Holiday season!

After a long week of doing a lot of nothing, I finally left the house on Friday! Cautiously of course. My sorority was hosting a holiday-themed party, and I could not miss out on an opportunity to wear Christmas decor! Patricia's sweater has been very helpful for "Ugly-Christmas Sweater" parties, and I wore it with my red tank top, jingle bell earrings from Kate last year and jingle bell hair tie!

I really was feeling better, and you hit a point after being locked up inside so long where once you're any bit of better, you have to interact with the world. I've never been happier to socialize. Here are some pictures!

Shelley and I's big-little picture!

Kathryn, Jamie, me and Katie at the social!

Kathryn and I with Santa!

Even though it seems like this happens often, it really doesn't.

All of my friends are in the same place at the same time,

and we're smiling and getting along! Yay!

After the social, all of our friends typically met up at AEPi. It was one of those evenings where a few of us realized how deprived we are by not living together. It's the hardest thing ever when you know that some of your best friends are down the street doing the same thing you're doing, relaxing in the comfort in your room, but it's too much effort to walk over just to say hello. Or lug your computer and books over to do homework there. So we're all going to live together senior year to relive the memories :). It was nice to spend some weekend-night time together and just enjoy each other's company.

Saturday, I got back into scrapbooking mode and watched an entire disc of Gilmore Girls. I miss that show so much. I'll probably bring my DVDs back to school, which can't be for the better, consider I'll have a different workload starting my journalism sequence next semester. It was the most relaxing thing to enjoy Lorelai's humor and laugh at all the jokes just like I used to, and I look forward to not working winter break so I can scrapbook the past two semesters and catch up on some Gilmore Girls while I do it!

Since I have gotten so much sleep this week (although it was all necessary and none just felt extra), I was able to get through today which was a more normal, back-on-schedule day. I went to church, worked on an accounting project for hours, received an award for being the Relay For Life steering committee member of the month after three hours of Relay work and finally headed home! The most exciting part of my Sunday though: church. We had a hierarchical Divine Liturgy, meaning a bishop was serving, and the bishop was Archbishop Demetri. Since he's the chancellor of the Chicago branch of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, we know each other pretty well from him visiting my home parish, so it was a surprise to see him and his assistant in Columbia. But they were ultra nice to me, so much that I got to sit at the special lunch table after church, was introduced to some new parishioners, the PK treatment that I only receive in Chicago! It was fun.

Now off to complete my last few real assignments due of this semester, YES, IT'S ALMOST OVER! What a semester.