as everyone knows, i love love love making lists. and here is a brand-spanking-new one that i am dying to execute. despite the fact that christmas vacation is still eons away, i am terribly excited about finally getting there. i have just proved to myself that christmas is my most favoritest holiday ever. BREAKTHROUGH! i can almost never commit to favorites.
so here goes:
10. christmas shopping and gift wrapping
i love shopping! all the more for the people i love. and especially because i missed all the crazy christmas malling last year because i left for new york a month early. and i looove wrapping gifts. i can spend an entire day just wrapping. kaka-inggit yung mga gift wrappers sa rustans. all that ribbon! lovely.
9. decorating the house for christmas
i used to be like a month advanced, but now that i am in law school, our house is bare bare bare. thanks to ate marivic though (my protege) our christmas tree is its multi-colored presentable self. i don't see the christmas in the color-coordinated purple and pink, gold and silver, blue and green themed trees with poinsettias etc. what could be better than a green tree exploding with round multi-colored balls, technicolored stars, and shiney happy tinsel? NOTHING! our tree is the embodiment of christmas spirit and the craziness of the girl who first designed it. ah. our tree. an explosion of color and light. all 13 sets of 100 yellow lights on it. when i get my christmas wish (a fab digicam), i shall post pictures of it.
8. dressing up for the holidays
everyone knows i love dressing up. and what better excuse than the holidays? all the more reason to wear the fabulous frocks i have kept in hiding since i began gathering dust in law school. ooh! stilettos! coats! large earrings! makeup! I CAN'T WAIT!
7. playing christmas songs
i think i began last october. i am officially addicted to christmas songs. well, the ones sang by the ratpack and conniff singers at least. but believe it or not, i have one of unconventional christmas songs that has tracks by alicia keys, destiny's child, nsync, and GASP! britney spears, etc. all this holiday cheer is beginning to get to my ears. and anyway, she was asking santa for a boy. i can feel the similarity. i think, since october, i have managed to make 3 christmas cds. and on the way to finishing a 4th one.
6. seeing the christmas displays
i think this is the effect of many many christmases spent watching the COD mannequins roll around on the mall rooftop. but there's nothing that says christmas is here more than driving around ayala avenue and seeing all the buildings all decked out. another good drive is through AYALA alabang (good carolling site too) and corinthian gardens. but AYALA ave. rocks. also, people watching on a bench somewhere in greenbelt seems good too. watching people with their shopping bags while you sit sipping coffee. fun!
5. grocery shopping for christmas goodies
i so enjoy picking out recipes and then buying them in the grocery. nothing makes you feel more domestic than going from aisle to aisle and back and forth trying to decide which brand will be more tasty, more christmassy. i love christmas food! hot chocolate and marshmallows! fondue! wow. all that chocolate. like a warm marshmallowey hug. i even enjoy the long lines. reading while waiting to get to the counter is so fun. or, catching up with a girlfriend or a cousin while waiting to pay. all that gossip and that exercise of lung power. hehehe. great for the legs too :)
4. cooking christmas dishes
of course, grocery shopping ticked off on my list, i love pretending i am julia child and coming up with some fabulous dishes in the manner of a cooking great. no blue soup here. (in memory of bridget jones). i think the fanciest christmas dish i have whipped up is pasta salad with crab, turnip, etc. with beef roullade stuffed with cream cheease and teriyaki sauce. it turned out quite nicely thank you very much.
3. eating christmas dishes!
i think this could possibly be the thing i am most excited about. i LOVE food! especially christmas food! i almost cried the first time i saw the purefoods christmas ham commercial early last november. and my GOD! bibingka and puto bumbong! its the real reason i get up for simbang gabi i think. (that, and the cute boy in my brother's choir. bygones)
2. opening christmas presents!
i know im officially old at 22. hell, i was old at 21. but it makes opening gifts all the more fun i think since the only gifts you get are from the ones who really mean a lot to you, and who REALLY know what you would like to get. no more generic barbie dolls here. exciting! i love picking out gifts for the people i love too!
1. finally getting to spend time with the people i love
...and haven't seen in a long, long, long time. one bright snowflake in the horizon is my good friend zarabeth's arrival on december 16. she's a good friend from canada who only gets to come home every christmas time. this season has special meaning for both of us since the last time we were together we were separated by a wall in the dengue ward of the FEU hospital, thanks to me, and to our healthy curiosity for everything south of the border. the AS 101 swamp mosquitoes really really got us good. and so, it was that christmas when we missed everything we loved doing during the holidays.
there are so many more things i love about christmas, but will reserve it for a different list i suppose. consider this my first official christmas post! YEHEY! cool!
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