Merry Christmas! It is 3.15am on December 22, 2008 and I braved the snow in my Toyota Echo to go to Metrotown to do my shopping for the entire Christmas season! Ok, I exaggerate, however, I will point out that other than most of the stocking stuffers that I am responsible for and 3 or 4 gifts, I was completely ill prepared for Christmas. Except of course, I did manage to get the tree and decorations done early. Priorities right? :)
I got up today, showered, prepared a list, dug out my car, cleaned off my driveway of nearly a foot of snow and headed out into the jungle.
But of course before I even got off my street, I first had to make it out of my driveway, and believe me that took a fair bit of tire spinning! Then once I actually made it out, a garbage truck came down our road and forced me into the snowy sides and that got me stuck for an additional 5 minutes of mind blowing, heart thumping frenzy before finally my tires stuck to some piece of the road and I was safely on my way again! Curse those garbage men!
Anyways, Metrotown was 'f&%ed up' seriously! Winners, had a 100 person lineup (no kidding) and some stores were closing their doors and only allowing a person in when a person left! How messed is that?
I arrived at just after 2pm, and I left the mall with all of my Christmas packages and groceries at 9.45 pm! It was amazing. Oh, and while there I ran into my salsa dancer and his friends! I've been invited with as many girlfriends as I would like to bring to a huge Colombian party on both Christmas eve and New Years eve - and it is a private after hours party so no being sent home at 2am! Salsa all night! yeah!
Anyways, the reality of the road conditions is that they are very good on all main arteries, but get off them and my little echo likes to spin around.
I went over to a girlfriends just after all of this and she made a kickass chicken dish - mmmmm spicy and sweet! It was truly delicious - props out to you Susan! And we watched some movies, drank some wine, and whined some more because there is nothing to do on a Monday in this City! I got home around 2am, dragged all of the groceries out, all of the gifts out, and realized that my fridge was disgusting! So I cleaned it and I got finished putting everything away at 3am. I am finally getting tired, but before I went to bed, I thought I should write in this blog because my good good friend Becca has been hounding me.
So Becca, Merry Christmas! I love you girl.
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