Christmas is Coming!!

This is probably going to be my last post of 2013....because I am headed back to Chicagoland tomorrow for TWO WHOLE WEEKS!!!!!!! (cue happy dance)

The past couple weeks I've been hanging out, Christmas shopping, and getting more and more excited to have an extended trip back home. About 2 weeks ago I went to my first Kappa Kappa Gamma alum event which was the East Bay Alum Association Christmas party. We gathered at this swanky house in the hills above Oakland. Super fancy pants. It was great to meet other sisters out here of all ages and backgrounds. I definitely plan to become involved with a local chapter, I met the PDC (Province Director of Chapters) and she was very excited that I was interested in being an adviser. Yay for being social!

The oldest woman in the front row was a hoot, I could have talked with her the entire night.

I've loved receiving all the happy Christmas cards and small festive packages from family and friends over the past couple of weeks. One of my favorites and most intimidating/fun to open was a gift from my best friend, Kristen. She had made a homemade body scrub and sent me a small plastic container of some as a nice little surprise! Trouble is that the container got a crack and a very small amount of the scrub leaked out and soaked through all the papers and wrappings. As you look at this sequence of pictures I took while opening it, not knowing what was underneath, try to imagine the terror/joy upon finding each layer.

First: I found this strange bag stuffed into my small mail box

Next: A strange gloopy package. The tape had lost its stick and is weirdly soupy. The entire package is soaked through with grease. I also discovered this was from Kristen, and therefore anything could be inside. 

I peel through the paper and gloopy tape to find body scrub! And a weirdly soupy card with ink that has seen better days haha

And here is the culprit! That small amount leaked out and left me with a mostly solid mass of scrub and one very oily package. But never fear, with a little more liquids it is good as new! 

While they have seen better days, the directions survived.

This is actually a really good scrub. I used it the next morning in the shower and was left with nice and soft but not weirdly oily or over exfoliated skin. Thanks Krisio!

Well I am going to bed, I've got a hot date with a cabbie at 4am tomorrow! Gotta make that early flight! I'll be back in Chicago for two weeks so let me know if you want to see me. My first week is already booked solid, so seriously talk to me if you're interested in week 2. It's like people like me or something, they want to see me! I'm okay with it, I love feeling loved :)

Speaking of feeling loved, check out my beautiful fridge with all the Christmas cards. Thanks everyone! Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!