It's finally Christmas 2010! Just spent the day with family, lazying around. Opened some presents, and slept a little bit. I always enjoy this time a year because each year, we go on living our lives day by day, giving little thought about those who mean the most. But during this holiday season, it's time to think about others and think not so much about myself. So this is thanks to the people in my life. Thanks for listening to me complain. Thanks for giving me good advice. And, thanks for being there when I need you. So I do wish all your Christmas wishes come true and that you have a wonderful, and exciting new year because you all deserve it.
- Anita <3
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Christmas....
Long time no post. What else is new?
The holiday season is upon us and the 25th is coming nearer and nearer. It's the season of giving, and time to spend with family and friends. Every year, I imagine myself emersed in holiday festivities... baking some delicious goodies, having a grown-up dinner party, watching a Christmas holiday movie marathon, the list goes on. And each year as the holiday season comes and go, I always realize I don't have enough time to do all of it. No matter how much planning is done or how much I want it to happen. But hey, there's next year.
With the holidays, comes the new year. Another chance to make a new start. A chance to learn from the past. To make a concious effort to make this year better. New year's resolutions are always meant to be broken, but I'm going to make an effort to follow through.
Some New Year's resolutions...
The holiday season is upon us and the 25th is coming nearer and nearer. It's the season of giving, and time to spend with family and friends. Every year, I imagine myself emersed in holiday festivities... baking some delicious goodies, having a grown-up dinner party, watching a Christmas holiday movie marathon, the list goes on. And each year as the holiday season comes and go, I always realize I don't have enough time to do all of it. No matter how much planning is done or how much I want it to happen. But hey, there's next year.
With the holidays, comes the new year. Another chance to make a new start. A chance to learn from the past. To make a concious effort to make this year better. New year's resolutions are always meant to be broken, but I'm going to make an effort to follow through.
Some New Year's resolutions...
- To live a healthier lifestyle
1. Go to the gym at least 3 times a week (cardio and weights)
2. Eat more veggies!! - To save more moolah
3. Save 70% of my paycheck --> write down my spending! - To think positive
These should actually be life guidelines, but better now then never. Alright, first checkpoint... Feb 1, 2010.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Winter Passing
It's winter again.
A white-washed and frozen...sky.
I came to the door,
Eyes maladjusted...from the light,
But your voice rang clear.
You said, "For all I thought I'd ever need,
It's hard to face the holidays without."
Well I've left my last message on your machine.
It's hard to face the holidays
When you're looking for the words to say.
When you're looking for the words to say.
So you've found a friend,
To spend all your cold nights with him,
But if I was there
Then I'd wonder why,
You still wear my jacket
Closed with traces of my scent.
And I said, "For all I thought I'd ever need,
It's hard to face the holidays without."
Well I've left my last message in your machine.
It's hard to face the holidays,
When you're looking for the words to say.
So stay with me here.
Nose to nose,
Cold enough to see as our breath
Slowly escapes and exchanges...
From my lungs to yours,
From your mouth to mine.
For all I thought I'd ever need,
It's hard to face the holidays without.
Well I've left my last message on your machine.
It's hard to face the holidays
When you're looking for the words to say
(stay with me here
Nose to nose,
Cold enough to see as our breath)
When you're looking for the words to say.
When you're looking for the words to say.
(stay with me here
Nose to nose,
Cold enough to see as our breath)
When you're looking for the words to say.
When you're looking for the words to say.
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It's Christmas Eve. For the past few weeks I have never been in much of a holiday mood. But what got me through exams was thinking about the holidays. Once that had passed, I was stressed out about work, finding out grades, other extracurricular things that the holiday spirit within me broke. I couldn't have cared less and by the time December 23rd came along, "Oh, Christmas is in two days...". But today changed everything.
