Happy Holidays!

Shirt: Joe Fresh
Skirt: H&M
Tights: outside printed pair - Forever 21
inside plain black pair - Primark
cupcake earrings (not visible): Wal-Mart

Merry Christmas everyone!

I haven't posted in a whilee and I certainly remember blogging that I'd do alot of fashion blogs, Christmas blogs and such. I'm super sorry. I've been busy with exams, Christmas prep, and overall, my health hasn't been the best, so I've been doing alot of chilling out in sweats for the past two weeks in front of the couch.

So, I finished my exams on the 13th of December. I was well enough to celebrate our academic success combined with Christmas with my nursing girls that night. I had some wine, but got really ill and had to go home a bit earlier than most. I did have a fun time though.

I went to my doctor on Thursday because I was having some abnormal cells showing up in my kidney and bladder and they weren't sure if it was cancerous. But because I've had so many prayers, I was cancer free! My doctor said I may need to undergo surgury in the future to take out some parts of my urinary tract affected by endometriosis, but for now and until I finish third year, I'm on a continuous flow of meds. My doctor said I should try and avoid alcohol, caffeine and foods high in soy. The first two, are irritants for my bladder and the latter, he says are estrogen-mimickers which basically feeds the endometriosis. Endo occurs basically as a result of excessive estrogen in the body, which I thought was a good thing for a girl, but I guess not.

I learned from all this to take my life very seriously. I used to it for granted that I could just get up and go whenever I pleased to do fun and exciting things with my friends. I just do now what I have energy for at the moment and try not to over-exert myself. I have to face the real possibility that I may be unable to have kids when I want to. I'm fortunate that Matthew is understanding that when we do get married, he wouldn't mind adopting kids if in the event we couldn't have any of our own.

I am certainly blessed with very supportive family and friends who are helping me deal with this potentially serious condition.

I attended an ugly sweater party, Carmie's birthday party, and then had my best ladies up on the 21st for secret santa. We had a potluck, made and decorated shortbread, and watching my favorite Christmas movie, "Love Actually".

My Christmas was probably by far, one of the best ones I've had in years. I love spending Christmas with my grandparents!

We drove out on the 23rd after Matthew left for the airport. My mom had actually turned back after getting on the TCH by CBS since there was so much wind causing the car to wobble. We went to the garage and got the problem fixed and were back on the road. It was basically like a hurricane driving out, but we made it, safe and sound.

My brother and I watched "Arthur's Perfect Christmas" on my laptop, as it is a huge tradition for us every year since we were kids.

Christmas Eve was spend relaxing. I watched "The Wizard of Oz" with Nan, and she at 73 could appreciate my love for old vintage films as it was the era she grew up in :) That evening, we visited my Uncle Cliff's and Aunt Doreen's, and my Aunt Bonnie's and Uncle Gerald's. We also had a sit down family dinner of fish and brewis, a traditional Christmas Eve dinner for my family. It was really lovely. My pop and I played piano most of the night after supper and sang Christmas carols, and the best part was watching "The Gaither's Christmas Special" on TV with Nan and Pop. My brother also watched the original "Grinch Who Stole Christmas" movie before we went to sleep.

So my list of favorite Christmas movies:

1. Love Actually
2. White Christmas
3. The cartoon version of "The Grinch"
3. Elf
4. Rudeolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
5. Santa Clause is Coming to Town
6. Stepmom
7. Prancer

The next morning, Christmas morning, we all got up at 730 and started opening gifts around 8am.

As a tradition, we always open our stockings together first. Some of the things I can remember of the top of my heads getting in my stocking include:
1. hand sanitizer
2. jolly ranger lip gloss
3. a hershey dark chocolate bar
4. gum
5. two fashion magazines (Flare and Lou Lou)
6. 50 dollars in Avalon Mall money
7. pens
8. chanel body spray
9. polka dot knee socks
10. chocolate liquer
11. a blue shower loofa puff
12. michael buble christmas cd

Then, after stockings, we opened all our gifts together.
Some of the gifts I got:
1. bathrobe (I lost my old one to Hurricane Igor when my basement flooded and my old bathrobe happened to be on the floor in front of the washer)
2. a long off-white knit scarf
3. handmade knit mittens from Posie's Row (off-white, brown, gold and orange)
4. a day pass to the spa at the monestary and "inception" dvd from matthew :)
5. a knit sweater with a million shades of purple from my nan
6. robin egg blue sheet set
7. earrings
8. more mall money
9. a computer cooler
10. hot pink and silver skates :) (my mom was evil and put them inside of a fryer pan box, so when I unwrapped it, I thought I was getting frying pans. Not impressed.)
can't remember what else, but it was alot

Anyways, we went to my aunt's for dinner and went to nan's afterwards and watched "Elf" together.

Last night, we had a Boxing Day games and movie night at Steph's. We played "Apples to Apples", "Scattergories", "Dutch Blitz" and watched "Clueless".

Today, I'm going to spend my Christmas gift cards :D

'Tis the season for an excuse to buy new clothes. As if I need an excuse!!

Haha.
Good by, lovelies.