CHIC PARTY DECORATIONS

Saturday: My Mom's birthday was today. I stayed up til 2am last night baking a cake. I got up this morning & went into her room where we gave her presents. Mine haven't arrived yet (I ordered them online). We went to Llangollen to The Corn Mill for lunch. It's been raining so much lately that the river next to the restaurant was huge. Quite impressive really. I ordered from the "light bites" section of the menu, (macaroni cheese) 7 assumed it would be a small portion. It wasn't. So I didn't finish it because I just couldn't manage it, & then the lady clearing our plates asked me in an aggressive manner if there was something wrong with the food. That's just bad service. It really annoyed me. I'm not always entirely comfortable when we go somewhere really posh, but at least they don't comment on what you've eaten.

We walked through the town next to this little antique shop my parents like, & then we headed to Eagles Meadow. I was innocently taking photos in the back of the car, & my Mom asked if she could look through my camera. I said yeah, cos it was no problem really, until she started going through some photos from the other night. There's nothing I want to hide, but I was specifically letting her look at the photos from today. I asked her to stop looking through them, & she refused. It was such a fucking breach of privacy. It turned into a row, of course. I always feel so stupid complaining about my privacy (which is something I really value) considering I write about my life on here. But I control this, in a way. It felt horrible someone going through my camera & not stopping.

After the row between us had died down, we went shopping a little. My Mom wanted to go & see the film '2012', but I am totally against those end of the world films. Not for me. The only other film showing was A Christmas Carol in 3D, so I went for that. Hugh came with me. I spent like ?30 of my own money with him, but I wanted him to have a nice time. We were going to go home after the movie, & then my parents were going to go out for a meal, but they figured it was easier to go to Frankie & Benny's, so I had a lovely cannelloni there before going home, where we ate cake. Everyone agreed it was a fabulous cake. =)

Sunday: I just watched TV today.

Monday: I spent all day tidying my Dad’s study. It seriously took me that long. & my arms hurt sooo much. I stored all of my books from the last 2 years of school in his study at home, & I finally tidied them today (6 months after finishing my exams, 4 months after finishing school). & I JUST SAW THE COCA-COLD ADVERT. Which means it's officially Christmas. My brother & I had this debate a couple of days ago, & he said it couldn't be Christmas in December, but Christmas decorations in some local towns went up in October, so I beg to differ.

Tuesday: I really don't remember what I did today. I went to my Spanish class though, & worked with the same couple I usually do.

220/365

Last Saturday night when I went to bed we had 6'' of snow on the ground. During the night it rained, Sunday morning all the snow was gone and I mean all of it. I made a comment that with all the rain in the forecast, there was no chance of a white Christmas. This morning at 5:00am I woke up to this, 20" of fresh snow. It is heavy with the water content at about 25%. All the school in our district were closed and a lot of guys couldn't get dug and get to work. We are use to a lot of snow, but anytime you get this much at one time it slows everything down. So I think now we may get our white Christmas. More snow expected tonight, I can't wait. My back is sore and I am running out of room to throw the snow.