Although it was indeed Christmas eve, I was able to spend it with my family, mainly my mom and sister. Nothing was really planned. I woke up from what was pretty much the worst night in a really long time, in which I had barely any sleep, could barely eat, and had to shovel my driveway. It took me an incredibly long time considering the heavy snowfall and the rain that occurred after, making the snow even more difficult to shove aside. Anyways, after about an hour and 15 minutes, I was all done. Showered. Then, my mom, sister, and I ended up doing a bit of last minute Christmas shopping at Square One. It was an awful long time since the last time we actually spent some time together. And I just thought it was quite nice. I needed it. In either case, we ended up pretty much creating an itinerary for the rest of the day. We ended up buying a gingerbread train set which was pretty awesome compared to the gingerbread houses out there. We decided that we wanted to make holiday cookies and we're in search of a package of sugar cookie mix. However, everywhere we went, they were all out or didn't have any of the kind we wanted. After our wasted search we headed home to start with the rest of the night. When we got home, my sister remembered that we had a package of cookie mix somewhere.. but didn't exactly know where. After digging through some mysterious boxes, we found it. Cookies were officially on the to-do list of the night. Anyways, after that my mom had already prepared a bit of our holiday dinner beforehand, and had to continue to make the rest when we got home. Mash potatoes, gravy, roast beef, and mixed veggies. Mmmm. While my mom was doing that, my sister and I decided to go ahead with the construction and designing of our train. We were a delayed a little bit because we had to mix three colours of icing. Once that was done, we were ok to go and decorate. It was a little harder than I would have expected because the icing was a little runny. Oh well. None the less, all the pieces were decorated within probably an hour or so. It was pretty fun. Some parts were decorated pretty decently, while others should have been cast aside. While waiting for the pieces to dry, we had dinner, as a family, but minus my brother because he had to work. We hadn't had a sit down dinner in probably a year. It was actually pretty nice. People were making fun of each other. Me and my sister ganging up and poking fun at my dad. Me and my dad ganging up and insulting my sister. It was awesome. How lame do I seriously sound? Anyways, dinner was over and done with, so time to check on the trains. Everything seemed to have hardened, so we decided to try to assemble it together. After probably a good 20 mins trying to get the first cart together, we gave up. Nothing was sticking. There wasn't any sort of "tray". I am convinced that the one on the box is stuck together with actual glue. Anyways, we gave up and decided to put all the pieces on a nice cookie plate. After that fiasco, time to bake cookies! Going back, on our shopping trip, we dropped by Walmart in search of cookie cutters. We went to the baking isle and all they had were empty racks, in which the cookie cutters would be, and one lone teddy shaped cookie cutter. I dubbed him the holiday bear and had to buy him. We later found Christmas cookie cutters in a package on a completely non-related isle. Anyways, time to bake cookies. The mix was way too soft so we added more flour than the package suggested. We rolled out the dough, cookie cutted it, and baked. I probably had at least 10 holiday bears. But then something was weird with our oven and kept burning the cookies. None the less, it was fun. And bonus of the day, Chronicles of Narnia was on TV while we were baking.
In the end, no holiday cookies and no cool gingerbread train, but memories to last. I guess I've learned that you don't really have to try hard to have that perfect Christmas. Somehow, it just happens, which makes it all the more special. Throughout the year, families are always busy. I hardly ever see mine all at the same time. Work, school, and life just happens to always keep us apart. But being together, this day, just this once can make up for one entire year (even though my brother wasn't present xD). I probably couldn't ask for it to go any better.
So, I just want to wish you all a very happy holiday, and best wishes in the New Year.
A white-washed and frozen...sky.
I came to the door,
Eyes maladjusted...from the light,
But your voice rang clear.
You said, "For all I thought I'd ever need,
It's hard to face the holidays without."
Well I've left my last message on your machine.
It's hard to face the holidays
When you're looking for the words to say.
When you're looking for the words to say.
So you've found a friend,
To spend all your cold nights with him,
But if I was there
Then I'd wonder why,
You still wear my jacket
Closed with traces of my scent.
