christmas-y day

yesterday was just like a vancouver/victoria december day (except a LOT warmer). it actually started to feel like christmas. i really like the nice hot christmases i've had here the past 2 years but i definately doesn't really feel like christmas. yesterday i woke up to gray skies and drizzle. it didn't really clear up at all in the morning so i decided not to do the errands i needed to do and get all wet. instead i found my favorite christmas cd and put it on then lit all my vanilla candles and oil burner and turned the christmas tree lights on. i started doing all the christmas stuff i needed to do (digging though my box of recycled wrapping paper and ribbons to wrap the one gift we've bought already, making christmas cards....). when i got to work the kids were all practicing their songs for their end of year sing (it includes a few christmas songs) so it still felt really christmas-y. that ended when we sat down for lunch though and the boy next to me was getting more of his muffin on the floor than in his mouth and then just turned and let a huge gob of spit drop down to the floor. at that point i got him the dustpan and brush and a rag for the spit and told him to start cleaning. of course he decided to put on a great little show of "sweeping" the muffin crumbs all over the place and the kids at his table thought this was hilarious (as soon as he actually finished sweeping the mess up he was moved to a table far away from his friends with another staff person at it).
the day ended pretty good though. on our way to serving at a street soup kitchen there was a big rumble of thunder and the rain started immediately after. we managed to serve about 6 people plus ourselves before it started POURING. me and another girl crouched down under the serving table to eat our wet meals before we all decided to just hide in the van. the rain didn't ease up so we decided to pack up our now very wet food (the friut salad and asapagas were now swimming in bowls of water) and we got very wet in the process. another storm passed through a couple hours later and we sat on the back step watching the lightning and listening to the thunder and rain. the day started as a drizzly gray vancouver december day and ended as an australian december day.