Christmas

This year, there wasn't very much Christmas hype, and I'm not sure why. The stores weren't any more busy than they usually are, and this seems to be a nation-wide phenomenon. This is probably what the Mayans predicted.

 I got sick on Christmas, too. I actually vomited for the first time in 12 years. I was shocked. While it was happening, I thought to myself "There goes my 12 years record...". Upside is, this proves that my body is still capable of this basic self-defense mechanism. I was kind of worried that it wasn't. In Katimavik, one time everyone in the house was sick and going about this action, except for me. There were actually three people in the house who didn't get sick, but I did, and I was the only sick person not to throw up.

I was surprised at how natural it was.  After not having done it for so long, I'd built it up in my mind as some really awful thing, but in the end, it wasn't too bad at all.

My brother got sick, too, although perhaps not quite so much as me, and my mother didn't really get sick. Mom's wondering if me and my bro ate anything she didn't, since the symptoms seem a bit like food poisoning.

Anyway, I managed to keep my spirits up. This year, I got a camera, which is great, because my old one is ancient. I've probably talked about it in the past, how it has an "attitude" and how it's so old that when people see it, they think it's new. This new one's got million settings, including ones as cryptic as one for babies, one for flowers, one for fireworks, and one for parties.

I also got a printer. Nice, portable little thing that can still print in colour, scan, and do photocopies. I'm gonna bring it back to my dorm. I used to have to write up my papers in my room and go to school to print them out.