To Do To Do

You guys want some links?

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Christmas links?

Christmas yummy links?

Yes?

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Well. I'm gonna give you some anyway. If only as a solid to do/super high hopes list for myself. We're having a Christmas party when I get home from school and I put myself in charge of baking. Aren't I the ambitious little bugger?

But really, there is nothing more Christmasy than baking till the cows come home with some Bing Crosby crooning in the background. Or the foreground. Who am I kidding, music is always in the foreground with me.

And I just get all fluttered when I see pictures of sugar-dusted cookies and other sweet morsels with blurry lights and/or greenery and/or tinsel in the background.

How cute are these? Guaranteed that the icing and decorating on mine will not look like that: Gingerbread Heads

I'm a sucker for sugar cookies at any holiday: Colorful Swirl Cookies

SO FESTIVE: Cookies Cutter Fudge

I have always wanted to try to make bark. And I will! It shall happen! Oreo Bark

These are just begging to be made: Reeses Stuffed Oreos

Chocolate Sugar Cookies ? Please tell me how this could possibly get any better.

Ok, so I don't like eggnog. But this looks so ridiculously good. Maybe a Christmas Eve breakfast, I'm thinking? Eggnog Breakfast Crumble Cake

And here's a last kiss goodnight from the Merry Christmas dorm of the perpetually self-inflicted sleep deprived. But, I couldn't resist.

Mah Na Mah Na

Soooooo guess what movie I saw twice in the course of 3 days?

I'm not kidding when I say it is literally one of the best movies ever made. And it is now my favorite movie. And I do NOT do favorites. I am the poster child for indecisiveness. 

I  went to see the movie with my family on Friday night, and the audience was mostly adults, who are we kidding.  I was bursting with excitement as soon as Cinderella's castle appeared.

THE MUSIC IS SO GOOD. It's on repeat on Spotify right now...

Also, I really like cameos. Like, a lot. And there were a thousand. Every time a new celebrity popped up on screen, I gasped and started giggling (my poor cousin who was sitting next to me thinks I'm insane now).

I got goosebumps when they started singing the Muppet Show Theme.

And the end. Don't get me started. Because the surprise was the best part. 

So.

I'm in the car on the way back to school, and I'm texting my friend, Maddy. And we start talking about the Muppets (typical topic, right?) So Maddy says, 

"We should go see it!"

"LET'S SEE IT TONIGHT"

"Um. Ok..."

Just kidding, she was excited.

So we went, and it was great.  

It's the best feeling ever to be able to go to a movie with a good enough friend that they let you completely geek out and clutch their arm at multiple (*ahem* 15) points during the course of the movie.

True friendship.

The moral is: everyone needs to see this movie. And buy the soundtrack. Or get it for a loved one or five for Christmas.

You will not regret it.

If you'll excuse me, I'm just going to listen to this for the rest of the day.

Christmas Time is Here

Merrrrrrrryyyy Christmas!!!

Well, almost. How about Happy Advent?

All I know is that I am particularly in the Christmas spirit tonight.  I've got the Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas on ABC Family playing, a Christmas wreath made with real fir tree branches (courtesy of Home Depot) hanging on my door, wafting me with that sweet sweet smell every time I walk by, Christmas lights all over the place, candy canes, lalala.

I just got back from the best vacation ever, which I completely blame for my giddy, Elf-esque mood lately. I walk into the hotel on Tuesday night and am greeted by this:

It's a giant gingerbread pirate ship. Made with real gingerbread. And it suh-melled like the North Pole.

Then there was this:

So I'm prancing about the lobby in time to the Christmas carols playing, with my family inching their way away, grinning to placate me. God love 'em.

I got to see this on Thanksgiving morning:

I almost cried when we had to leave.

But now.......

I have so much to do. Christmas spirit time!!!!!

That means this and these and some of these and so much more.

I AM SO EXCITED.

And there's the whole finals thing....

Nope. I'm gonna make some snowflakes.

Thanksgiving Week

Hello there blogging world!

I did it.

I've been waiting and waiting for my brain to finally give in and let myself create a blog. And lo and behold, on this rainy Monday before Thanksgiving, as I sit here, in my dorm room, putting off my Humanities paper...

A little about myself.

I'm a student at The Catholic University of America. I am pursuing a Bachelor's of Music degree in Vocal Performance. Music, in a nutshell, is my life. When I was younger, the worst punishment possible for me to receive from my parents was for my boom box (yes, boom box) to be taken away. I love love love living in Washington, DC. All of the history, the opportunities, the beautiful sights and places. I could go on forever.

I love to read and write. I've been making up stories since I was a little girl. I would sit down at the kitchen table on a Saturday morning with ten pages of printer paper stapled together with a title page in my best elementary school scrawl reading, "The Adventures of Kathy Green," or "The Princess and the Bakery," and write diligently for half a page before seeking out a snack.

Oh, that's the other thing...

Food.

My love.

The hours I spend pouring over food blogs, scouring used books stores for cookbooks,  drooling over pictures on Pinterest . It's embarrassing. My one trial at the moment is that I only have a communal kitchen, one pot, a baking sheet, some measuring cups, and the fact that I am forced to be on a meal plan for another semester. My life is so hard.

Lastly, my faith. I was raised Catholic and always have been. But I never discovered my passion for the faith until I came to CUA. Being surrounded by wonderful teachers and peers who share in this has only made me grow and grow in my love for Catholicism. God has blessed me and I am so grateful to Him!

Well, there it is!

I suppose I should maybe work on my papers. But with a sunny Floridian Thanksgiving vacation calling to me from the other side of my Harmony test tomorrow morning, it's going to be rough.

Patron Saint of Get-My-Brain-to-Focus-Please, pray for us.