And I said, "For all I thought I'd ever need,
It's hard to face the holidays without."
Well I've left my last message in your machine.
It's hard to face the holidays,
When you're looking for the words to say.
So stay with me here.
Nose to nose,
Cold enough to see as our breath
Slowly escapes and exchanges...
From my lungs to yours,
From your mouth to mine.
For all I thought I'd ever need,
It's hard to face the holidays without.
Well I've left my last message on your machine.
It's hard to face the holidays
When you're looking for the words to say
(stay with me here
Nose to nose,
Cold enough to see as our breath)
When you're looking for the words to say.
When you're looking for the words to say.
(stay with me here
Nose to nose,
Cold enough to see as our breath)
When you're looking for the words to say.
When you're looking for the words to say.
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It's Christmas Eve. For the past few weeks I have never been in much of a holiday mood. But what got me through exams was thinking about the holidays. Once that had passed, I was stressed out about work, finding out grades, other extracurricular things that the holiday spirit within me broke. I couldn't have cared less and by the time December 23rd came along, "Oh, Christmas is in two days...". But today changed everything.
Although it was indeed Christmas eve, I was able to spend it with my family, mainly my mom and sister. Nothing was really planned. I woke up from what was pretty much the worst night in a really long time, in which I had barely any sleep, could barely eat, and had to shovel my driveway. It took me an incredibly long time considering the heavy snowfall and the rain that occurred after, making the snow even more difficult to shove aside. Anyways, after about an hour and 15 minutes, I was all done. Showered. Then, my mom, sister, and I ended up doing a bit of last minute Christmas shopping at Square One. It was an awful long time since the last time we actually spent some time together. And I just thought it was quite nice. I needed it. In either case, we ended up pretty much creating an itinerary for the rest of the day. We ended up buying a gingerbread train set which was pretty awesome compared to the gingerbread houses out there. We decided that we wanted to make holiday cookies and we're in search of a package of sugar cookie mix. However, everywhere we went, they were all out or didn't have any of the kind we wanted. After our wasted search we headed home to start with the rest of the night. When we got home, my sister remembered that we had a package of cookie mix somewhere.. but didn't exactly know where. After digging through some mysterious boxes, we found it. Cookies were officially on the to-do list of the night. Anyways, after that my mom had already prepared a bit of our holiday dinner beforehand, and had to continue to make the rest when we got home. Mash potatoes, gravy, roast beef, and mixed veggies. Mmmm. While my mom was doing that, my sister and I decided to go ahead with the construction and designing of our train. We were a delayed a little bit because we had to mix three colours of icing. Once that was done, we were ok to go and decorate. It was a little harder than I would have expected because the icing was a little runny. Oh well. None the less, all the pieces were decorated within probably an hour or so. It was pretty fun. Some parts were decorated pretty decently, while others should have been cast aside. While waiting for the pieces to dry, we had dinner, as a family, but minus my brother because he had to work. We hadn't had a sit down dinner in probably a year. It was actually pretty nice. People were making fun of each other. Me and my sister ganging up and poking fun at my dad. Me and my dad ganging up and insulting my sister. It was awesome. How lame do I seriously sound? Anyways, dinner was over and done with, so time to check on the trains. Everything seemed to have hardened, so we decided to try to assemble it together. After probably a good 20 mins trying to get the first cart together, we gave up. Nothing was sticking. There wasn't any sort of "tray". I am convinced that the one on the box is stuck together with actual glue. Anyways, we gave up and decided to put all the pieces on a nice cookie plate. After that fiasco, time to bake cookies! Going back, on our shopping trip, we dropped by Walmart in search of cookie cutters. We went to the baking isle and all they had were empty racks, in which the cookie cutters would be, and one lone teddy shaped cookie cutter. I dubbed him the holiday bear and had to buy him. We later found Christmas cookie cutters in a package on a completely non-related isle. Anyways, time to bake cookies. The mix was way too soft so we added more flour than the package suggested. We rolled out the dough, cookie cutted it, and baked. I probably had at least 10 holiday bears. But then something was weird with our oven and kept burning the cookies. None the less, it was fun. And bonus of the day, Chronicles of Narnia was on TV while we were baking.
