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Jumping on the bandwagon with Robyn and Erika here…

When did I stop believing in Santa?

I don’t think I can pinpoint an age or year… But I must have heard rumors about his alleged non-existence from my older sisters or something… Because what I remember most was trying to trick Santa, the Easter Bunny and the rest of the gang into getting caught. I would leave notes all over the house saying that they better leave the presents/basket/whatever… in my room otherwise I wouldn’t believe in them anymore… I don’t know what made me think threatening them would work… So anyway… My plan was to stay up and since they would be coming into my room I would be able to catch them. Well I think it was an Easter night that I woke up and saw my mom doing something in my closet. It was like 2am so I asked what she was doing. She said she was putting away laundry… at 2am?? You think she could have come up with something better like “I’m checking if he came yet.” or something… but anyway… I just fell back asleep and from then on I was sure none of them were real.

We also had a Santa that came to the party at my Grandma’s every year…. and the fact that Santa always looked like a relative that wasn’t at the party was always a bit suspicious… it was also suspicious when that person always showed up after Santa had left… Then there were the grown ups in the back of the room always trying to guess who Santa was that year… My grandma was always great at keeping it a secret… :smile

But I still enjoy pretending they are real… And my mom still makes sure to include a gift for everyone from Santa…

Cleaning? Did I say cleaning? Well obviously that means surfing the internet and being lazy… right? Well that’s what I did… I got a little of my room picked up and the vacuuming was done before I posted… but the rest of the motivation never came… ohwell… another day… a new chance at some more motivation…. right?

Well… I vacuumed… now I just need to find the energy to clean the kitchen counters… sweep the floor… clean the floor… clean the bathroom counters and pick up my room…. hahahaha…. as if half of that will even get done tonight…. well I can hope! :smile

Sleepy… so very sleepy! It is going to be hard to resist taking a nap when I get home tonight… But I think I can… Hopefully after lunch I will feel a little more alert… :smile My proessor for my first class today brought cookies and milk… They were very good… especially the cute little gingerbread ones. We also held a funeral in that class today… earlier in the year we had a funeral for schwa and today we had a funeral for voiced/unvoiced “th” Those are two of the most confusing linguistic/phonemic principles for kids to understand… :smile Well it’s off to hang out at the Newman Center until it’s time for lunch w/ J.

2 days of classes… 2 finals… 1 project…. come on… almost there… I can do it…

Updates? Well not much to update. I have been just up to the normal junk lately. Though the other night at Taco Bell, Jason won me stuffed tiger out of one of those silly claw machines. He is good at getting tigers out of those machines. I have a collection of at least 10 or so that he got me out of a different machine… :smile

Tonight I thought I had work… but I don’t… So that means I can clean! Tomorrow the landlords are coming into all the apartments to check if the doors work, windows are shut and the AC cover is on…. I think it is actually more of an excuse to check the condition of apartments however…. The landlords also informed me that my car needs to stop leaking ASAP… I told my car and it didn’t seem to care… So I called my parents and I think they are trading cars with me sometime soon.

Well it’s time to head off on my second to last day of classes…. Tomorrow will be my last day since I don’t have class on Friday… :smile Hope everyone has a wonderful hump day!