'tis the season.

This is the busiest break from school. It's pretty much the most popular one, too. Like, second in line is Spring Break. Winter Break is cool (or not cool, the decision is yours) because it is so long, and, again, because so much happens. I really can't believe not only that it's here, but that it's almost over. I JUST STARTED going to Rödaberg! Just! Now it's the second term. Holy freaking crap.

So the main events of Winter Break are of course:
Christmas
Whatever traveling you do
aaand
New Years.

That's why I'm here today!

First of all.

Christmas was splendid. I was just as excited about it as I always have been, just asked my parents. My mom even said it was cute that I still look forward to it as much as I do. I was like bouncing around Christmas morning, and my parents were like "well before we open presents we have to..." and named all this stuff... completely kidding, but I was still like NO!

We opened our stockings first, like always. I got like, a ton of tiny mechanical pencils and some other pencils and pens, which is good cause I'm running completely low on pencils (thank you, 9en.)... I also got like, some candy from both America and Sweden (I haven't eaten it all yet, I think that deserves a high-five :P), some Lamar Savages lip crap which only my family could ever see the humor in, and some other stuff. I dunno. Lemme tell you what presents I got.

-From my mother's parents: an orange iPod nano. <3 the love of my life. I'm so elated over it, even still. It's my new bff.
-From my uncle on my mother's side: Viva la Vida :D i am so happyyyy.
-From my father's parents: a, like, little mechanical thing that walks around. he's pretty cool. :D
-From my aunt and uncle on my father's side: 50 iTunes credits, YAY :D omgeee i can't wait to go crazy buying music. it's ever-so-convenient, what with my new iPod to fill up. yay!
-From Emily: A PINK TUTU. Like, BRIGHT PINK. I had to go over to her and hug her. It's the most beautiful thing ever. She also got me some hair thingys, yay ^^
-From Sarah: okay, some of the coolest things ever. Horton Hears a Who!, which I am SO happy to own :D, a Santa apron for whatever reason (it is very cool. if i ever get a webcam and start vlogging, i will wear it in one.), an Over the Hill ribbon which is awesome, like a crapload of candy bracelets :D, a Fresh Friend who is like a little Santa-shaped room freshener guy who makes my room smell like cinnamon, and, llol, the hugest freaking panties EVER. They are size 12. They could fit a cow, I swear to god. Awesome. XD
-From Amy and Kevin: a robot sweater!! :D its so awesomeeee. wheee
-From my parents...
-An issue of Seventeen :D yayyy!! and Teen Vogue, but apparently that's from my grandma, and also a Twilight magazine.
-A stuffed dinosaur who is a stegosaurus and rawrs when you push his tummy. he is AMAZING.
-Some shirts. Two robot shirts, and a shirt thats like, a white blouse with a little vest attached to it.
-BREAKING DAWN <3
-Fuzzy socks :3
-Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! which i am veeery happy about.
-A pink 2009 calendar I can write on.

And other things I cannot remember. But I am very grateful and happy about everything. Oh! I'm going to tell you what I got my family members now.

-My mother: a pretty notepad that has like tree designs on it, because I know she loves notepads and tree designs, lol, and a necklace with some birds on it. Oh, some birds and some tree. How fitting.
-My father: some pesto cheese and some snowball candy. Edible gifts, yay!
-Emily: like, a crapload of stuff. a small blue gel pen, some very tasty-smelling orange scented soap (I swear it smells like freaking candy), a cup with a purple monkey on it, a bag with bananas on it, and those things you put in the fridge and put on your eyes, except the two eye-things are like duck heads. Awesome.

I kept our Christmas tree :3 It's in my room. It's very small, so it's not like I just have some big pine tree in my room, no. It's on my windowsill. So now I have two plants in my room! AP001, and Johnny Louis, which is my Christmas tree's name. His last name is Smithersons.

So after Christmas we went to Prague. We were there for 5 days. It was wicked cold there. In a very extreme way. I had to wear like tights under my jeans every day, and my coat over my sweater over my shirt... and my hat... and my gloves, with my hands in my coat pockets... and a scarf... and I was still freezing. We went to Poland one day, too. Both places were very cheap. Like, we went to this Target-ish store and got like clothes, a pair of boots, some food, some perfume (mine :] it's lovely and was only seven dollars), and like a crapload of notebooks and pencils and stuff... anyway, that was all equivalent to one hundred dollars. That is all. Compared to Sweden... that's insanely, insanely cheap. So awesome.

It was pretty nice there. We ate at a cute little place in Poland and signed this, like, super-insanely-old guestbook... we had to use like really pretty cursive because everyone else in there did, and use up about a page. I was proud of my cursive. It was some nice cursive.

I was so happy to come home, though. Traveling makes time go by slowly.

New years was cool. The fireworks out my window were amaaaazing. Like, so completely breathtakingly awesome. I could see like, the entire horizon of Stockholm, and about a billion fireworks at a time every second. IT WAS SO COOL. My parents went to some party.

The first food I ate in 2009 was vanilla ice cream, and the first song I listened to was Supermassive Black Hole, at Sarah's request.

Oh and, awesomest thing ever. Okay so. About 12 minutes after midnight, I was talking to Sarah and I was like, crap. I just had the best idea ever and now it's too late. You know how people always kiss at midnight? Kay so, Sarah and I always hug our computers at the same time because that's the best available way right now, and we're awesome like that, but I was thinking, we should have totally kissed our computer screens at the same time at midnight. But, no. It was too late. Our next idea was to wait until Sarah's midnight, but that was freaking 8 am for me, so no. Then she was like, well, Finland's midnight is in an hour! So I'm like, AWESOME. We're doing it. And it was like crazy-awesome, llol. Both of our parents were like, dude, what the crap??

So yeah. 2008 is over. Which is just so weird. It hasn't hit me in some crazy way yet, you know? Just like when you have your birthday you don't feel whatever age you are. 2009 just doesn't seem any different from 2008. But it's still weird.

Oh, I have new blogging rules for myself. Every 5th post I make has to be, like, about one specific thing or person. Like, a tribute or something. It's going to be cool, probably. And every 4th post gets to be a story. That is all. Byebye.