas eve to put in my contidbution to the stockings. the kids each got snowballs candy ( kinda like whoppers, but witha hard white candy coating). and as for each us adults... i had travel size alcoholic beverages and liqueur chocolates (santa is an alcoholic?)
allan got me a terry pratchet book (small gods) and emily made sure to stuff it with lindt chocolate (one of my favourites!!)
allan cooked breakfast while we were into our stockings :-)
he made bacon, eggs annnnnd MAMOSAS! ( orange juice, with champagne) YUMMY!!! allan's mom said the bacon was onyl half cooked, little does she know...it was fully cooked, she just likes hers too crispy :-) LOL
after breakfast we unwrapped gifts.
i got Alan a copy of the princess bride novel, Coraline graphic novel, and Coraline movie and a copy of the childrens book "where the wild things are" to read to his girls.
i got Emily the new star trek movie, a few pretty christmas tree ornaments, and a digital photo ornament (about half full of christmas photos i loaded onto it for her)
i got their son a copy of the remade novel version of "where the wild things are"
i got the girls a Pokemon movie, Pokemon cards, and a copy of santa buddies movie.
i got allans dad a little bottle of whiskey and a gift card for a coffee shop he likes.
i got allans mom a stained glass angel ornament. she collects angels.
allan got me the best gift ever.... SHE-RA!! i have been looking for she-ra boxed set for yrs now! he found me season 1 vol1 and season 2 vol 2.... thats all 65 episodes from season 1!!! thats 12 dvds altogether! TEE HEE HEE HEE!!! i think i have my she-ra fix now LOL
emily got me a awesome gift too. THE JIM HENSON FANTASY COLLECTION! has mirrormask, dark crystal, and labyrinth. i've been looking for that set now for 2 yrs, but whenever i found it, i never had the money to get it!
i made off like a bandit
after allthe gifts were unwrapped we went to allan's parents place for more gifts!
allan's mom got me a beaiful necklace and earing set, a cute santa ornament, and a soft throw blanket.
i loved watchignt he kids open all their gifts. allan and emily's son was so funny! he did lil happy dances to his gifts!
after that, we all went off to allan's aunts place for turkey dinner (at 1pm LOL!) OMG that was an amazing diner. the white meat was so moist! there was potato stuffing AND bread stuffing!!! AND THE DESSERTS... cheese cakes, chocolate pie, coconut cream pie, bannan cream pie, lemon pie..... whoah! soooo delicious!!
allan's aunt was so very sweet to let me cone by for dinner! after dinner it was back to allan and emily's place for movie and a nap....EVERYBODY napped LOL.
then at 6pm dad pciked me up and we went to my place. ust dad and me. he left at 730.
at 930 allana nd emily picked me up at 930 and we all went to see SHERLOCK HOLMES !!! that was an awesum movie!! allan and emily disagreed, thought it was ok... i loved it! only thing i didnt like was i wished they would have had more of professor moriarty .
after the nmovie i got dropped off at home...it was 1230am, dec 26th.... christmas was over.
another year, come and gone.....
this year, was made special, thanks to emily, allan, and allan's family.
my own family may not accept me.... but at least i have friends who love me and are there for me, when i need them the most....
here's to hopping that next yea ri am either vacations sumplace cool with dad....or have a boyfriend LOL.
Merry Christmas everybody