I'm santa!

So I just finished being santa. I love christmas. Everything is set for my children to have a magical day tomorrow. The house is clean, the presents are wrapt and I finished all of my baking (I made shortbread, choc chip cookies, coconut ice and white chocolate bark for presents for my uncles, aunties and cousins)

We had a roast dinner tonight and then went and looked at christmas lights, the kids were very cute in how overly excited they got every time we found a new house that was lit up.

I went overboard as usual, they have so many presents that it will take them all day to unwrap LOL. Oh well, kids are there to be spoilt especially at Christmas time.

We had our work Christmas party on Friday night. In the true style of my mother (who also happens to be my boss) we didn't have a picnic or go out for dinner and drinks, we hired a bus and went on a pub crawl. Now don't get me wrong, we all had a heap of fun and I did enjoy myself but sometimes it is hard to reconcile that I came from her. She was in her element surrounded by drunk people in pubs, she is so social and I am so shy. She drinks and smokes and gambles and I do none of the above (I do drink but only very occasionally when there is a specific event being celebrated eg a wedding or xmas party) Not only do I not partake in any of the above but I have little respect for people who do - which does wonders for my relationship with my mother NOT.

On the GAMSAT front, I got my medprep notes so I ditched the textbook I was working from and have started to work from these notes instead. I am halfway through the physics component already and I am suprised at how easily it is all coming back. I attempted an essay but It was a peice of shit and now I am totally fretting about this section. On the poem front, I now remember why I hated the poetry section in the HSC. It is like a second language to me. I can do classical writting and shakesphere but in poems people are intentioally trying to be cryptic and I just dont get it most of the time. I can read the notes on the poem and say "oh I see how that works and what that means" but send me in blind and I have no Fn idea.