Just Checkin In

I haven't written in a little bit, I just haven't really had anything interesting to say. I still really dont LOL but I wanted to let you know I was still here. Thanks for those who left comments and enjoyed my story and my poem.

I've just been helping my mom make toffee, peanut brittle, and fudge ever since I got off work (it would be last night since it's 5:26 in the morning) and it was my first year I really got in and helped instead of watching. My mom is the best cook i've ever seen and i dont just say that cause she's my mother, everybody says she should open up her own bakery and my brother and I's friends are always begging her to make them something. When people taste my moms cooking they understand why i'm fat LOL!

Anyway, every year around christmas she makes toffee and peanut brittle to give to people as presents. She likes to arrange them in cute little christmas tins. IT really warms her heart because she feels like that's the only thing she's good at and she likes letting people know she's thinking about them. She's just a sweetie like that.

She's always telling me how every since she was a little girl she used to love seeing her mom cook. She would be so young she had to stand on a box to reach the counter, she had a little apron and she would help her mother cook. She did that all her life, and her life was not easy. She mostly had to depend on herself and so she ended up getting very good at cooking. So now she has dozens of family recipes and her toffee is one of the imfamous recipes.

Well anyway, like I said this year I not only helped her, I did most of it myself, she mainly just supervised and made sure I didnt burn the house down LOL. Mamma says i'm a natural and i'm really good at spotting when the colors just right. That means a lot coming from her. Maybe there's hope for me after all LOL.

Anyway, we are making TONS of candy this year so we have enough to give to everyone since I have a lot more friends than I used to. I already made a list and I have named almost 20 people I want to give tins to and my mom wants to give some to her boss's. Maybe I will even give some to my boss's, not sure they deserve it though (JUST KIDDING! lol)

I did my christmas shopping on friday because that's when I got paid. I didn't have much money to do all that much, I mainly just care about getting my mom and brother presents. Last year I managed to spent like hundreds of dollars on both of them, not quite sure how I did that!! I think I didn't have as many bills and I was a lot more prepared then. So I feel bad I can't really do anything this year but at least I can do something right?

I bought my brother a 100 dollar drumset for his rockband. He is nuts about rockband and he already has the guitar and microphone and I thought he would love to have the drums for it. Now he can invite his friends over and they can all play it at the same time. He might go to jail soon, there's no tellin when but i'm pretty sure it's goin to happen, so I gave him his present early cause there's not even a guarentee he will be here on christmas.

I won't tell you what I got my mom because she might read this haha!! but I feel horrible cause it's not nearly enough. But walmart didnt have a very good selection when I was down there (I know, I was shocked too lol). Anyway, I know my mom and she's too humble and sweet to scoff at it, she will love it because it's from her rosebud and she's just happy to have a present.

Then I bought my main best friends little gifts and that's all I could do. My best friend Teri is a hard person to shop for, because she doesn't really want anything LOL. But she is even doin worse on money than I am and she used to love going down and getting her nails done but she hasn't in forever because she doesn't have the money anymore. So I told her we would go down sometime this week and she would get her nails done. I have to get mine done too because I know Teri and she won't do it if I cant get mine done too.

Anyway, this week my brother and my mom have been decorating the house with christmas lights and the christmas tree. We didnt put up as many lights this year. My mom's getting older and she doesn't have the energy to do as much as she used to. But we didnt want to look like scrooges so we decorated our porch and it looks cute. We used to always get real trees but my mom doesn't like having to vacuum pine needles so we bought a fake tree last year, it looks kinda pathetic until you get it all decked out with decorations then it looks cute. There's a pretty glowing star on the top. yay! Now all we need is presents to put under it.

I already know what my mom is giving me, because I overheard her talking about it to my brother. Poor mom, I have to good of hearing and my brother is too much of a loudmouth LOL! My mom has a major thing about things need to be given or done RIGHT ON the holiday and it needs to be a suprise. So she was really dissapointed so much she thought about taking it back and getting something I couldn't guess. But I told her not to because I really could use what she got.

Like I said before, I work cleaning buildings, and it can get really quiet and boring. So my mom thought, it would help a lot if I could listen to music while I work, so she got me a really expensive IPOD. I really wanted an ipod because all my co-workers and friends have ones and I dont and it gets way too quiet at work sometimes and I wanted to be able to listen to music, it would make work go by a lot easier. So I know there's really no sense on waiting till christmas and unwrapping my gift, but with my moms obbsession, I let her wrap it anyway. LOL.

Anyway, I better try to get some sleep. With my sleeping disorder 9 times out of 10 I stay up all night until like 7 or 8 in the morning. Most of the time it doesn't matter because my main friends are night owls too so I can just text with them and I dont work till the evening so I can sleep during the day. But tomorrow it's my best friend Abby's birthday and so i'm going to lunch with her so I better get some sleep so I can actually function LOL.

I hope everyone is having a good holiday!!

Melissa

P.S. I found out I have to work on christmas eve, which is very depressing considering my family has always celebrated christmas on christmas eve, not christmas day. All we do on christmas day is have dinner. This year for dinner we are having ham with my moms homemade ham glaze AND primerib roast. My brother is a loser who couldn't decide what he wanted more and my mom being a fabulous cook (as i said before) and being a sweetheart (again, as i said before) she offered to make both. Like a true fat kid, I dont care either way. As long as we eat. LOL. We are also having mash potatos and gravy, corn, rolls...gosh i'm hungry HAHA.