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Lily, you will have to tell us how your boot camp goes and I wish you luck in it, because from what I hear, it is vigorous.

What kind of traditions for Christmas (if you celebrate it) does your families have? Also, since we haven't had a lot of Harry Potter talk in here for a while, what do you think Christmas would be like in the Potter family if Harry hadn't lost his parents?

I think that Harry's house would be decorated with a lot of Christmas-y things and Harry would get a lot of presents from his parents!

Christmas pukes on my house... It's everywhere. gonk We have four Christmas trees! One really big one, a two foot one in each room and then there are the wall trees. We have more nativity sets then church, more stockings then family members, and don't get me started on the collect of Santa dolls. ninja I do like the food tough. mrgreen Everyone comes over on Christmas eve in my family. Sixteen people. We have a small house. Kids get sent to the basement, adults get the up stairs. I am fine with that because we get the pool table and the air hockey table, not to mention a huge tv, it's old though and all of our gaming systems. It's funny but any other time of the year, you can't get into the basement easily, there is one clear area. We have to clean it just to have space for the family. xd

As for Harry's Christmas, totally. He'd be getting wizarding gets left and right, in the book it seems like that kid was adored even before he-who-must-not-be-named made him the boy who lived.

And Grey you are lucky make sure to your Grandma a big hug. I miss mine.

biggrin I give older people a break, even though they can get on your nerves at times. The world changes a lot in a life time. Sometimes people don't want to change or don't like the changes that do happen, but life is like a river that has to expand and get much rougher as we go in order to make the way smooth for those to come. Eventually there is no more work we can do in our lives and our drop that is part of the river joins with a clam ocean. Sometimes that greatest thing we can do is let them know we appreciate their work. Even if we don't always agree.

As for the desserts I know what you mean. My Grandmother died when I was five and I still remember her cooking. mrgreen

Haha that's funny.

Yeah, I understand what you mean Katie. I love my Grandparents and I really don't ever want to see the day when they're not around. Because really, it's going to be extremely horrible.
That's just my Moms parents. I only met my Dad's Dad {his Mom died before I was born} this summer because him and my Dad hadn't spoken in about 15 years. We ended up getting a phone call in about May from my Dad's uncle saying that his Dad was in really bad shape in the hospital and he may not make it. I guess what happened was he had gone in the hospital for a gaul {sp??} bladder and they ended up cutting part of his intestines out 'by mistake' and so he's been in the hospital ever since then.
So my Dad went to visit him and meet his new step mom {he re-married after my now dead Grandma died} who is from China! And she turned out to be one of the nicest women, my Dad and anyone from our family has ever met. So that day he went to the hospital, his Dad was still unconcious but he woke up when my Dad came! And supposedly everytime that we've visited him he gets better for about a week but then gets sick again.
It's still hard for me to actually call him my Grandpa, I don't know why, I think it's just weird because I've never known him my whole life. But we've found out now that he was a tailgunner in World War 2 and had a bunch of crashes and at one point was a POW and when they were interrogating him at some points they'd hold a gun in his mouth until he agreed to say anything.

Okay.. Sorry for that whole story haha, I kind of got carried away there razz

Okay, so there is this movie crew in town and they are obviously shooting a movie. They have been here for like a month and today they were at my school. One my best friends was lucky enough to get to school early and was asked to be an extra while they were shooting in front of the school. And my friend, Alyx, found out that these movie guys (who are from California) don't like Kansas weather (le gasp, I am from Kansas XD). So, yesterday it was seriously like 60 degrees and today it was snowing and everything was icy and its really cold! One of the movie guys was like "What next, a tornado????!?!?!?!?" and my friend was like "Probably". Haha I don't know if you guys think that was funny, but I sure did. I dunno maybe you have to be from Kansas to understand what it is like.

Haha one of the sayings here are "You know your from Kansas when you switch from AC to heater and back again all in one day". Its crazy. Today it is still kinda cold but it is a lot warmer than it was yesterday.

I hope you pass your class. We are getting near our finals. They are next week but they will be pretty easy because our teachers don't really focus on mid-terms, they hit us hard at the end of the year, specially for us seniors!

I am doing Okay, and how are you Katie?

Oh wow, I thought Kansas was one of the only states that had that kind of crazy weather. It happened it again in the last few days. Yesterday, it was 55 degrees and about that at 6 o'clock this morning. Then at 6:15, my mom went back outside and found that the temperature had dropped drastically and it was also very windy!


Okay, so I might not be as active in the next few days because I am probably going to be spending a lot of time trying to convince my best friend to come back home. She moved in with a guy that she has known for 4 months and that she has been dating for a week. Her parents really really don't want her there and neither does my other friend and I. I mean, I think maybe only her mom has ever met this guy, so we really don't know him at all and it just scares us. So, I will be trying to convince her that if she doesn't want to live at home, that I have a spare bedroom she can occupy for a much lower price that what she is paying now. Just thought I would let you guys know.