Happy Holidays

Christmas
I didn't blog about Christmas, mainly because there wasn't much to write about. Things in the McDonald house were quiet and calm, with John and me as the only kids around. Christmas Eve the parents and I went to mass at the Motherhouse and then I got dropped off at a co-workers house. I stayed there until 1230 or so and came home. Christmas Day night John and I went to Night at the Museum. That was about it.

New Year's Eve (or not...)
For two months Krystyna and I had been planning a night out on the town. I turned down babysitting, fought to get the night off work, and even bought this new top:
However, yesterday Krystyna informed me that she didn't want to go out, that she wanted to go to a party hosted by one of the staff at work. For reasons I won't get into (or that may seem obvious), I didn't feel it responsible for me, being a manager, to attend. Kat's going in town but I'm not feeling the whole third wheel thing tonight. I'll probably just end up staying home or going to a friend's house to watch a movie. Either way, the night won't be what I'd hoped for.

"O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree"

Tonight after watching the finale of The Amazing Race (which was AWESOME, btw), Mom and I decorated the Christmas Tree. It was a little strange because last year Jods was home with us and I'm adjusting to Mom and I decorating alone, but we enjoyed ourselves. I think we're both satisfied with the final product, and I know one member of the family who is thrilled to have the new edition to the living room...

Daisy couldn't even wait until it was decorated before she buried herself in the legs of the tree stand. Last year she refrained from climbing it, and we're hoping she behaves herself again. She is getting older after all.

To get Polar to sit in front of the tree for a picture, I had to bribe him with a candy cane. Yes, a candy cane. Aunt Marg has him on a hard candy kick, especially those of the pepermint flavor. Even still, I couldn't capture his attention long enough to get him to look at the camera.

Miss Daisy, always looking for a box to crawl into takes advantage of our decorating challenge, jumping into the first available box. Looks like I'm not the only one who enjoys Christmas :).

Tomorrow, it's my day to sell Empire Cards at MicMac Mall all day, something I'm half looking forward to. It will be a long day, open to close, and I'm coming down with a nasty cold. However I'm sure it will be good to get into the holiday spirit even more.

Crawling a Pub...or 5

Friday night found me and numerous of my fellow coworkers from the theatre on a pubcrawl. The day started with my picking up Krystyna and stopping to get an earring for my piercing, however it's too big. Then we picked up Shari and ran some errands. You know, the bank, the grocery store, Wal-Mart (for pens to write on our shirts). On the way to my place we ordered a pizza. We spent the last part of the afternoon getting ready. After being a half hour late, we set out to pick up Mark.

Pogue Fado
We got here and I immediately ordered a cosmo. Not sure about what I wanted to drink, I knew I at least wanted one of those. I ordered a second after my decision to "sing for my supper". First Geoff got up on stage and sang Great Balls of Fire. Then Shari, Krystyna, and Scott sang Somebody to Love. After that, Shari, Krystyna, and I sang Complicated. My pick, of course.

Peddlers
We made our way down to peddlers, Krystyna and I talking in accents the entire way. Halfway there we discovered that K still had on the tie she put on at Pogue's to sing! Oh well! Peddlers was fun, with $1.50 draft and shots who wouldn't enjoy it? I amused people when in the last 5 minutes of the power hour I ordered two and had someone say to me, "Do you have TWO beers?" Yup guys, I did!
At Peddlers I saw someone who I thought was a guy who lived next door to us growing up. I had just seen him earlier in the week when he came into the theatre, and upon mentioning that I realized, nope! It wasn't the same person! But I new him nonetheless.

Lower Deck
This place was busy as usual. Especially for 930 on a Friday night. We got drinks and went upstairs. I was slightly disappointed when Krystyna ordered Potato Skins in a MARTINI glass and they came out on a plate. Not much else happened here.

Mercury
When we got here, we noticed the other pubcrawl that had been at Peddlers was also here. They greatly outnumbered us, but that's okay. I got Mark to try to teach me some more swing dancing, but it was obvious it just wasn't going to work. Apparently a few guys from the other pubcrawl were trying to get all the girls to dance and none of them would. One made the comment to K that "all you on this pubcrawl suck. The only one who's any good is HER, cause she's out there dancing!" And sure enough, the her was me! I was also talking to some guy from the other pubcrawl and he said, "You know what our pubcrawl needs? YOU!" It was halarious. Later, I had this conversation with the bartender:
Bartender: Come on, let's go.
Me: What? Where are we going?
Bartender: Outside.
Me: Outside? Why outside? Are you kicking me OUT?
Bartender: Yup, let's go.
Me: But why, what did I do?
Bartender: You fell.
Me: I fell? Really? Oh, but I have a coatcheck.
Bartender: Where's your tag?
Me: I dunno. Oh! My friend has it, on her necklace.
Bartender: Do you remember the number?
Me: Yup, 20.
The bartender hands me my coat.
Me: Oh look at this! It's my coat! That was the right number!

The Dome
Getting kicked out wasn't too bad. We were only at the Mercury for another 5 minutes anyways. Apparnetly K tugged on my arm and I stumbled. Anyways. Someone came with me and we headed to the Dome. There I ran into Nancy and Savanna! It was fun until K took off with some dude called Arthur and I couldn't find her. Especially when it was nearing close. We did find her in the end. Thank god. I was so angry at her!

The night finally ended after we spent like three hours in McDonalds, took a cab to Zu's house. Zu drove us to Mark's house, and Mark drove K and me to my house. 7am.

What a night.
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