Well, just as the title says, the holidays are here and wow, it has been quite some time since I last posted in my blog. Don't blame me for it, though! Blame school and all the essays, projects and papers that need to be written, polished and handed in. It's not easy keeping up a 91% average, you know! Anyway, way too much has been happening to give a detailed account of everything, but I will give a brief overview of the important stuff.

All of my projects and essays are getting finished and handed in on time. Yay for me doing everything at the last minute and still getting 90's on it all! My parents are astounded and can't figure out how I manage it. Either I have horseshoes up my ass or I'm just that pro... I prefer to believe the latter of these two explanations, but I'm sure that's not it.

I just recently found this great word game that donates to charity and it's FREE! It's called Free Rice and it's a game that improves your vocabulary. For every question you get right, the site donates twenty grains of rice to starving people in third-world countries. It's the only game we're actually allowed to play on the school computers. I warn you, though. It's extremely challenging. The head of our English department even got stuck on a few of the questions. It certainly does improve your vocabulary, though. If you want to improve your vocabulary and end world hunger, follow this link:

http://www.freerice.com/

Now... as for what is going on in Rosethorn's life recently, not much beides school. I'm a little disappointed that T. J can't do D&D this week because he has "something to do". I'm kind of suspicious because he usually tells me outright what he has to do if it involves cancelling something with me. I don't care if he wants to hang out with a girl he likes or if he's working or something like that, but if it has anything to do with my ex, I'll freak out! I know he's friends with him and all, but ditching me and cancelling previously made plans to do something with him will not only piss me off beyond belief, but hurt me as well. I'm suspicious that that's what it is, because as I said, T. J usually tells me why he needs to cancel plans with me with no problems, but he was so vague this time. He knows me well enough to know that it'll hurt my feelings if he ditches me for Brad (my ex) so he probably wouldn't want me to know. Still, if that's the case (it might not be, and I might just be jumping to conclusions) I'll be soooooo angry with him. Assuming I'm right, he's my best friend and he's lying to me, cancelling plans with me in order to hang out with someone who emotionally abused me to the point where I didn't want to wake up and get out of bed in the morning, plus he knows that it's wrong and hurtful to me and he's doing it anyway. If it involves schoolwork with Brad, I don't care but I'm pretty sure they don't have any classes together. Anyway, if it turns out my suspicions are right, I'll let you know what happens afterward.

I was also very upset that I couldn't go to semi formal or prom this year, but then things brightened up for me. At first, T. J wasn't going to semi because he needed to save money for prom which meant that I couldn't go either even though I wanted to and went since grade nine, because I wouldn't have anyone to go with. Even though T. J's going to prom, either he'll have a date or he'll ditch me to hang out with Brad and all the rest of his loser friends, leaving me by myself on prom which would just be depressing. Then I was talking to my other best friend, Marilyn, and she told me that she was going to go to both and as far as she knew, she wouldn't have a date for either event so we could both go and hang out! I was so happy and I'm buying my ticket on Monday at school. Yay, one bad thing resolved with a happy ending!

Anyway, on an even happier note, I went to my town's Christmas Parade with Joanna and Marilyn last night. It was so much fun and we got candy cane hot chocolates at Tim Hortons. Best hot chocolate EVER! We stopped at the libray and I took out a stack of books. I'm already almst finished one of them, even though it's like 300 pages. T. J said he'd be there but he wasn't so I'm going to have to slap him on Monday after we record our vocal class' Christmas CD for a fundraiser at this year's Christmas Concert. He might refuse to sing if I slap him before we record. Oh, and we saw a REAL camel walking beside some miniature reindeer, even though it was like -30* celcius and snow everywhere. When I told my aunt's boyfriend afterwards, he started laughing and said "That poor camel's probably like 'where the hell am I... and what the hell are you?'" It was so funny! Then we saw a calf on the dairy tractor float and it was sooo cute! One of my favourites was a big tractor strung with Christmas lights and on the back it had a big sign that said "Rudolph the Red-Nosed John Deere"! The sign was actually printed in ink and laminated too! It was so cool! (Wow, I just realized that I sound like such a hick).

Anyway, enough for today. I have limited time on the computer and other stuff to do.