today i planned on seeing harry potter 2 with my sister, but due to the insane amount of traffic near the mall, it took us almost an hour to get to roosevelt raceway movie theater. it was 2:50 p.m. before we were finally at the theater. too bad the movie started at 2:30 p.m.! anyway, i told jessica that we were going to see lord of the rings: the two towers. it was really good. i’m glad i got to see the 3 hour movie for $5.75. yay for matinee prices. after the movie, i had to drive through all the last minute shopper traffic. it’s insane. i don’t want to go to garden city again until maybe a week after christmas. maybe even longer because there are always those after-christmas sales. ahh. i just spent about 2 hours wrapping gifts. it was much fun. i put in my john mayer concert cds and became a wrapping machine. i still have one more gift to wrap, but it’ll be easy. my mom thinks she can make me wrap her huge gift for her sister. she’ll have to pay me a lot! haha. anyway, i just wanted to say merry christmas to everyone in advance. oh yeah, happy birthday dad! (his birthday is on christmas eve).

oh yeah, grace and i have been working very hard to prepare for our spring break in florida. she looked for the cheapest place to stay at, and i found the cheapest van rental. we added everything up last night at like 4 am and calculated how much each person has to pay. i think we should open a travel agency for students. haha. grace and i decided that we will not ride middle seat throughout the entire road trip because of our efforts. ok happy holidays!