Tumeric cookies with a side of liquid Christmas trees

Vince Guaraldi: Check

Christmas movies: Check

The sickeningly-sweet aftertaste of Christmas cookie that continues to linger in my palate: Check

-time check- 1:34 AM

I hereby declare Christmas : COMPLETE

And you know what? For a Christmas spent away from home it was pretty successful.

- I mean, spending both  Christmas Eve and day with my last good friends here, cooking homemade dinners and pizza, baking cookies, coloring snowflakes, and watching a Charlie Brown Christmas while sipping on mulled wine that we added just a tad too much gin to? I don't know about you but it sounds like a splendid time to me. -

                                                               (Incidentally it was a splendid time)

It seems to me that once people hit their twenties, the greatest Christmas gift is the chance to just be a kid again-- whether from the childhood nostalgia that occurs, the jovial spirit which inevitably pervades your soul, or even just the ability to spend a whole day in pajamas, watching movies and playing games free from criticism or disapproval --  this is more satisfying  than any gift bought in a store.

SO ANYWAYS

While  this weekend  has been great I can already feel the raindrops of reality melting my winter wonder land-- this reality being the fact that the majority of my friends are gone, and the last few left will be gone by this time next week (oh and beeteedubs, they aren't coming  back)

In plain and understated terms, this SUCKS....MAJOR.

               But eh, life goes on. 

      AND,  while I am saying goodbye to my new friends, in a few weeks I will be saying hey to some old friends, which I am very excited for.

Unfortunately, however, I have two weeks of solitude to push through (...I mean...enjoy?) first.

But how will I survive? I mean, don't get me wrong, I do not require human contact all day every day....But two weeks? No friends? What ever shall I do?

THIS

MARISKA'S WINTER BREAK  TO-DO LIST: BUDAPEST EDITION  2011

1. Watch SO MUCH T.V.- movies, shows, cartoons....ALL OF IT.

2. Learn to cut my own hair

3. Curl my hair with bobby pins

4. Hang out in the children's section at Calvin Ter library and attempt to read books...attempt being the key word.

5. Learn a new craft- Card making? Embroidery? Whittling?

6. Perfect old crafts- AKA make more friendship bracelets.....for my self....sigh...

7. Learn the Cyrillic alphabet

8. Make a stop motion movie using only the objects in my room/ Vlog? Maybe?

9. Thoroughly learn about the Palestinian war

10. Buy  jeggings BOOTS (but really this time)

11. Construct blanket fort

12. Visit one new district of Budapest every day

13. BAKE

14. Learn one new thing off of wikihow everyday(staring with:  How to Avoid Copyright Infringement)

15. Reintroduce Sparticus work-out to my life (and my thighs)

16. CONSTRUCT LIFE PLAN (ideally illustrated with a nice flow chart)

Alright that seems about it..

OH ALSO

I really do ( for reals this time ( I  mean really  (reelee) ) )   plan to start blogging every weekend

So ...heads up? Sorry if it gets annoying? Your welcome?

okay, good night

BOLDOG KARÁCSONYT