The Lodge

Sooo my weekend picked up after Friday night. Good thing. I was in a pretty depressive state that night.
Yesterday, I mailed my Christmas cards and did most of my holiday shopping. I went to the Knollwood Mall, Punch Pizza (got a $25 dollar gift card for Jay & Em, which came with a FREE pizza... so I ate there), Uptown - Urban, Borders, Ragstock, and then Lauren called so I met her at MOA, which was WAAAY too crowded.
I was pretty successful over all... I'm almost done. Was a little disappointed since I really needed to get to Spencers to get my Secret Santa a gift - but since Lauren IS my Secret Santa, that didn't work out so well.
I'm very proud that I can FINALLY afford to buy people nice things for Christmas - not that expensive gifts are better than thoughtful, cheaper gifts... but seriously, last year, I gave Mom, Dad, and Katie "IOU's" for dinner/movies/shopping trips because I was too poor to buy anything. By the way, I still owe them the dinner/movies/shopping trips. Ugh.

After that, I went to Kristen's for her dinner party. I got there early to help chop up carrots and drink 2 classes of wine. :P It was very nice to see her - I was beginning to think she actually moved to Quebec - instead of just visiting all the time for work.
The party was nice, the food was great, and it was good to talk to everyone there - many of them I hadn't seen for quite a while.

THEN, Heather dragged me down to the "Sigma" Lodge party. I pretended to be a sorority girl to get in the door free... then I got $2 drinks until 10pm. Pretty cool special, but the $2 drinks were about 1/2 as strong as their regular priced drinks. (I had three in an hour, and with my lack of a tolerance, I should have been passed out on the floor, but I was only slightly buzzed - good thing.) The live band was HORRIBLE - not kidding... it was just a drummer and a guitarist, who kept saying things about how he wanted everyone there to hook up... and other stupid stuff. His music was bad too - bad bad covers of good songs.

I'm glad I went out though. I had gotten to the point were it seemed like to much work and too much money to go downtown. Heather actually dragged me off of Kristen's couch. We had a good time though, and hopefully we'll have lunch sometime this week.

So now I'm up and it's Sunday and I have three quarters instead of the necessary four and thus cannot do laundry... very upset about this. I also need to wrap those Christmas presents I'm so excited about. Maybe I should just suck it up and shower. Dammit.

French cooking class tomorrow. Woohoo.