Santa...I know him! I KNOW HIM!

So its about 20 degrees outside and what am I eating?...Ice cream (I am without a doubt my father's daughter). Not only ice cream. Ice cream with some mallows! Its good to know I'm staying true to my blog title.

Christmas is upon us! 17 days...I'm so ready. Are YOU ready? (just out of kanakuk habit, my auto response to this is always "I was born ready!") And only 13 until Montana. Only 3 days left of practicum for the semester. Today was the last day of class. And one more paper due Monday. Then I'm officially on winter break! PTL. I'm very much going to enjoy not having a schedule, no homework, sleeping in, hoping for snow to do some sledding, and lots-o-lots of Christmas baking of course : ) Along with enjoying doing absolutely nothing, I have a list of just a few things I really want to accomplish over break including...

-Catch up on some reading. I'm shooting to finish HP7 and start and complete Les Miserables.

-Learn some new tunes on the piano. Its been a while since I've had free time to challenge myself with some new songs

-Scrapbook some up to date

-Color a little bit in christmas coloring books (color me 5 years old)

-Last but not least, be a bit of a lazy bum and watch endless Christmas movies. This is what break is really for in college. Seriously.

Speaking of Christmas movies, I believe these are my absolute favorite top 10 that I will need to scrounge up to watch. Majority of these I have on VHS. Not gonna lie...I miss those VHS days sometimes. But here they are...in no specific order, because asking me to pick one over the other is like asking me to pick my favorite Disney song...

1) Elf

2) The Santa Clause

3) Jingle All The Way

4) Home Alone & Home Alone 2 (this may be cheating putting them together, howeverrrrrr I'm over it)

5) White Christmas

6) How The Grinch Stole Christmas (The fires of looooooooove. Oh martha, oh christmas!)

7) Miracle on 34th Street

8) The Nightmare Before Christmas

9) A Charlie Brown Christmas

10) Its a Wonderful Life

In the season of everything wintery wonderfully wonderful, me and Alysia had our annual plaza date! I love this tradition that we have kept up with. 4 years going strong! We both are crazy busy: me with college and her with her big girl job, but we look forward to this in order for both of us to just relax, dress up & have a night on the town, catch up on life, and have some quality BFF time. We started out ice skating down at crown center....I have not ice skated since senior year in HS. To sum up, lets say I almost ran over multiple little children. Watch out parents when Tori's on the ice! Alysia found it veryyyyy amusing as to how I tried to skate backwards and wanted a video...I'm kind enough to share that video with yall. Thanks Alysia for making it sound like you're talking to a dog... "show me your trick, Tori!"

 Here is how my plaza date went down, in pictures...

 

I got to meet up with some crazy kids of TBC

I feel like we should send out a holiday card together, I think we're at that step in our relationship.

Me brushing up on my Broadway knowledge via quiz book

Next time I'll be blogging I shall officially be on break! So for you fellow students - good luck with finals and enjoy break. And for those of you with legit adult jobs - sorry to be rubbing in my 4 weeks of laziness. (but not that sorry considering its my last winter break as a college student so I'm living it up as much as possible!) : ) Until we meet again...have a wonderful week & preparing for Christmas!

Your not-so-really-much-of-a-movie-challenge-because-its-so-obvious quote..."First we'll make snow angles for two hours, then we'll go ice skating, then we'll eat a roll of Tollhouse cookie dough as fast as we can, and then to finish...we'll snuggle."