Starting to hear Jingle Bells

Hey Everyone! New news! So I got that call back, and I now have a job at West County Animal Hospital!! I am so excited to start! My boss told me to wear something I wouldn't mind getting blood or other-stuff-that-might-stain on. Little does she know my Mom was an RAHT (view last post to find the meaning) so I have many smocks to wear :) On Friday I went to see the new art gallery and library in town. It is the second largest art gallery in all of Alberta, Canada! It sort of smelled like paint :P but it was really neat! One of the displays there was a short clip that ran in a loop of a kitten trying to hang from a tree branch without falling off. The artist took the clip sideways though so it looked like the cat was being blown off the branch (NOTE: The kitten was not harmed in the making of the piece).

           Today we went out a cut down a tree to put in our living room as a Christmas Tree! It is a beautiful pine tree. It is very hard to find "wild" trees that look nice in the area that I live in. We have a lot of swamp spruce which are very spindly! So tomorrow we will put on some Christmas music and sing and decorate our tree :) One tradition that we have is we always listen to "Country Heat Christmas" as our music while we decorate! This way we can all sing the songs together because they are burned in our minds :P Another tradition that we do is we always have a tall glass of mimosa (champagne and orange juice) on Christmas morning. It cleans out the guckiness and majorly lessens bad breath :) One more thing, we do not use stockings. They are too small and it is hard to put things in them. We have, what we call, Santa Sacks. They are about double the width of a stocking and the top opens wide so it is easy to put things in and take them out! What are some of your Christmas traditions?