5:32p

different day
yippy! woke up this morning at 10:30a...an hour earlier than yesterday.
progress.
My boyfriend woke me up with his phone call.
Luckily he didn't interrupt my dream...about Justin Timberlake.
he kissed me.
wierd!!!! I don't even think of him in that way. He's like 8 years younger
than me.
But it was still a nice dream.
hehehe....I'm sure Bev has more of those dreams than I do, though! ;)

My brother stayed over last night and was already awake
before me. As usual he was hungry, so he invited me to breakfast.
his treat for my b-day. how sweet!
We pigged out yet again on grease, grease, grease.
It was pretty much heart attack food.
Felt a little icky afterwards, but it sure was good while I was eating. :)

Then, i took off for Ikea to buy some last minute items for Saturday's party.
Of course, idiot me drove through the storm in 45 mph traffic.
Luckily the rain stopped when I came out of Ikea 1.5 hours later,
so the drive back wasn't as bad.

Crippsmas Place
one thing I love about x-mas is seeing people's homes all decorated in lights.
Despite the amount of electricity it takes,
It's like being in Vegas, but more "homey".

There's actually a street near my neighborhood that gets all into it.
The whole street, Cripps Court, and some of the other homes on the adjacent streets
decorate their houses with lights - TONS of them, disney caricatures, nativity scenes...you name it.
This year, they even puts lights on the street light at the end of their cul de sac and
added wooden caricatures of Harry Potter and co. climbing the light.
They get really creative like that!

The difference with this neighborhood effort is that they do it in the
name of charity.
A few years ago, the son of one of the family's that lives on Cripps Court
died of Leukemia.
This inspired the family to create this neighborhood of lights and would
collect donations for the Leukemia Society from the visitors who
would drive through.

I actually drove through this area on Tusday night before my
dinner date with my best friend.
There's just something about seeing everything lit up.
I felt like a kid again.
For some reason, I even got all veklempt and started tearing.
Then again I cry at everything...
But still - it was a pretty interesting moment.
I wish my boyfriend was there to share it with me, though.

There were a couple of neighbors outside greeting visitors and
carrying their donation buckets.
I felt pretty dumb cause I didn't even have 50 cents to donate!
sad. I just waved really fast and looked away.