the world of allie

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i just can't believe this

This has been the weirdest christmas i've ever had. we woke up preaty early on christmas morning and opened up our gifts (everyone got stuff they liked, which was nice). after eating breakfast, we packed and hopped in the car to head to wabasha, minnesota; where my dad grew up and where my grandma lives. the whole clan was planned on being there for "christmas dinner" on sunday. When we got there my aunt jill (my dad's half sister/same mom), her husband james and their 16 month old son austin were already there from minnesapolis. We had a traditional mid-western dinner called a "boiled dinner". i know i know this doesn't sound to good, and it doesn't smell too good, and it didn't look too good but it was suprisingly good. basically it is cabbage, arrugla, carrots, green beans, potatoes, onions and beaf... boiled in a water/oily broth (kinda like a soup but not a soup). after playing a rousing couple of games of uno, we went to our hotel room. now this is funny, this is such a small town that my grandma picked up the keys to our rooms two days before we even got there because the owners didn't want to have to work on christmas. we ate some food from the kwik trip and watched how the grinch stole christmas on tv in our somewhat old hotel room trying to figure out if this was the wierdest hotel situation we've ever been in (staying in a hotel in pennsylvania for some reason one time right across the street from an amish farm won out).

the next day we headed back to grandmas. the house isn't the biggest in the world and there were way too many people there today. here's the rundown of the mixed family we had there today....
grandma (dad's mom)
grandpa (dad's step-father)
my family (mom, dad, ben, me, and taffy our 10 year old golden retriver)
aunt jill (dad's half sister/same mom), husband james and baby austin
uncle steve (dad's younger brother), wife barb (second wife), her daugter laura, laura's baby son ethan from some guy, and laura's boyfriend (not ethan's father)
stan (dad's step-brother/grandpa's son from his frist marrige) and his wife leanne.

we had a dinner that was... well.... a little scary. it was chicken cooked in the oven with cream of mushroom soup..... yeah i became a vegitarian today.

the only form of entertainment today were the two babies, mostly austin who is the cuttest little thing in the whole wide world (i wish i had the link to the website with all his pictures on it). and besides some minor things where i thought i a verbal fight would break out it was an ok day.

we accidently took the long way home and on the way i saw a piggly wiggly, and a amish horse and buggy pass us.

it was a very mid-western weekend..

ok, so if anyone has been talking to me since i got to wisconsin the one thing i've been bitching about the most is the weather. now i'm just goign to lay it all out and get it off my ever freezing chest. this has been a cold i've never felt. it's so dry that the minute i step outside i start coughing. it creeps into my bones the minute i step out the door and i can feel all the moisture on and in my body freezing on contact. i've never not wanted to go outside before i came here. i'm so ready to never experience this ever again. how the hell do people live in this state!!

the holiday is coming up fast and my mother is going insane. no it's not because of the trafic to the stores or the weather or having everyone in the house all at once, but because she can't find her holiday bread. my mom (who grew up in chaos NY) spent every holiday with her holiday bread called babka. she's been i think to every bakery here in wausau and rothschild and when she asks for babka, they look at her like she has two heads. when turned down on her quest for babka she just wishes she was in NY where they all know the name..... this is just all so funny to me because this just adds to her disgust that they don't even know what baked ziti is either hahah.

so today i addressed an envelope to jeffords steel in plattsburgh for a co-op. i know that i usually say that i hate plattsburgh and there is nothing to do.. and that is basically true, but i realized something. since i would be spending my birthday during this co-op, i would rather be in driving distance to rochester so i can go to spring banquet or be able to spend my time with friends. i know that i have few friends in plattsburgh, i at least have some and since school with be in session i could met new people if i wanted to. i hope i hope i hope.

back in the good ole' wisonsin and all i have to say is that it's freezing out here. for anyone who thinks that the wind in rochester is bad, you have never felt this kind of wind before. it just makes me more happy to just lay in bed under my covers for the better part of today. it's been a while i've been able to do that.

i saw oceans 12 last night, now it did run a little slower than the first one... but i do love to see all my favorite actors have fun on the screen...idk if it was worth 8 dollars a ticket, but i'll definetly buy the dvd. ehehehehe

i realized that i haven't written in this for a while so here is a summery of what has been going on .....

LAST FRIDAY
last friday i went to the triangle dance party with my roommate... so this is the series of events hahaha
1. triangle (ran into anne and nick sanfo)
2. my apartment after the fire alarm went off (miguel showed up)
3. 4 riverknoll (jasmin was there)
4. 121 UC (ran into my roommate, brad and sean)
5. Colony (maria and tarquino)
4. 121 UC (dana and jon again)
it was such a random ass night hahahahhahah

DURING THE WEEK
i'm in the serch of a co-op so this week i sent out like 23 resumes to companys all over the states. then i picked up this industrial design magazine and it had a huge list of firms and services. so i started calling them to see if they were hiring. i got in touch with this company in burlington VT (one of my favorist cities) and they were really interested in seeing my stuff. now i'm all nerves and self concious to think that they may not hire me because of my work..... i'm trying to punch out some more furniture design for them and compile all my other consumer product work. this would be an interesting experience if i get it so i'm crossing my fingers and goign insane.

LAST NIGHT
i was planning another night on the couch (how last friday was supposed to turn out) but my friend mallika called me up and asked if i was going to the ID party and asked if i wanted to tag along with her and her boyfriend. we went and i got to hang out with my favorist ID people who unfortunetly i don't get to hang out with a lot, and some of my MET friends who i always end up partying with! the party was great till someone stole the tap, but it was already almost 2 am so we left to go home and to bed.

TODAY
i'm completely lazy and i'll probably regret not doing some work today but i have absolutely no motivation what-so-ever. We did put up the christmas tree and like every other christmas season i'm horribly homesick. not for wisconsin though, for the adirondacks.... it's just not christmas anywhere else. hopefully the rest of the weekend turns around and i get a shit load more work done.