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so far this christmas break

1. my baba, who is 88, was giving my littlest sister tips on her dance dance revolution technique. "taylor, you stand too far forward your back foot doesn't reach" and "taylor, can't you look down when you play? look where you stand that's why you get all the boos."

2. i ate meat. i still don't think i could go to a restaurant and order a steak or anything like that, but it was christmas dinner and i had a little bit of turkey. it was delicious, that's a fact. but i don't think it's going to be a common theme in my life. i'm happy being a vegetarian. am i still a vegetarian? well, i don't know if i still want to lay claim to that title. it's either all or none, there's no middle ground. but all of a sudden after dinner last night it clicked again and i'm feeling good about the meat-free lifestyle. we'll see. i'm not making any rules or laying down any guidelines. i'm just gonna see how i feel.

3. victoria is home. i can't really explain how hard this has hit me over the past ten days. i guess homesickness is the appropriate phrase for how i've felt. last christmas or even at the end of this summer i would have said i was "going back to school" because that's all victoria meant. but in a week i'm going back to victoria. i'm going back home.

4. i vowed not to go skiing. snowboarding. and yet i've agreed to two days of it. gaby and i are going to attack the slopes in a beginner snowboarding class tomorrow, unless i can get out of it somehow. on saturday we're all trekking out to big white for a day of "fun." pete's super stoked on it and so is my little sister and i don't know why i agreed but if i play my cards right i can sneak away to the lodge and drink coffee all afternoon, make it out for one last run and pretend i've been ripping it up all day.

5. jeffrey. umm. best ever.