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A friend and I did a shot each right outside of the exam room as it was the last final of the term for both of us.<\/p>\n<p>We may have gotten silly looks for that.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>anyways<\/em>, it&#8217;s time for my winter holidays! Which means I finally started on my Christmas knitting on Thursday (yes, I know, it&#8217;s a bit late). I have a couple things that I&#8217;m making, the rest of the gifts will be store-purchase because I seem to have this habit of never getting started on shopping or crafting early enough to <em>not<\/em> drive myself bonkers. You would think that I would have learned better by now (apparently, I have not).<\/p>\n<p>Things that I want to do this holiday season include&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baking! I want to make shortbread and sugar cookies. And cupcakes. And cakes. Lots and lots of baking shall occur in my house, thanks to me!<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate K&#8217;s birthday!<\/li>\n<li>Attend the company Christmas party, yay!<\/li>\n<li>Work on a few more crochet patterns that I want to get up<\/li>\n<li>Clean my room (???)<\/li>\n<li>Spend time with my boyfriend!<\/li>\n<li>Spend time with my friends!<\/li>\n<li>Not yell at my cousin&#8217;s children from being selfish, self-centred little miscreants!<\/li>\n<li>Blog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->While I was on a blogging hiatus, due to studying for finals and whatnot, I got &#8220;tagged&#8221; on Facebook to do a silly little meme, which is supposed to be about coming up with &#8220;25 things that no one else knows about you&#8221;. Which I&#8217;ve been tagged in before <em>multiple times<\/em>. And then I go and untag myself. And I don&#8217;t really see the point in it, seeing as once I come up with 25 things that &#8220;no one&#8221; else knows about me, I&#8217;ll get tagged a few months or a year from now and need to come up with another 25 things. But just for giggles, here I go:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When I get upset, I either go for a run or bake. But when I bake, it&#8217;s not necessarily because I&#8217;m upset. And if I run, it&#8217;s either for the bus\/train or because I&#8217;m upset.<\/li>\n<li>I used to take skating lessons and I was actually pretty decent at going forwards, backwards and stopping. After a few years of not skating and also realizing that people are stupid for trusting a little piece of metal to balance on, I&#8217;m <em>really<\/em> bad at it. And I like walls when I skate now. A lot.<\/li>\n<li>I prefer crocheting over knitting (most days, sometimes I&#8217;m just a nutter who likes the needles over the hooks). I learned how to knit before I learned how to crochet. I like being able to do both and like surrounding myself with yummy, squishy yarn.<\/li>\n<li>I like sprinkles. I don&#8217;t like eating sprinkles by themselves.<\/li>\n<li>I caught a bee or wasp in my hand when I was an infant and I&#8217;m mostly petrified of being stung by one now because I know the chances of me having a serious reaction are much higher due to my previous encounter. Luckily I&#8217;ve never caught a bee or wasp in my bare hand again (with a net, however, I have).<\/li>\n<li>I have 9 (nine!) email addresses. That I actively check. And yes, I use them all.<\/li>\n<li>I have 7 domains. I would have a food\/baking blog if I could actually ever take photos before eating everything.<\/li>\n<li>I may be addicted to Twitter. Wait, that&#8217;s not a secret&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Of all the textbooks I&#8217;ve ever had to buy for school, my <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fundamentals of Anatomy &amp; Physiology<\/span> textbook set is my favourite. It has beautiful photos and illustrations.<\/li>\n<li>I liked Twilight before everyone was obsessed about sparkly vampires and buff werewolves. Now I don&#8217;t like it so much. Fangirls ruined the series. That and people who mock fans for being absolute nutbars.<\/li>\n<li>I scream or yell or my throat just stops working when I see a spider. I have little-to-no-problems with insects though. Although I did freak out a little on the inside at a live cockroach.<\/li>\n<li>I like playing games on my Nintendo DS. It&#8217;s black-and-crimson. There&#8217;s no <em>i<\/em> or <em>XL<\/em> in the name. Technically it&#8217;s the &#8220;DS Lite&#8221;. I also wish I had a Wii. The red one.<\/li>\n<li>I love going to see musicals.<\/li>\n<li>I have two books autographed by my favourite paranormal romance author, Sherrilyn Kenyon.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Un<\/span>realistically, I&#8217;d want to rule the world. &#8220;Her Supreme and Divine Ruler&#8221; sounds good to me!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m of the belief that the reason that we don&#8217;t have jet packs and hover space cars in 2010 is because the governments keep on pouring money into wars and political disputes. Jet packs would be so much more awesome.<\/li>\n<li>I think the polar bear is the <strong>best<\/strong> animal in the world. And yes, I would rank them above humans. Stick insects would come in second place. Jellyfish or sea otters would be tied for third.<\/li>\n<li>I hope to be done with school in the majority of it&#8217;s entirety before I&#8217;m 25 years old. And I hope to have two Bachelors by then.<\/li>\n<li>I resent the fact that my parents discouraged me and would not allow me to pursue my educational dreams when I was in grade school. Primarily for actively <em>discouraging<\/em> me from entering into a French immersion program or the International Baccalaureate program.<\/li>\n<li>In the Chinese culture, you refer to your parents&#8217; friends as uncles and aunties and refer to your real uncles and aunts by different titles (usually to do with numbers that relate to their &#8216;rank&#8217; in the sibling order, eldest to youngest). My <em>least favourite<\/em> of all my parents&#8217; friends is this woman (an &#8220;auntie&#8221;) who liked to touch my ear lobes when I was younger. She also gave me lemon cough drops as a Christmas gift one year.<\/li>\n<li>I hate it when people discuss my weight. Primarily about how <em>fat<\/em> I am because I happen to eat more or because I&#8217;m not underweight like someone in my family who is.<\/li>\n<li>I like shopping for my boyfriend because he&#8217;s just easy for me to shop for. I also like making cutesy-yet-appropriate things because I know that he likes them.<\/li>\n<li>I like to believe that most people are inherently good. It doesn&#8217;t always work out well with that ideal though.<\/li>\n<li>I enjoy lingerie and other pretty, frilly, lacy or silky clothes that I don&#8217;t wear out in public.<\/li>\n<li>My current holiday wish is a selfish one. None of this curing world hunger or clothing everyone. I just want to spend more time with Clay.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What are 25 things about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! I&#8217;m baaaaaaaack! I finished my last final (Animal Mechanics) on Wednesday. I may have then subsequently fallen into a pattern of catching up on the week plus worth of television episodes that I missed (mostly General Hospital, there was some Castle, Glee and Ellen Degeneres mixed in there as well). 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