Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

So ya Christmas was this week. It was pretty crazy. We got up super early Christmas morning and drove to Winnipeg. I think I slept most of the way. Well we had to pick Grandma up first. Then we dropped her off at Timmermans and went over to mom's side of the family. We had brunch there and talked for a bit. I actually got to talk to Joe for more than 2 seconds! But he was more concerned about his girlfriend at the time. Oh well. I don't have anything against Alex except that it prevents Joe from acting normalish. Oh well. It was good though. Then we went across the city to Timmermans for Christmas with them and Grandma. The kids haven't quite figured out that when family comes out you visit with them. So me and Tiff played games with the old people. But that was kinda fun, except that that is what we every time we go to the city: sit there and talk and play games with old people...Oh well. It's alright at times. I can't really complain It was a good Christmas. Not too exciting, but good. Too much food and sitting and not enough sleep and exercise in those two days we were in the city, although I've been abominably lazy all week pretty much...Now New Year's is coming up. Like tomorrow. We planned an all-nighter for the youth group and we're tryinjg to get the old youth to come rather than have a separate party at April's. That hasn't really happened yet....But ya. Our party should be good and it'lll keep those gr 9 boys from going out and getting drunk and who knows what else...So ya. I'm excited for that. Happy New Year everybody and God bless!

luv n hugz
alissa

signs of life

yup i'm still alive, though some days it seems just barely. things have been busy most days yet not so busy other days and with all the time on my hands you'd think I would have time to write on here more often but nooo....
so yes things have been mostly busy. there was a quizmeet in nipawin a couple weeks ago already. that was a good time and helped me to work out goals for this year in that so twas good. hmmm Christmas is only a few weeks away. aaaaaahhhhh. it's crazy. I'm not really worried about all the shopping or anything like that. it's just all those darn English assignments that are due right before Christmas break. then right after break we write the provincial English exam. It's retarded but what can ya do right? I've kinda moved between moods of self-pity to moods of "everything's awesome right now" i don't like having pity parties cuz they just suck like crap and make you feel bad at the same time. so ya right now it's somewhere in between the self-pity mode and "everything's awesome" mode but closer to the latter thank goodness. God's been doing a lot in my life and I've been doing some pretty hard core soul searching and ya it's pretty revealing of what is actually inside of me. you think you're all good and everything and then something happens and God shows you for who you really are inside. not the greatest feeling in the world but there's beauty from pain so I definitely believe some good will come from this. so ya. Life goes on. Most of the time it's good. yup I think I am now done. So till the next time I randomly decide to come on here...adios!

luv n hugz
alissa