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| Tuesday, January 3, 2006 |
| Playing Catch-up |
The Week Leading to Christmas:
Haa haa haa I have all my Christmas shopping done. Yup last Saturday, that leaves me the whole week to wrap presents. Oddly enough I spent the week buying replacement decorations for my tree and house rather then last minute gifts. Thankfully the Michael's was having a 50% off sale on all Holiday decor, though the pickings on boxed ornaments was very slim I found four boxes of ornaments that looked good together. The only sad note about it, Melman's going to look very Metro-sexual . . . yes the colors are various shades of pinks and mauves. But the important part is that Melman looks great and Anna got to help pick out the decorations. And in preparation for next Christmas I now have two lovely plastic totes with red and green lids for all my Christmas stuff. So finding it should be a ton easier come next year. Oh and why is it that it's the last minute strand of lights you add to the tree, you know the ones you forgot to check before you wrapped them around tree limbs . . . why is it those ones that have the short in it?
Christmas Eve:
Though I didn't need to do any last minute shopping my little brother asked for a ride so that he could do his before heading to work. Well he and I never got a hold of each other because I got back home so late the night before [was off food shopping]. Well I called him for about 45 minutes that morning expecting to need an early start to go shopping and grab a promised lunch before getting him to work by 1:00pm. Come 11:00 I headed down to the shopping mall near his work, where I thought he was going to go shopping. Hoping to find him hopping from store to store, or at least heading to his favorite noodle bar for lunch I would find him and all would be good. Well 2 hours passed without a single sighting, Anna and I even had lunch at Zoa's in hopes he would come in. But no such luck, we headed back home once his clock in time for work passed.
Having spent aimless hours walking around a mall without being able to buy anything, and feeling rather bummed that I didn't get to hang-out with my little bro like I had planned I was rather tired when I finally got home. Popping in a video for Anna I told her that I was going to lay down for a nap, I set my alarm so that I would wake-up two hours later. Leaving plenty of time after I wrapped all my gifts to go pick-up Aaron from work. As timing is everything I had just crawled into bed, found the most comfortable position and was nearly in laa-laa land when my phone rang. Figuring it was my little brother checking in to find out what went wrong I picked up the phone without paying too much attention to the number. Besides knowing it was my area code. I was surprised to hear a male non-brotherly voice on the other line. It was Jeff, I guy I've spent a few hours talking with at the mall and had later invited over to my house so that I could introduce him to the Loverly Boondock Saints. He was calling to see if I had plans for Christmas Eve, if I didn't then maybe the two of us could watch a few Christmas movies. Well being a long standing single girl, given the option to spend an evening curled up on a couch next to a cute 6'-4" personal trainer who comes with a nice guy smell attached to him or picking up my little brother from work . . . ok in all honesty it was a hard decision. I love picking up my little brother from work, I always have a ton of fun chatting or better listening to him on the ride home. But having a slash against him from last weekend, and the offer from my older brother to pick him up on his way back from the in-laws I decided to take him up on his offer.
We watched Family Man and Christmas with the Kranks, then he even helped me put together my daughter's bike. A bike which came with Zero instructions, well the instructions that came with it told you how to piece together the parts already assembled . . . didn't tell you anything about putting the big pieces together. And this is a little girl's princess bike so there are accessories that need to be figured-out. It took a little longer then planned but we got it together without fearing it would fall apart once my daughter sat on it. Oh by the way she was still up while we were doing this. She was hiding in her room watching movies until it was WAY too late. Jeff didn't go home until after Midnight. Oh did I mention he brought a plate full of cookies and treats that his mom made? Three kinds of bread people, I had banana, Zucchini and homemade carrot cake all to myself along with an array of treats. There was a lot of chatting, a little teasing and a great big hug when we said good-bye. All in all it was a cool evening, a nice way to start out the day.
Christmas:
I'm happy to say that my daughter didn't open her presents while I was sleeping. This is the first year that's she's really grasped the concept of Christmas. And even did the bit where she asks if it's Christmas yet, and then tries to convince me thru a long chain of "Yes it Is" that it was Christmas. Well she got to open her bike, well it was reveled to her when I drew back the blinds so that she could see the surprise waiting for her on the porch. Well we both put shoes on, and made sure our robes were secured tightly around our jammas before we went for a bike ride around our apartment building. Biking is still a new concept to her so it'll take her a few rides till she feels secure enough with being able to stop the bike without bailing out.
With our other presents gathered and put into the car, as well as everything needed to make deviled eggs and fruit salad we drove over to my parent's house to spend the day. Oh did you notice I didn't mention anything about bringing a change of clothes, it's cause I didn't. Anna and I had every intention of spending the whole day in out pj's. Perhaps I should explain this to you, my brother, sister and Mom all have to work today. Which means gifts will be done at night, it's against all things Christmas to open gifts not in pj's. Well the good news is that My mom was put on call, which meant she was home all day. My little brother spent most of his time in the kitchen making dinner (Prime Rib, mashed potatoes, stuffing, etc). Jeremy and Taysia were due home around 3:30 so we'd eat around 4:00. My mom gave each of us a gift in the morning, to hold us over till that evening. My gift was Gilmore Girls Season 3, which I began watching right away as I ate a Cinnamon roll. It was about 11:00am when I started feeling crapy. Only ate half of my beloved homemade cinnamon roll . . . then the headache set in . . . then I was hot, only to find myself freezing the next minute. Oh did I mention my dad got sick on Thursday? Ya he was wrapped up on the second couch hacking up a lung now and then.
So in short I made about half of the deviled eggs I had planned and completely axed the fruit salad. Dinner was great, very yummy even though it didn't take a ton to fill me up. I was taking anti-headache pain medication every 4 hours on the dot to keep the threatening pain at bay. Opening gifts was fun, even if it was a little crazy. I got tears out of my mom from my gift, a nice bonus. And I think everyone enjoyed their gifts from me, at least I can hope they did. I got wonderful gifts from everyone. I really fun game from Taysia and Jeremy, cool how to draw Anime and Chibi's from my little brother and a cute Furby from my daughter. My parents were wonderful with their gifts and luckily everything fit in my car without having to strap my daughter to the hood. I called it an early night after one round of Seen It, which Melanie and I won with great skill.Labels: Life |
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