the girl is crazy!

In a totally amazing, astounding, lovable, mesmerizing way.  I just (finally) saw the Lady Gaga – Bad Romance video and I’m madly in love with her.  She’s just … immeasurably avant garde, tremendously talented and ridiculously beautiful.

So, I’m happy if she wants to call me up for some Romance, be it bad or good!

In other news, there isn’t much news.  I’m still up in the air about my trip to Vegas for the weekend of the 5th – MOSTLY because I forgot that it’s Super Bowl Sunday (because *that’s* totally on my radar.  Not.  Is Brett going to be there?  No?  Well, alright then.) and the hotels are booked like crazy.  If I make it there, it’ll probably be for the dinner on Saturday, some partying that night, then a flight back on Sunday.  Unless I can get some hiking of the Grand Canyon done, in which case, awesome.  I’d like to do that.  But I truly doubt it’ll happen this time.

I was going through my photos from Christmas (remember when I said this would eventually be a photoblog?  I’m working on that!), and found a hilarious picture I didn’t realize I’d taken.

The deal on the Thomas Family Christmas is this: We have an order. Everything goes in this order.  I don’t care if it’s ten of us or two of us, the order doesn’t fail.

1. We wake up.  I generally find this handy to do *every* day, but especially on Christmas.
2. We get coffee. God knows I refuse to be cheerful, even on christmas, without coffee.
3. We open stockings. Yes, we filled each other’s last night. Yes, we know what’s in everyone else’s, but that’s the FUN of it!  I love wrapping odd-shaped things so my dad can’t guess what it is!
4. (sorry, did I ruin Christmas for you? Yes, it’s true. Santa does not fill stockings around here.)
5. We go in a round-robin style, each person opening an item, then the next person.  No tearing into gifts at our house – it lasts longer and is more appreciated!
6. We take pictures!  Okay, *I* take pictures, and half of them (as you might figure) are of me.  Why? Because I can.

One of my favourite pictures from this Christmas, I just discovered.  My cousin Anne photobombed me, and I wanted to share it because it’s hysterical:

Here’s the picture I took:

Cute, right? A little disheveled, since I didn’t do anything with leftover makeup from the night before, and I’m positive I didn’t even bother to brush my hair.

But the highlight is Anne’s photobomb:

I love that kid.  She’s hysterical.

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