holiday update numéro quatre: thank you Santa!

allright, let's get this bitch done.

december 24th, (Christmas Eve): went for a run at the Irving Nature Park, it was REALLY GREAT. warm and sunny, and at one point during my run I stopped because there was a tree full of birds - but not just any kind of bird - New Brunswick's OFFICIAL bird, the black-capped chickadee!!! YEAH. and they went in my hand!!! it was just... one of those moments.

in the afternoon my dad, Ben and I all went and walked around upper pond, though we could clearly not go skating - it was just really nice, SO QUIET... much unlike T-Dot. and that night all the Vautours came over, (well most of them,) and it was a lovely holiday party.

december 25th, (Christmas Day): woke up way too early due to Ben's waking me up. but it was worth it. I got some pretty great gifts, I am very lucky. like what, you ask?? ahhhh, well a new silver watch, Nautica Voyage, $100 from memere which I spent on a new coat today and still have $65 left to spend, holla. on Christmas Day we visited around, went to church in the morning, and ate to the death. and chilled. and ate. and chilled. um... did i mention I ate??? oh, and of course, family is the most important thing of all, undoubtedly, don't ever forget this!!

december 26th, (Boxing Day.): in New Brunswick, Boxing Day isn't really Boxing Day, as it's illegal for stores to be open on the 26th. so, it's more like "Chill Day" or "Slack Day" or something like that. my friends from abercrombie apparantly had a hard time understanding this, such as katie irvine, who thought I had a mental disorder. but anyway, since I have been eating so much and I plan to debut my modelling career in about 2-3 weeks, I started my nazi fitness program by going out in the freezing cold rain (it wasn't actually freezing rain, who cares) and ran the INP. YEAH. and then I chilled alllllllllll day long, opting to not participate in my parents' trip with Ben to the local bowling alley - I am definitely too cool for this. and then Katie came to visit me, we ended up talking for three hours, very informative, and fun, and excellent. I am happy this happened!

december 27th, (New Brunswick's real shopping day): woke up at 7AM, that's right. and was out the door by 8AM to rape some bargains. basically my bro and my mom and I looked around a bunch of places, and weren't done until 12:30PM, but I didn't find my much-wanted coat. so, later in the afternoon, mom and I went back out east and I got a really nice coat from Old Navy, $35! shit son! sooo I have $65 left, possibly for another coat maybe? I mean... my coat is from Banana Republic, and cost at least $150, right?? right. then I met up with my classic summer-of-05 tradition of tim's dates with Nicole and JF, it was great. last year, JF got me a plush "TB" doll, aka a plush version of the Tuberculosis Virus. I believe this is in my room in TO. Annnd then he gave me another such plush doll, except now it's "Ebola." Toooooo cute eh?

allright, so here I am now. tomorrow is gonna be another run, and some WEIGHT TRAINING, and REASONABLE EATING. back on track!!! gotta be fit! annnd hopefully, if all goes my way, I will be going to dinner with Justine. and maybe even a movie. she is after all my platonic girlfriend, and has been for a very long time. rawr.

finally, a shoutout to all my RTA homies who I have not seen in a while. I love you all, let's get academic in 2007!!! YEAHHH. (let's get academic? ...I should probably be shot)

AND also a shoutout to my Aberfriends. I apologize for a) being off since december 6th, and b) going home for Christmas in New Brunswick, making me c) legally dead in the eyes of Abercrombie. special props go out to Anna, Rena, Allison, Irene, Tyler, Jenny, Elaine, Andrea, Ashley, Katherine, Adam, and many others who I miss the most. (sorry if I didn't write your name, I am so tired, don't shoot me. I miss you too!!!!!)

AAAND a final shoutout to Kelsey, whooo I saw twice today (the 27th) since not seeing herrr in August. Ridonculous, eh???? Sorry Kelsey, I was (and still am) sooo tired upon writing this to begin with. I shall now go and sleep forrrever.

Happy Holidays - P.S. Joel's RIDONCULOUS YEAR-END COMPILATION IS COMING UP SOON. STAY TUNED - IT'S BIG. HUGE. we're talking... Kanye West ego here. very big. click here to see the 2005 compilation, try not to die.

peace,
Joel