Merry Chreesmahs!

Yes, today was that one day that we are excited for all the other 364 days of the year haha :P And to be honest, this was probably the first year where I didn't feel in the least bit "Scrooge-y" at all!
But now that Christmas is over, NO MORE SECRET KEEPING!!! Haha my big brother and I have been planning on buying our parents cruise ship tickets since October, and I can't believe out of all 10 of us kids, we made it this far without letting it slip! Success! Although my parents didn't believe us at first, at all (they thought we were playing a mean joke on them. Thanks.), and then it hit them that we were actually being serious and now we're just waiting for the reality to set in. Goodness, my parents.
One thing I do love about Christmas though, and birthdays, is getting those someones presents! Getting to roam through stores and the mall and random shops until you find something that is so beyond perfect, wrapping it, and then seeing their face when they open it. I love that feeling almost more than bacon... and that's a lot.

On a completely different note, and on something I wouldn't normally write about, ever, I just wanted to voice/think out loud about something. My cousin and I were talking tonight about how being in college for over a year has really changed our mindsets on a lot of things and one of the huge things for her was virginity. She said that out of her group of friends at school, she was the only one who hadn't lost it yet. Maybe it's from being at MC or maybe just being close to people who have the same viewpoints as I do, but I've never viewed that as something I was ready and/or willing to give away if and when all my friends started to. In my opinion, there's only one occasion you should give that away, and it's on your wedding night! God gave it to us to give to one person under the law of marriage, not in a dorm room, not with someone you'll never see again, and not to just do it. I was struggling to see it like she did; as something to give up; to get out of the way, strictly because you're in college and it's what everybody's doing and all your friends have been doing it or have recently done it.
No thanks, I'm holding onto that one for a loooooong time.
Anyway, a little out of the norm of something for me to write about, but I felt I should.