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I can't believe it's January! Really. Really, really.

I am in total awe of the awesomeness of my life right now. I spent  almost every day of the holiday watching movies with my family (drama free!), nibbling on delicious chocolates and drinking tea. So lucky! It was honestly so decadent.

And I was gifted so much great stuff! Highlights to follow:

• Mighty leaf variety pack =  so much good tea! Also, wonderful loose leaf tea from Nectar in Ottawa (rooibos chai & indian spiced chai) - I have great friends and great tea.
• Books: Play it as it Lays - Joan Didion; Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris; Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith; along with lots of gift certificates which I will spend on lots of luxury cookbooks, etc.
• New eyeglasses! They are ridiculous and I love them.
• A diamond engagement ring. Whaaaa?!

The best part, of course, was Ryan proposed in front of the bright, bright Christmas tree in Waterloo park. Surprise! Skip this part if you're not interested in the gory and ridiculous details :) We spent the whole day together  Christmas shopping and had a long, relaxing breakfast at 1842. Later he decided we should have a nice dinner out at Marbles (my favourite place to eat) and we headed to the park with hot chocolates to see the Christmas lights in action. He was so nervous that he could barely say the words - I think he mumbled something about wanting to eat breakfast with me for the rest of his life (CUTE!)  and I cried and danced around and, sort of almost didn't believe him! I kept repeating, "Are you serious? For real? Is this real?" It was dizzying. I AM GETTING MARRIED. I am all sickeningly domestic lately, dreaming about babies and reading cookbooks and looking for things for our apartment. It kind of makes me barf, but I'm happy to finally be in a good place in my life  which hopefully cancels out all of the guilt about being a potentially yuppy-ish pod person!

Weirdest of all: I am also thisclose to getting straight A's for the term, which is perhaps the most surreal of all! I can't stop feeling like a big fake all of the time when it comes to academia, yet somehow things just keep working out. This is also totally dizzying. But doesn't stop the funny feeling in the pit of my stomach when I think about starting classes again. It took a whole two weeks to recover and I feel NOT READY to be doing this all over again! Four more months is quickly becoming my mantra.

I hope everyone had the most beautiful Christmas! I got lucky and had the most beautiful year of my life. Eep. How you gonna top that 2009?!