i've been busy. i've been busy doing things that are none of your nevermind. at this very moment i could sleep until spring and after hibernation i wouldn't be grumpy like a bear. i'd be well rested and content. wouldn't it be nice to just dream in cozy covers without the jarring interruptions of alarm clocks and responsibilities pestering our rest? amen sister girlfriend. amen.

we had a single adult family home evening at randy's today. it was my job to provide the activity, so i went to save on foods sans the "and drugs" and bought three ginger bread house kits and some extra candies. i forgot the monies randy provided for the purchase of said items at home on the dining room table. drat. (elicia says drat all the time) so i dipped into the car insurance monies again. heh heh (nervous laugh). i had sixty dollars to spend and it came to fifty nine sixty three. i was pretty darn proud of myself for that accomplishment.

i went home and lay down on the couch for a very very very mini hibernation. like i was just starting to think about hibernating and it was over all ready. archie lay on my shins and izzy curled up on my femurs. we were happy after our own fashion. it was way too short lived. the phone rang twice. the first i didn't answer (by the ring "i wish you a merry christmas" i knew it was heather) the second i tried to rouse myself for, abruptly depositing languid kittens on the floor, but only reaching the phone in time to hear elicia's message saying she would be late. her message said it was six twenty two. groan. time to get up. my nose was cold. my eyes were achy tired. groan. i rolled myself off of the couch and trudged to the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror. (this mirror examination is becoming a sad regularity) i can live with it, i told myself about my sad saggy appearance. i gave myself an appolagetic smile and shrugged.

i picked up heather and linda and then shauna and we headed over to randy's. it was linda's first time there and she was appropriately impressed. for the lesson we read some of randy's favourite christmas scriptures. that was nice. then we watched the luke nativity story thingie with no talking. you know the one. and then it was ginger bread house time.

linda and i did a house together. she was the icing person and she was well suited to her position. our house was totally the best and we used all our icing. nobody else did. more icing means more candies, more candies means a better looking, handsome house. cyril helped us too. he liked sticking the gummy bears on. mr. kruger's christmas was on in the background.

randy had cheese and crackers in the spare room. the jalepeno jack was really good. me and linda chowed down on it. i had a cranberry raspberry carbonated beverage, but i'm not that glad i did. carbonation just isn't my scene. props to randy for his spread of goods though.

then we watched the tabernacle choir sing the christmas tunes. one of them that we enjoyed was a calypso type with some people in colourful busy vests playing metal drums. and to top the evening off we watched a painfully slow, ultra painful 1978 byu film production, that when it FINALLY got around to the point was about the guilt a guy felt about being mean to a girl in elementary school. cypher in the snow era.

elicia and i took a house to give to joanna who we now visit teach. i picked the one linda and i made. but i refused to put it into a box. the candies would fall off! heather scoffed at this. so i made people hold it but on the way home from heather's there was no one. so linda put a bag on the floor and put it on top and it worked.

and that's it.