PA: Part I

It's been nearly a week since I've come home for Christmas vacation. I'll be here in Western PA until January 4th, and I'm trying to stay distracted enough to forget about the fact that I'm not working on my thesis and really need to be working on my thesis. Here's what I've been doing in the meantime:

• Lots of holiday baking and cooking. Here's some of the stuff that I've made so far: Cran-Apple Crisp, Cinnamon Pie, awesome Chicken and Dumplings, Asian Cabbage Salad, and a Butternut Squash soup that everyone hated for some reason (don't know why...it was delicious). It's not even time for the hardcore Christmas stuff yet. My Pancetta-Chestnut Stuffing should be out of this world.
• Attending the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children's holiday program. My sister used to be a student there, so it was really fun for her to see all of her old teachers.
• Christmas shopping! This includes buying clothes for me, and buying fancy purses for my mom in exchange for argyle sweaters she no longer wants to wear. I really want argyle to go out of style so I can wear it and feel like a nerd instead of an acapella groupie. Darn you, Rachel Berry.

Yeah...I said it.

• Watching lots of mindless TV. That's the one thing I like about vacations from school. I can watch "Ugly Betty," "Gilmore Girls," and "The O.C." on the real channels our TV gets and not have to think about the fact that I should be doing homework instead.

I've probably been doing other things as well, but they're not really bullet-point worthy yet. As I said, this is only Part I of my Pennsylvania adventure. We'll see what happens with the rest of this break. Happy Last 5 Shopping Days before Christmas!