all i want for christmas...

IS YOUUU.

you should probably listen to this right now.

but for reals,

i am craving christmas like no one's business.

it might be due to the fact that:

-i am far from starting my fall semester, but am already looking forward to coming home.

-knowing that christmas means less than six months left.

-i have a weird love for snow.

-shopping for other people and giving them awesome gifts is one of my all-time favorite things.

-i will hopefully have left idaho for the last time when christmas rolls around.

-my whole family will be together for christmas this year, as opposed to last year when it was just my parents and i and christmas lasted a whole 3 minutes. 

-christmas music plays constantly in my house and my whole family sings along while dancing like the crazy fools we are.

i could probably go on forever. winter is my favorite season, so christmas is obviously my favorite holiday. 

stop judging me for listening to christmas music in the middle of june.

randomness/some ranting:

-waiting patiently for a very special package coming to me all the way from belgium is horrendously awful. i've been stalking my poor mailman.

-we recently got one of those blood pressure taker things.  i decided i would try it out for kicks and giggles. this is what popped up on the screen:

my brother is a lifeguard so he had to take classes all about cpr and blood pressures and things. so when he saw this he freaked out. "ANNE! you are dead! oh my gosh. don't get up. you're going to faint!!" we took it a few more times and it was even lower the other times. apparently i have the blood pressure of a half-dead person.

-i recently read the book the fault in our stars recently, and cried the entire way through. i highly recommend it.

-i have had an awesome summer with my brother home. we go on sonic runs together, watch at least one redbox a week, hang out and talk together, etc. the only downside is the constant battle for the amazing parking spot outside of our house. the deal is whoever gets there first gets to use it. this is a problem when we get home at the exact same time some days.

the face-off of lyle and bernard.

we stayed like this for at least a half hour. i was in the beloved spot, but i was parked backwards so i could not stay. i finally had to give in and move because i really had to pee.

-i have to write a paper for one of my classes on a crisis that my family went through and how we dealt with it and how it brought us closer and such. problem is, my family has never been through a crisis and i have nothing to write on. my family is too stable. first world problems.

-i went to the dark side, guys. the dark side of phones that is. siri and i are going to be great friends.