Make the Yuletide Gay

Merry Christmas everyone!

What a fun Christmas this year! I ate, drank and was merry. Last night was the real party at my parents place, every year we have a wild party on Christmas eve. My brain is still sitting in a bucket of wine, so I apologize if I seem slow in this entry.

We had a great turnout this year! The house was full to the brim with people. This year my husbands mom and her boyfriend came from Calgary which is new, it was their first Christmas Eve at the Welsh household. So glad we finally got them over. My brother and his wife also came from Calgary, like they do every year, and we had a blast together! The Karpetz Family came over, KT and Sandy have been over before but not the whole family. So that brought up the party factor. The rest of the family was there of course, all a merry time was had by all!

Since my family wasn't doing presents this year, there wasn't a big haul this year but I did make wedding albums for the parents and my Grandma Frannie. I think they were very happy with that. 

I also made Matt a photo album, but instead of wedding photos I gave him boudoir photos I had done a few weeks ago, I also gave him "Love coupons" and a gift certificate for Edmonton's Best Tattoo shop Capital Tattoo. Matt gave me a beautiful leather bracelet that wraps around the arm, really cool. He also gave me a gift certificate to Nightshade Corsets! I was really excited about that one cause I have been wanting a new corset and nightshade has some of the best in town. 

Today was pretty much a write off for me. Since I am "not supposed to drink" I took it "easy" but still wound up with a hangover. Really I was more tired than hungover. My brother Daley and I stayed up late - like 5 am kinda late, we kept that party rockin' till dawn. I definitely pay for drinking and staying up late because of the interferon, so my booze intake was about half of the usual. Usually I get so hammered that I have my face in the toilet by noon the next day. Not this year but I still found a way to wreck myself. When I finally went to bed, I slept on a futon that was pretty much folded in half with my parents cat Mittsy under my blanket. Perfect. 

Woke up by eleven for brunch with the family before my bro and his wife had to take off for her family celebration, and promptly got back into bed and slept till four. Then we had dinner which temporarily brought me back to life. By dessert though that triptofan or however you spell that, hit me, and I had to go lie down again! So yeah, that was home time. Well, that's Christmas for another year! 

Tomorrow is Boxing Day, and I of course am a good little consumer during sale time. So yes, I will be shopping! KT and I will be hitting up stores like Mars and Venus, I like accessories from that store, Sanctuary- Edmonton's Witchery and Goth General store, which over the years I have spent many dollars in, and a friends subculture store Redemption Boutique. I am quite sure I will find a few items for myself and perhaps the husband as well. I may decide to get the hell out of there if it's really bonkers, like I think it's gonna be....we will see.  I have been know to soldier through the crowds to get a good deal. 

HERE'S SOME PICS!!!!

 WEDDING ALBUMS!!!!! So I spent 4 hours putting together albums then a couple more making cards and making them look purdy. I felt like it was appropriate to give all the parents one and they waited long enough! So yeah, that was by far my most crafty christmas in years!

 The sweet ass bracelet my kick ass hubby got me! He's got incredible taste when it comes to picking me out accessories for me. This bracelet is special and unique. Just like me HEHEHEH

 NIGHTSHADE!!!!! So excited. I love corsets but I haven't bought one in a few years. I have my eye on a beautiful black under bust there. I dropped a few hints to Matt a while back, and reminded him again recently. He says he feels intimidated when he walks in there so he got me the GC so I could pick out what I want. Now that's a good guy.

MY CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO MYSELF (Or one of them) OMG OMG OMG my oils came early! KT and I figured they'd arrive after Christmas, but to our delight they arrived on the 23rd! This was a pretty large order, I got Midnight Mass 2011, which smells like traditional roman catholic incense burned at midnight mass, The Gorobble, smells like burnt marshmallows, yum, Yule 2011, which has red holly berry, mistletoe, juniper, frankincense and myrrh. I also got Diable en Boîte which means Jack in the box, which is a seriously spicy and intense fragrance, which just didn't smell right on me, but it smelled great on my man! So that one is for him. I also ordered another for Matt, John Barleycorn, with beer, blood and whisky, but he thought it smelled "girly" on him. So I kept John Barleycorn and gave him Diable en Boîte. BPAL OBSESSION! 

Good times this year, I enjoy celebrating with the finest. Next party is NYE at my cousin Francesca's wedding. I bought a very pretty dress for the evening I am excited to wear! You will of course see it later on in pics! Now I am going to cuddle with Salem the kitty and watch a Christmas movie with the hubs. I might even smoke a Christmas doobie too. Heheheh. MERRRRRRY CHRISTMAS! HOHOHO! <3

-E.

Festivus 2011

What an amazing Festivus.

So last night was Festivus Celebration at John and Jer's and we had a merry old time. As you can see I've got a cider and a cigarette (holding it for KT) and my friends KT and Charlene and The Christmas Cowboy are getting holiday wild with me while I pose strangely. As soon as we were walking up the path you could hear the buzz of a party, and the house was full of familiar faces and a couple new ones, warm with booze and holiday cheer. Very festive I must say. These people are my chosen family, and all of us together in one room is where I want to be the week before xmas day.

