'Tis the Season

To be Jolly fa la la la la, la la la la. At least that's how we're supposed to feel right? I've become awfully aware to how people get all into the Christmas spirit and perhaps it's because of all these Christmas cd's (Justin Bieber's, Michael Buble...) being promoted all over, the commercials talking about getting your Christmas shopping done, and the Christmas specials on TV (wow, I think I watch too much TV). Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against Christmas, in fact I love Christmas, it's just that I feel like I'm not being as spirited as others seem to be. I wonder if there's something wrong with me? Or maybe people are just going over the top with Christmas? But I think I know the reason why I can't get into the spirit of Christmas and I'm sure that every College student will agree with me on this one. I think I didn't get into the spirit because when Christmas time comes around, that also means finals. Yep, finals. I mean who can get into the holiday spirit while your stressing about passing and wondering how you're going to get all your studying done in time? Even if you try to get your Christmas cheer on before finals, it's kinda hard because the last weeks of the semester are usually filled with last minute assignments.
But now I'm done with my finals (when I got home I did what I like to call the "free dance" which mostly consisted in me dancing and chanting" I'm free, I'm done, no more school!") so now I can finally start to get into the Christmas spirit, and Justin Bieber is helping me with that. I love his new song "Under the mistletoe, so much that I'm even considering in buying the album (yup, I'm a belieber and I don't care what ya think!). The song is just so cute and he's adorable. Want to know what my sister told me today? It went something like this...

Sister: "Have you seen Justin Bieber's new video?"
Me: "Nope"
Sister: " Well there's a girl in the video and she got paid $30,000 to be in the video and she got to kiss Justin 25 times! I would've done it for free!"

Me too sis, me too. Some girls are just so lucky. Anyways, now I have Mariah Carey's song "All I want for Christmas" stuck in my head. No wonder Christmas songs are so popular, they're so catchy!

Now for my au pair news... I went last friday to Houston to apply for my visa and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they won't take forever. My next step is to pick a flight and I don't know what to do. Since flights are so expensive at this time of year, we decided to use air miles. The problem is, that my dad showed me an a flight option where I would travel the 27th to Montreal stay there for the night and leave around 7 pm to go straight to Paris (the reason why I would stop in Montreal is so after I'm done my au pairing I can spend a week or 2 in Montreal over the summer before coming back to Texas). But now my dad found another flight where I can just travel straight to Paris from Texas and it costs less air miles. Now I'm torn, I don't want my dad to use a lot of his air miles, but at the same time I really got excited about getting to go to my beautiful Montreal before I left to Paris, even if it was for just 12 hours.

Urgh, I need to decide soon! We need to pick the flight before we loose it. Decisions, decisions, I really don't like them. This year has really been my "Decision Year", and I'm terrible at taking decisions!