In the end, no holiday cookies and no cool gingerbread train, but memories to last. I guess I've learned that you don't really have to try hard to have that perfect Christmas. Somehow, it just happens, which makes it all the more special. Throughout the year, families are always busy. I hardly ever see mine all at the same time. Work, school, and life just happens to always keep us apart. But being together, this day, just this once can make up for one entire year (even though my brother wasn't present xD). I probably couldn't ask for it to go any better.
So, I just want to wish you all a very happy holiday, and best wishes in the New Year.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Believe
Children sleeping, snow is softly falling
Dreams are calling like bells in the distance
We were dreamers not so long ago
But one by one we all had to grow up
When it seems the magic's slipped away
We find it all again on Christmas day
Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
Trains move quickly to their journey's end
Destinations are where we begin again
Ships go sailing far across the sea
Trusting starlight to get where they need to be
When it seems that we have lost our way
We find ourselves again on Christmas day
Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
Just believe
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And so let the Christmas celebrating begin...
I finished 3/4 exams and time to relax just a bit. For the past 4 days straight, I have been studying for my exams... for Wednesday, Friday, and today. So sad my life has become. Christmas is coming slowly but surely. I'm watching The Family Stone right now, and I'm so excited since my next exam is four days from now. Then time to read and have some time to sleep! I love sleep. I loveeee sleep. Enough about that.
So today I decide to be cute and all and wear tights with a dress and no socks in my shoes. Who knew it would be unbelievably fucking cold. But no worries, my feet are still intact. As I got off the bus on the way home, it started snowing. Not the chunky, flaky kind. It was the small, barely-a-snowflake kind, fluttering slowly with the wind. Just the early signs of what winter has to offer. It was quite relaxing, despite the coldness against my legs. Quite beautiful really. Just solids that have been to the skies and back, disappearing once the wind has taken it where it had to go. So that's my story about snow. I usually hate snow. But not today.
Update: A shitload of snow just fell.
Dreams are calling like bells in the distance
We were dreamers not so long ago
But one by one we all had to grow up
When it seems the magic's slipped away
We find it all again on Christmas day
Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
Trains move quickly to their journey's end
Destinations are where we begin again
Ships go sailing far across the sea
Trusting starlight to get where they need to be
When it seems that we have lost our way
We find ourselves again on Christmas day
Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
Just believe
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And so let the Christmas celebrating begin...
I finished 3/4 exams and time to relax just a bit. For the past 4 days straight, I have been studying for my exams... for Wednesday, Friday, and today. So sad my life has become. Christmas is coming slowly but surely. I'm watching The Family Stone right now, and I'm so excited since my next exam is four days from now. Then time to read and have some time to sleep! I love sleep. I loveeee sleep. Enough about that.
So today I decide to be cute and all and wear tights with a dress and no socks in my shoes. Who knew it would be unbelievably fucking cold. But no worries, my feet are still intact. As I got off the bus on the way home, it started snowing. Not the chunky, flaky kind. It was the small, barely-a-snowflake kind, fluttering slowly with the wind. Just the early signs of what winter has to offer. It was quite relaxing, despite the coldness against my legs. Quite beautiful really. Just solids that have been to the skies and back, disappearing once the wind has taken it where it had to go. So that's my story about snow. I usually hate snow. But not today.
Update: A shitload of snow just fell.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
All Again For You
I couldn't sleep last night
I walked alone
On the beach
Where we always used to go
When we couldn't hook up at home
I thought of you
And the time we jumped the fence
Pool-side, stripped down
We dove right in
And the cops chased us again
When you were mine
You know
We had it all in front of us
You were the one
I was in love
But you always hurt
the one you lost
I couldn't get enough
You were everything
That's bad for me
Make no apologies
I'm crushed...
