happy christmahannukwanzoxing day!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I <3> Christmas. And Christmas break. Which I now find is already halfway over. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!?!?! Saturday I had a meet and that pretty much took up the whole day (I came in 3rd in the 3000m! Woohoo!) Then christmas eve, then christmas, then the day-after-christmas, which don't really count as normal vacation time because they're special...which puts me at today. And I had practise this morning where I (and the rest of the team) were informed that we had actually been expected to run one of those days...and here i thought my coach was being all nice and giving us a three day break. Argh.

SO. Christmas. Very good. I got loads of stuff (the benefit of a large extended family) including a ton of clothes, even more clothes courtesy of gift cards, a new purse, new earings, the second season of gilmore girls, a few books, new PJs, and a giant stuffed Cheburashka (russian cartoon character) which is the cutest thing EVER. Christmas morning we drove out to long island where everyone lives except us and visited with both my grandmas. My grandma (mom's side) made everyone participate in her 2nd annual christmas McNeill family talent show (it's very low pressure). I recited the whole christmas story which i told you i had memorized thanks to candlelight tours. Then dinner at grandma's house before going to nannie's for desert. it was a madhouse there. Eleven kids between the ages of 2 and 15. And they're all boys except for me, Lilly, and my little cousin Annie (who's the two year old). It was fun, though.

And now it's over. Not much is happening the rest of the week, which is utterly fine by me. Just practise tomorrow and the day after and the track holiday party tomorrow night. No clue what i'm doing for new years. So how was everyone else's christmas?