Christmas Concerts and Madlibs

Well ive had an interesting couple of days since I last posted.

Wednesday my dad came to town. I had been looking forward to that, until he made it all complicated, and completely disappointed me. Let me explain; usually sometime in the summer I go to Powell River to stay with my dad and stepmom for a few days, but this summer I couldnt really, because I needed all the shifts I could snag at coyotes. Also, everytime my dad has come to Nanaimo he only stays for a couple hours, because of the lame ferry system to Powell River. SO, this past August I asked my dad if he would like to come here, and stay overnight at my place. He seemed genuinely surprised and pleased at this offer, and we agreed on a weekend good for both of us. As days went by, and it got nearer to when he was supposed to be here, I got worried that he hadnt called, so I called him, and he was like, oh, weve already taken the ferry a bunch of times this month, so we arent going to come.

Awesome.

So that was really lame, but he said he would come in November or something. Allright, thats cool. Well November came, and I was really ridiculously busy, working 30 hours a week, going to school, making props, being at the show every night, going to all the parties, and trying to keep up with my different groups of friends.. it was madness. So I said, why dont you come on December 6th instead, that way you can see my choir concert! ( he was never heard me sing) so he said, is that a weekend? but no, tis a wednesday. So he said, Great. because weekends really arent good for us. Again the day he was supposed to visit draws near, and I get antsy cause I havent heard from him, so I call to confirm.

He says, oh. yeah. Fridays arent good for me.

DUDE its a WEDNESDAY!

Seriously, wtf dad?? SO anwyays, he says he'll come, but only til like 6. Which means he would be missing my concert. He will be missing his daughter sing on stage, yet again. And its not like there havent been plenty of opportunities! BUt okay, hes still coming, i can still show him what my life is like. December 6th arrives, and with it, so do my father and stepmother, around 11:30. I didnt really have the day " planned out" but I had a few things I wanted to do with them, like show them where I work, walk around the harbour, show them the school, maybe do some shopping, I dont know. Maybe I just really wanted to do everyday stuff, to make it seem like I actually had some sort of real relationship with my dad.. anyways, so they show up, and tell me that theyre only staying til 1:00. 2 and a half hours. After I havent seen my dad for nearly a year. All we had time for was a quick present exchange, and a coffee at Coyotes, then they left.

So you know what? Im giving up. Im not going to try anymore. All it brings me is disappointment. If he wants to talk to me, he can call, if he wants to see me, he can come here. But thats it. im not going to waste my time, energy, and emotion on someone who so clearly does not care.

IN other news, the concert was spectacular! it was my new choirs first performance, btu we rocked anyways! We were the smallest choir there, but made up for it with total awesmity. WE got lots of applause and compliments after the show! Other than that, the concert was just fun anyways. The whole audince stands up in between choirs to sing christmas carols together. Its soo nice, and one of my absolute favorite nights of the whole year!

Thursday I worked in the morning, and then Jill, NIkki, and Lisa came over to get some hardcore studying done for our Theatre History exam. After about an hour of goofing off and looking at pictures, we finally managed to get our notes otu and look at them. ALl in all, it took us about 45 minutes to get through the entire semesters worth of information. How sad is that? Oh well, at least i didnt have to worry about it anymore. So by then it was around 5, and Nikki had to go home, but Lisa and Jill decided they would hang out with me that night and watch Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Also, Tasia was going to come over to watch it with us too. Well... after a little while we got bored, and didnt want to watch the movie right away, so we decided to go to the mall ( this was a good idea, cause I reaaaally needed to get some flea collars for my cats) . So we went, i bought some shirts, we ate some subway, we took amusing pictures of ourselves, and eventually found ourselves in Chapters, where we wanted to buy some madlibs. Then, we ran into Nathan, who apparently works there. He said he was hanging out with Martha after work, and we said we were doing madlibs and watching POTC2. So we decided to combine these two events, and have Nathan and Martha over. And of course, this meant that we needed some brownies as well! So we decided to wait in Starbucks for Nathan to get off work, and amuse ourselves with Mad libs ( which we did) Then both Kylan and Gregoire called, saying, what are you guys doing tonight? So they decided they would come over as well. Then I called up tristan and was like, what are you doing tonight? So he came over too! So we had a huge fun filled evening with brownies, movies, madlibs, and What If? questions.

Friday I had the WHOLE DAY OFF which would have been super awesome if I didnt have to write an exam.. Although that went by not too badly. I know if I really tried I could have done better, but I just didnt care.
Then I had nothing to do until that night, when I went to the movies with Jen, Dave, Rob, and Ali. We went to see Apocalypto, which I guess was good... I dont know, it was hard to tell because i covered my eyes for like, half the show. Seriously, it was so gory. Needlessly so, even. and by the time the movie was over it was past midnight, so I just went home and SLEPT IN, it was so wondrous. I woke up on Saturday to my phone ringing ( at noon). It was Nadia, calling me to ask if I could come in any earlier than 4:30. And of course, being as nice as I am, I said yeah, I could come in at 2. Work was fairly uneventful; had a fun time closing with Noel. Then at 8 Allen picked me up to take me to the Satyr christmas party!!!
I had a pretty good time at the party, although a lot of people didnt show up, which was lame. It meant a lot of people didnt get their presents, and Eliza wasnt there to get hers from me! I got mine though! Spencer was my secret santa, and he got me a chinese takeout box filled with coffee beans and christamssy things! I was tres pleased. WE also played charades, and I discovered I am the best at playing charades, ever. Seriously. I could guess them before they even started acting. And me and Gregoire exercised our incredible mind meld powers! It was fabulous. I heart charades.
I didnt stay at the party too long, because I was tired from work, and I knew I had to go to work the next day.

Sunday at work was SO LAME. I was kind of in a bad mood for no reason, and everyone could totally tell. Everyone kept asking me if I was okay, which drove me crazy! Tristan ( who I was closing with) probably thought I was insane, because I totally wasnt talking to him, which is very unsusual. I felt pretty bad later, because I must have been the crappiest person to close with. PLus I found out today at work that Nancy said I was being "sluggish" and had to be told what to do, and so I sort of got into trouble. BY that I mean Nadia was like, hey Bri, dont do that, but still. I get so put out when I get chastised in any sort of way. Other than that though, work today was good, It was only four hours, and it went by quickly, and i certainly wasnt SLUGGISH! Graaaaar..
After work I raced home to try and clean up my place a bit before people came over for christmas crafts. That didnt work out too well. I got some mgus clean, and picked up a bit, but there are still tons of dishes in the sink, and my room is a disaster! And I didnt have time to clean up after crafts, so there is stuff everywhere.. and tomorrow JIll is supposed to be moving in. I feel bad, because she has to move into this messy house! Oh well... I have some time on Wednesday after the exam, and before my coyotes christmas aprty, so I'll do a huge scrub-a-dub then.

So thats about it for the past few days, but I have many exciting days ahead this week!

Also, my apartment is covered in paper chains and snowflakes.