"If you left it up to me, every day would be a holiday from real."

I'm a happy camper this evening. I took my last final this morning (a nasty one, too. My journalism professor rather enjoys writing tricky multiple-choice questions.) and am officially on vacation for the holiday season!

I celebrated the end of the fall semester with my sister after our French/Journalism finals at the Einstein's in the Union. She ate chicken noodle soup, I a toasted asiago-cheese bagel with strawberry cream cheese (Meg Ryan from When Harry Met Sally much?) and we both drank chocolate milk. It was a lovely send-off to my plan of eating healthy over the break--and hopefully a long while after that, but we'll see. :)

For the past few days, I have been contemplating what to do over this long holiday and now that it is finally upon me, I find myself sort of just sitting around and reveling in my freedom. :) Today after coming home, I played a few rounds of Robot Unicorn Attack on Facebook (don't laugh. Well okay, I suppose you can, but only a little!). I am usually not a big fan of Facebook applications, but this one is appealing to me for some reason. After that, I finished watching Across the Universe with my sister and then decided to try to get back into the swing of writing. For some reason unbeknownst to me, it has been difficult to write anything creatively over the past few months. Buckling down to write something from my imagination has been close to impossible, simply because there wasn't enough time or because I was too burned out to concentrate. Also my new-used laptop has been acting up all semester long. As of today, it won't restart; I think he's finally kicked the bucket (only adding one more bullet to the list of 'why Molly should buy a Macbook in the spring').

But anyway, I sat down to write and surprisingly, the words came with ease. Though, they only flowed for around two paragraphs, I am thoroughly satisfied with them, thus making this first day of vacation an immense success. I am excited to have no scholastic responsibility looming about for a good few weeks. Hopefully, I'll be able to make some headway on this brand new idea that's been lolling around in my brain for a few weeks. There are other things I want to do in addition to writing my little heart out. I want to start scrapbooking all my pictures, read some new books, and watch movies. :) My sister and I watched the Time Traveler's Wife (which I will probably write a personal review about later) last night and then Across the Universe today which I have already seen. I borrowed Meet Joe Black from the library, which is one of my favorite movies of all time. I'm sort of on a sappy movie kick, so if you have any good tear-jerker suggestions, let me know! :)

What I want to do more than all of the above over this Christmas break is to catch up with mis amigos (as). I feel like ever since I started school I fell off of everyone's planets. I have so much catching up to do with everyone and now I have plenty of time to do so. One of my very best friends is coming home from Mexico next week and I am stoked to see her! 

I hope to post every week or so about what I've been up to lately during this most fantastic stretch of break.  I want to use this time to catch up all the things I've been missing like sleep, reading my Bible, talking/hanging out with friends, writing, and everything else under the sun. Thanks for reading! :)

But if you left it up to me
Everyday would be
A holiday from real
We'd waste our weeks
Beneath the sun
We'd fry our brains
And say it's so much fun out here
But when it's all over
I'll come back for another year

~Jack's Mannequin--Holiday From Real