Time for some Christmas spirit!

I decided that since December started on Friday (where did it come from, I thought it was still September) that it was time to get into the Christmas mood. So Friday night I called home and got my favourite Christmas baking recipes, went grocery shopping. Saturday I went Christmas shopping and then did Christmas baking and today I decorated. In my grocery shopping on Friday night I found the table cloth ($2.77 at Stupidstore!), while perusing flyers today I saw that Michael's had all their fake trees on for 40% off and so I picked up this little on there for $5 and my housemate was getting into the spirit too and she pulled out all her lights and loaned me some that she wasn't using and voila! I have some more lights to do something on my other window but I'm not sure what yet. I also bought gold and red bead garlands and put them in a glass vase on my coffee table and a mulled cider candle to make it smell Christmassy. Today I also went to a mass choir concert at a local church that the seminary choir was participating in of Advent carols. I love Christmas and especially the season of advent. I don't have an advent calendar or wreath so I may have to do something about that tomorrow, we'll see!
It has been a hard week in the world of LTS, it's the end of the semester hysteria setting in and people are getting touchy, emotional and worn out (including me). It ended with a 4 hour community meeting on Friday to discuss some of the issues that are going on in the community. I think we all need a break! 12 days until I come home, I can't wait! I'm home for 17 days fly back to Saskatoon long enough to unpack and repack so two days later I can fly off to Peru for 17 days coming home two days before classes start again, yikes! It's going to be quite the holiday season. Somewhere in there I may also move upstairs and give up my cozy suite, but that is yet to be decided and I'm not going to stress about it until it happens.
Papers are coming fast and furious. I had a productive weekend last weekend and finished 5 assignments of varying lengths. I wish I could say this weekend has been as productive schoolwise that is, I got lots of Christmas baking, shopping and decorating done but I'm not sure my profs care about that! Six assignments and one exam left before I'm done for the semester on December 14. I have finished two of them so I have a ways to go, two aren't due until next week so the other two will be getting done in the next few days! I'm off to bed but thinking I should plug in my car before I head to bed. I forgot to mention that was down to -30 this weekend, -40 with the windchill on Saturday, fortunately it went up to -13 today. Definitely plugged in my car yesterday! I'm glad to see it's raining in Vancouver much more Vancouverish than the weather they had last week, I don't want to come home to snow! Well I shall bring an end to this ramble.