Black and blue
But you know
I'd do it all again for you
Today, dressed up
In designer drugs
Dedicated to the one
I'll always love
The one who really messed me up
I let you take the wheel
And the driver's seat
Strapped in
So you get the best of me
Now what's left are the memories
When you were mine
You know
We had it all in front of us
You were the one
I was in love
But you always hurt
The one you lost
I couldn't get enough
You were everything
That's bad for me
Make no apologies
I'm crushed...
Black and blue
But you know
I'd do it all again for you
I am standing in the ocean rain
Rough and ready
For your deadly game
I've got nowhere else to go
We had it all in front of us
You were the one
I was in love
But you always hurt
The one you lost
I couldn't get enough
You were everything
That's bad for me
Make no apologies
I'm crushed...
Black and blue
But you know
I'd do it all again for you
(You know I'd do it all again)
(I swear I'd do it all again)
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Things are shaping up to be pretty odd.
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24 days until hate. 18 days until fun. 15 days until love.
I can't wait for the Christmas season. This Christmas will be different. It will be full of love, and not jealously. Only smiles and no tears. Embrace the ones you have, and love until there's no tomorrow. Full of sweet scents of holiday and a sight that comes only once a year, this Christmas will be different.
Top 5 Christmas Movies:
1. Love Actually
2. The Polar Express
3. The Family Stone
4. Home Alone: Lost in New York
5. Bridget Jone's Diary
Top 5 Christmas Songs:
1. All I Want For Christmas - Mariah Carey
2. My Only Wish - Britney Spears
3. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays - Nsync
4. The First Noel - Josh Groban & Faith Hill
5. Angels We Have Heard On High - Josh Groban & Brian McKnight.
I walked alone
On the beach
Where we always used to go
When we couldn't hook up at home
I thought of you
And the time we jumped the fence
Pool-side, stripped down
We dove right in
And the cops chased us again
When you were mine
You know
We had it all in front of us
You were the one
I was in love
But you always hurt
the one you lost
I couldn't get enough
You were everything
That's bad for me
Make no apologies
I'm crushed...
Black and blue
But you know
I'd do it all again for you
Today, dressed up
In designer drugs
Dedicated to the one
I'll always love
The one who really messed me up
I let you take the wheel
And the driver's seat
Strapped in
So you get the best of me
Now what's left are the memories
When you were mine
You know
We had it all in front of us
You were the one
I was in love
But you always hurt
The one you lost
I couldn't get enough
You were everything
That's bad for me
Make no apologies
I'm crushed...
Black and blue
But you know
I'd do it all again for you
I am standing in the ocean rain
Rough and ready
For your deadly game
I've got nowhere else to go
We had it all in front of us
You were the one
I was in love
But you always hurt
The one you lost
I couldn't get enough
You were everything
That's bad for me
Make no apologies
I'm crushed...
Black and blue
But you know
I'd do it all again for you
(You know I'd do it all again)
(I swear I'd do it all again)
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Things are shaping up to be pretty odd.
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24 days until hate. 18 days until fun. 15 days until love.
I can't wait for the Christmas season. This Christmas will be different. It will be full of love, and not jealously. Only smiles and no tears. Embrace the ones you have, and love until there's no tomorrow. Full of sweet scents of holiday and a sight that comes only once a year, this Christmas will be different.
Top 5 Christmas Movies:
1. Love Actually
2. The Polar Express
3. The Family Stone
4. Home Alone: Lost in New York
5. Bridget Jone's Diary
Top 5 Christmas Songs:
1. All I Want For Christmas - Mariah Carey
2. My Only Wish - Britney Spears
3. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays - Nsync
4. The First Noel - Josh Groban & Faith Hill
5. Angels We Have Heard On High - Josh Groban & Brian McKnight.
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