Life is just too damn fast lately, and I don't have the luxury of my job to take an hour and write what has been occurring.

So I left off with the hockey game. The first one I have ever been to, and we were playing our rival team! It was so exciting, and the night went amazing, we didn't snipe at eachother or anything. Chris' family has been season ticket holders for a long time, and so in an attempt to escape paying the obsence parking each time, they had found a side street to park on for free. So Chris parked his Daytona there, and it being a cold night, we booked it to the subway to run to the game. He told me that they usually come out during 2nd and 3rd period to move the car forward a bit, or else he could get ticketed for being there longer than a certain amount of time. So I run out with him, (we left our jackets in the car, not wanting to bring them into the game) and I am running with my head down as it is like -25 degrees Celsius out WIHOUT windchill and all of sudden I stop and see him staring at something and he's like "where's my car" and I think he's joking because well, he jokes a lot about things like that lol. Only...I finally catch up to him...and it really is gone. And so the night begins...we run back to the hockey game to find security, and they can't do anything, but they recommend the building next door's security, so we run to that (about 5 minutes away) and we are NUMB and we get there and no one is freaking there...finally a guy shows up and they say THEY can't do anything either, so we have to phone the City Police. In the meantime, Chris has phoned his Dad who is at curling, and he says he will come in and get us. We are on the phone with the police for a long time, and we don't get much out of them either. And so we run back to the arena and wait for his dad, and meanwhile, Chris runs out to double check his suspicions that maybe he just parked it in a different spot than he thought (your mind gets paranoid after awhile). He runs back to get me since I am so cold and waiting inside, and he tells me "Dad found it" and oh my god I am so relieved...so we run back there and I hop in the car with his dad and it was stolen, and parked 2 blocks north of where it originally was parked with us. We think nothing is wrong until Chris looks inside and sees that the ignition is ripped out, all his CD's are gone, and his deck is stolen. So yay...what a night. We phone the police back and they say it will take awhile for a patrol car to come out as there was a robbery somewhere else, so we say we'll just leave it there 'til tomorrow morning and yeah..Chris's dad drives me home and I tell them thanks. Lol. Wow. What an adrenaline-rushing night. The game was awesome and I feel bad that Chris felt so bad that he ruined it or whatever he thought. I still had an awesome time.

So that Friday night Mom & Dad get home and settle in and the next day is the funeral...we went to that and saw all the family, and the best part was the speech by Uncle Francis about all of them when they were younger. We pick up Hunter that night and he was pretty nuts, feeling abandoned and all.

Since then, a lot has happened. I was invited to come skiing with Chris and his family during the break (Dec. 26-27) and god did I want to go. I asked my mom like a month in advance, and day after day, week after week, I couldn't get a straight answer. Then finally I got some sort of answer and it was not good, what my dad had said about what he thought (he was out of town for awhile). He didn't think I needed to go. After some tears and yelling and finally rationalization...I asked Dad one night while mom was there and he said a bunch of stuff how he trusted mom's judgement, and if she was stupid enought to marry him then she must know something, and blah blah blah, and then I started crying once he left lol and mom gave me a big hug and asked me why the heck I was crying but...finally. I could go. So Christmas came, and I got a Digital Camera! YAY. I was so not expecting it, but it is an amazing Canon A530 and I love it. I also got a shirt, lots of gift cards (what I wanted as I am poor), another musical wind-up thing even though I guess Grandma says she is no longer sending Mom money to buy presents for us, and no more cards either. Man, what is wrong with that side of the family. I got a lot of things this year, spoiled as usual, a necklace and earring set from Auntie Laurel and Uncle Gordon. Satsuma Body Butter, earrings, "Snow Patrol" CD...a lot of really nice things. Then the day after that I had to get up at 3.00 in the morning to get ready for skiing. I was frantically shoving stuff in my bag when Chris showed up, and finally we go out there and of course the other girlfriends slept over (I wasn't allowed to) so they are all there and I feel kind of out of place as I have not seen them in awhile, the family. But we get in the Exhbidition and off we go. We get there, do the ski rentals (Chris' dad pays!) and then drive right to the mountain. Man I love skiing, I missed it lots. Even though all the boys were these amazing snowboarders and whatnot, I am probably an intermediate skiier. Actually, I snowblade (they are shorter skiis) and so does Chris so it's good. The first day, I ski with Meggy & Chris and then Meggy leaves and it is just Me and Chris so that's okay. We have lunch in the chalet, his mom brought a feast to eat. We go skiing some more and then by about 4.00 we leave and go to the Inn to stay overnight. Matt and Jen, Courtney & Dave end up staying in one room, while the parents, Chris, me and Meggy stay in the other. I stay upstairs with Meggy and Chris sleeps downstairs on the fold-out couch while his parents are in the bedroom. I get a really good sleep, surprisingly. There was kind of an episode that night between us though, and it wasn't so nice. We were all sitting in the living room watching the first Rocky (never seen any of them) and Chris felt that I was avoiding him all night (I felt he was avoiding me) and I was trying to make sure it wasn't too much me and him, me and him, with his family. So I sit down on the couch finally with him and he's cranky and then he says something really mean. He says "Why did I even take you on this trip" and after that I don't even look at him or say anything and god I almost started crying and then he feels so horrible because he doesn't mean it but still, he said it so he has to deal with the aftereffects. He is beating himself up so bad that I just can't take it anymore and I try to cheer him up (twisted) but he won't have any of it and god I am so frustrated but by the end of the movie we are okay I think. We also went swimming before supper (pizza) and the movie and that was alright. The next morning we get up early and have brunch and then we go to the hill once more. Today is the day that in the morning, we decided all the girls would stick together & the boys can go off and do their tricks on the black diamonds and whatnot. So it's alot of fun, Jen is just learning snowboarding and Courtney hasn't skiied in awhile so we go on the green runs and that is just fine by me, as I like to feel in control. We go to the chalet a little bit later and end up staying there until lunch, as the girls get on the topic of sex (eek) and I find out a lot of stuff that maybe was better I didn't know about. Basically, Courtney sure does like her kinky sex toys lol and what HASN'T she tried yet? Jen took Matt's virginity, and they are all shocked that I haven't done it with Chris yet (hello...we've been dating 9 months). Everyone of course already has done it, Meggy included. So Courtney is giving Jen all these tips and oh wow...I am trying to keep in this so they don't think I am this immature little girl but yeah. Lol. So we eat lunch with the family again, and we kind of ski as a group for awhile and then me and Chris end up alone again and we go on some blue runs and then somehow he ends up tricking me onto a black run and I didn't even know (there weren't any moguls) lol But I found it fun.

At the end of the day we meet up again (me and Chris mishearing the time and being a little late, oops) and we start the long haul home. Chris halfway through starts feeling not-so-good poor thing and lays his head in my lap in attempt not to throw up everywhere. It was a really nice feeling, like he was dependent on me to take care of him, so I would brush the hair off his forehead and just hold him steady while he kind of slept. As soon as we got him he got out the vehicle and puked his guts out. I went inside and phoned my mom and opened my stocking from Mrs. Tompkins and got a sweet Abercrombie & Fitch shirt (never owned anything from there), sockies, Ferrero Roche's and soap. So sweet...and we sit there and at the end my mom FINALLY comes and I thank them and give her a hug and boy do I feel it is inadequate for everything they did for me, taking me and phoning and my mom and talking to her and convincing them and whatnot.

So that was the trip...it was a lot of fun and I can't believe I actually got to go.

TO BE CONTINUED