We did a Chinese gift exchange- don't ask me why it's chinese, but you get to pick a present and then the next person gets to pick one or steal yours. First I got a candle holder with a coven of dogs around it, and I loved it right away, and of course that was KT'S gift, but it got stolen from John! Then I got riot gear and a cap gun and I think Matt left these items all over the house before we left. There was a puker, won't say this poor fellows name on here as I doubt he'd appreciate it, I'll just call him Pukey Mgee, and Pukey Mgee was already three sheets when I arrived. He then grabbed my wine and proceeded to pour most of the bottle in his cup and smashed that shit back fast and ended up painting Seth and Seth's bed with Merlot red. Beautiful. Hey, I remember those days... but I've never puked all over someone. That's pretty pukey dude. Pukey Mcgee locked himself in the bathroom and puked up a storm and then took a long long shower. Poor  guy. Good luck with that hangover dude.

I remember a snakes and ladders game with shot glasses instead of game pieces, having a sip out of a bottle then someone saying Erin you're bleeding! I look at the bottle and I had chipped it by vigorous cheering and being overly jolly. Silly me.

We carried on with this merriment until the wee hours, and here's where it gets fuzzy. We are all piling into Lucas's car, who is stone cold sober and putting up with the tomfoolishness of a bunch of drunk-asses, and someone suggests we go to Oakland The Christmas Cowboy's and Charlene. We should have probably just gone home cause we go back there but I fell asleep on the bathroom floor and then my lovely husband took me to a bed, and I didn't wake up till one, when Matt went and got the truck and let me sleep. What a sweetie. So yeah, there was the real holiday piss up of the year. Good times for sure. I love all of you that were there with me. We sure are a rowdy bunch of crazy people,  I am lucky to have such fun friends.

So here are a couple shots from the party! Now everyone don't get all upset about the cigarette, I'm not back to smoking I just had a couple in the name of festivus. No biggie K?

 Me and my lady Charlene- girl you are a great friend and I am so happy we have become close pals! I am so glad you got the awesome glasses I picked out cause you rock those so hard. Fuck yeah my girl!

Showing off my riot gear 

From Left: Charlene the rockstar, Miss Kt Kat, and Oakland The Christmas Cowboy. Love you all!

So as you can imagine, I am nursing quite the hangover today and feeling that guilt for the over indulgence, as lately I have been super sober. I woke up in pain at one and went back to bed for the rest of the day. It did remind me why I shouldn't drink. Ah, tis the season.

Anyways, I am so compeletly wrecked and will need more sleep in order to work tomorrow, so I am off to bed. That's my weekend. I have a whole 7 days ahead of me full of more festive adventures.

-E.

Ode to friends

With the season of giving and boozing approaching, I thank Satan for my awesome friends. I feel like I have so many I'd like to shout out, but I'm gonna narrow it down to a few that support me everyday, love me for my tendency to be awkward and not care, they're never embarrassed to be seen with me even when I make the choice to eat space cookies and go to west edmonton mall, then proceed to act like an idiot- thank you Miss Karpetz- and still loved me the next day. Now that's friendship. So here is my holiday card to all of you- My Besties. (In no particular order.)

John Dixon
Dude, no words can express how much I need you as my token gay for LIFE. I love laughing with you and just being disgusting human beings in general together. Oh the times we have had. I love you for life my friend, let the good times roll, we rule!

Katie Karpetz
Katie, you are my oldest friend, we go all the way back to brownies. You have always been krazy katie and you are the only I know who can remember the details of a fight from 13 years ago. We are sisters in witchery and I would stick with you in a zombie apocalypse.

Jess Wright
I don't know if I ever told you this, but when I first met you I was totally intimidated! You are such a badass and such a beauty, and you make being a superwoman look effortless. If there was a zombie apocalypse I'd want you next to me,  you'd be a rad zombie slayer!

Mum
Last but not least! Mum, you are the coolest. You taught me so many things that made me the person I am today. I hope I can be as awesome mother to my children as you were to us, (even though I didn't always seem to appreciate you) I am sorry for being a beastly teenager! Meow! Kitty cat! Meow! Muthafuckin kitty cat!


Now there are many more of you that mean the world to me, and if you've been a part of my life in these last couple of years living through my ups and downs, thank you all for the good times and let them never end. I cannot wait to get totally drunk with you guys this Xmas maybe even smoke a reefer or twelve. I will appreciate this holiday season more than ever. I am grateful to all that are a part of it with me.

Wow that was totally corny but sometimes you gotta be! Love you all!!! Feliz Navidad!!! Hail Satan!

                                       Me and my witches                              

                             
Me and the best gay a girl could ever have, and Elaine too! Love ya girl!

                                                    Me and my hot mom! She taught me how to have style!

-E.