‘Cause I ain’t been nuttin’ but bad

A Christmas Story for people having a bad day

When four of Santa’s elves got sick, the trainee elves did not produce toys as fast as the regular ones, and Santa began to feel the Pre-Christmas pressure.

Then Mrs Claus told Santa her Mother was coming to visit, which stressed Santa even more.

When he went to harness the reindeer, he found that three of them were about to give birth and two others had jumped the fence and were out, Heaven knows where.

Then when he began to load the sleigh, one of the floorboards cracked, the toy bag fell to the ground and all the toys were scattered.

Frustrated, Santa went in the house for a cup of apple cider and a shot of rum.. When he went to the cupboard, he discovered the elves had drank all the cider and hidden the liquor. In his frustration, he accidentally dropped the cider jug, and it broke into hundreds of l ittle glass pieces all over the kitchen floor. He went to get the broom and found the mice had eaten all the straw off the end of the broom.

Just then the doorbell rang, and irritated Santa marched to the door, yanked it open, and there stood a little angel with a great big Christmas tree.

The angel said very cheerfully, ‘Merry Christmas, Santa. Isn’t this a lovely day? I have a beautiful tree for you. Where would you like me to stick it?’

And so began the tradition of the little angel on top of the Christmas tree.

summer

I feel the need to continue writing this blog even though it’s summer and I’m not taking any classes.  My technical reason for not furthering my education this summer is that during the first session of summer classes at IUPUI I was going to be in Florida and would have had to miss a whole week of classes.  Which pretty much equals two or three weeks in ‘real time’ since the classes meet for three hours a day, two days a week.  While I wasn’t sure about my trip to Vienna when it came time to register for classes, it was an idea already and I was hoping to go, which would mean missing another week of classes during the second summer session.  See?  It was practical.  And money saving.  Maybe.

The real reason for not taking classes?  I NEED A BREAK!  I’m so burned out with school right now.  I need to be excited about it again, and I think that taking a few months off where I don’t have to think about it, AT ALL, will help me get back to being excited.  When I’m excited about school, I get very good grades.  My first semester back to school after a 7 year break?  A 3.9 GPA.  All the semesters since?  Not even a 3.5.  Need to do something about that.  And a break, even a short one, is the ticket.

So, since I’m not taking classes this summer, expect to see some non-school-related posts from me.  I might have the occasional financial aid induced rant, or a comment on the classes that I’m taking in the fall.  Or, most likely, a little bitching as the summer comes to an end, but other than that, this blog will mostly consist of all the fun things I plan to do this summer.

Like my upcoming trip to Vienna, for instance.  That’s right.  Vienna.  In Austria.  That’s in Europe.  I finally have a chance to use the passport I got last year!  Even though they probably won’t stamp it, it’s still cool that I get to use it.  I’ve been out of the country before, but never to Europe and I’m very excited about it!  I think I’m going to need a crash course in German.  Luckily my dad’s girlfriend is from Germany and can help me out with that.  I’m going to need to learn important phrases like, ‘Where’s the bathroom?’, ‘Check, please.’, and “May I have another beer?’.  Since I’ll be in Austria and rumor has it there is beer there.  Good beer.

So it’s T minus one month and 5 days till my trip.  I wish it was now!

very cosmopolitan

So, this was supposed to post very early Friday morning (as in, around 3:30, when I got home from seeing the Sex and the City movie), but the iTouch wouldn’t let me type in the body section and I was way too lazy to break out the laptop.

Basically, all I was going to say is that I LOVED the movie!  It was so good.  The characters hadn’t changed at all, and the movie even kept you in suspense for a while about what was actually going to happen.  I think it was a perfect ending to the whole Sex and the City thing.

Now I just have to wonder….is Carrie ever going to be a mommy?