christmas at home..

i'm feeling a little bit homesick. and i meant to post a while back about christmas at home, but didn't get around to it because everyone was visiting, et cetera... so i'll just do it now.. on valentine's day... and backdate the entry so it falls into line as it should. and by "entry" i really mean put up pictures for you all to look at and enjoy.

anyway. i had such a good time going home for christmas. i'm glad i got to- i wanted to see everyone. even when i went up to northampton, i saw everyone at college that i really wanted to, even if it was just for a quick conversation in some cases. and they made fun of the *tiny* accent that i picked up, but then was able to lose after a week at home.

anyway, pictures, commence!

here's my favorite pretty girl. she's thooooo pwweettttyyy... specially with her christmas bow and everything. aw, rabaila! you can even see booger and de udda, de udda won in the background being flufftastic.


i got to bring res and chace home to my family... i love them something crazy.


tacky christmas party was class as well! our house gets so full of randomers... and it's such a nice mix of my friends, my sea stars' friends, my parents friends... i like that we all can get along together and enjoy the company of all respectively. this year, it was more me M.C. our tacky gift exchange than dad, too... it was a blast. good craic, as we say... =D
here's a few 'round the room shots:



look how cute mom and daddy are :)



mom putting my cousin mandy's dance shoes on... what a pretty picture:


mandy's brothers, et al:


and finally, mr. moofie, the christmas poo...

nothing like a sleepy puppy to finish an entry.

slán,
chris

p.s. yay, family. :)

the 12 pubs of christmas...

at the first pub of christmas, my true love gave to me....
a very tasty brewski...
at the second pub of christmas my true love gave to me...
two shots of whiskey
and a very tasty brewski...


just kidding. not *quite* that intense.. at least not until the seventh or eighth pub.

in any case, i promised an update about this adventure and here are some of the pictures. i actually quite enjoyed it and i certainly learned a lot.
about limits.
and beer.
and shots.
and mixing the two.

here's a group shot outside of the second pub which we graced: annie mac's. (first was cissie young's, of course)


further down barrick street, here is a group of us who are capable of posing:


here's a cute old couple behind one of the bars. they made us double shots by accident because she wasn't sure how to make a baby guinness.. no complaints from any of us.


RIGHT, so, the theme of the night was "holy dress..." i was "holy-er than thou." but here's a nun. and an angel.


at some point during the night the angels struck with glitter.... and here you can see my costume as well.


this is what she looked like after that mad guerilla glitter strike.


hanging with the cripples. poor kid broke his arms at the eng ball... he threw up one leg dancing, and promptly forgot that one was in the air, and threw up the other one, falling backwards to land on his wrists.... eoin. classic.


some shepherds with their sheep, leem og.


willie, our captain, leaning towards the beer while making his angry lion face.


so this is what i've deemed appropriate. :) i'm going to miss all the american girls like crazy this upcoming semester, but i think the canoe club will help keep me busy... :-D

slainte!


love you.
chris