• Last minute Christmas shopping/stress/buying more things for myself than for the people on my gift list. 
• Tried Leinenkugel’s Fireside Nut Brown Beer; Blue Moon’s Winter Abbey remains the winter seasonal brews champion for me, but this might take second place. 
• Culinary Adventures: Sweet Potato & Califlower Soup, Saag
• Filipino Christmas Party
   
• Gifts with Mom and Sister = 1 Nautica Nautical Throw Blanket, 1 “Watermelon Dress,” 1 Anchor shirt, 5 pairs of underwear, 2 pairs of silk “long underwear,” a set of 4 anchor placemats for the future apartment
  
• Christmas morning = sleeping in. Breakfast = 1 fried egg, 1 banana with peanut butter & honey, 2 slices cinnamon sugar toast, & chai green tea in a mug from my Starbucks holiday collection. 
   
• Christmas early dinner with Grandma and cousin at Chinese Restaurant. This is my kind of Christmas. 
• Successfully wore “funeral formal” to every Holiday/Christmas gathering I attended. 
• Christmas exchange with A.Dew = Cool Shooters Ice Tray, Glittery Wallet/Clutch, souvenir shot glass, wool scarf. + Wine goblet decorating for New Year’s Eve + Black Swan (Swan Queen, what are you!). 
• Post-Christmas shoe shopping at Payless = 1 pair brown flats, 1 pair nude, closed-toe heels, 1 pair (nautical) navy blue wedges for $29.42. Score. 
• Finally, some snow!
• Watched Plastic Planet with sister: “These chemicals do not kill you. These chemicals harm your quality of life.” Scary. 
• $201.06 for 17 Spring semester books
• Grades in: excellent semester!
• Finished A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Weekend Wishlist:

• Sipping champagne from my glittery, gigantic wine glass on NYE, in my gold dress & my spirit hood with my best friends
• Fully functioning new transmission, pretty please!