Celebrating the Season

Merry Christmas everyone!!

I thought it'd be a nice time to update a little. So the 22nd and 23rd I didn't feel well at all. In fact, all day the 23rd I slept. I couldn't keep my eyes open for longer than 10 minutes. Luckily I was feeling a lot better Christmas eve and day. A little tired but not too bad. :)

Christmas eve at about 2 oclock I went to my parents house and my aunts and uncles and cousins started coming over. Lots of food (not a formal dinner or anything, but lots of good munchiness.) My cousin, her husband, my uncle and I played a new card game. Anyone ever heard of "Up the river, down the river"? I guess it's a little like pinochle. At like 530 or so we opened presents. Got new gloves, a vanilla oil scented thingie and $50! It was good to see all the family. There was at one time 22 people in that tiny house. I still don't know how we all fit.

Christmas Day, I woke up at 4am. I don't know why, it was annoying and I couldn't get back to sleep. Well, at 11, my sister and I went back to my parents house. Two of my cousins came over at 11 too. My parents are raising their younger brother, so in a way my parents are their secondary parents. (Unfortunately both of their parents have passed away in the last two years.) So, it was a MUCH smaller crowd Christmas morning. My oldest brother was spending the morning down at his girlfriends, so we ended up Skype-ing him at one point. It was kinda fun! There was a TON of food today too, but that's because it was the left overs from the night before. haha I think my parents still have a giant bowl of pasta salad and half a pyrex dish of taco dip.

Well, then we opened presents. The way my family does it is one to two presents are opened at a time and everyone watches and we oogle and ogle a bit over what they got before the next ones are handed out. Part of the joy of Christmas for me is being able to see what others get. I haven't purchased Christmas presents in several years, unfortunately, but I still love to see what others get. My grandma got a nice footstool from my brother. I received 19 pairs of very colorful socks. hahaha some are fuzzy, some are ankle socks, but they are all very easy to mix and match. My brother got me a pillow. But not just an ordinary pillow, one that you can plug an mp3 player into and have music come through the pillow to lull you to sleep. (Now I just need an mp3 player...) I also received two scarves, a hat, some feminine clothing.... a new sweater AND a Dick's t-shirt. (For those that aren't from Seattle, Dick's is a burger joint here, very iconic, good, and you have to have a tshirt! All the cool kids do anyway.) I got a weird dog back scrub loofa thing. It's hard to describe. I think that's it... Anyhow, pretty cool.

After all that excitement, my sister and I just hung around the folks place all day. We spent most of our time on my parents bed. I know that sounds weird, but it's the most comfortable place in the house. We watched a cheesy hallmark christmas movie and a holiday tv special thing, also some basketball and football was watched of course. :) Plus the whole time I was in there, I got to cuddle with one of my cats.

Oh my grandma got my mom a brand new printer for her computer. She was so excited about that because hers has been stupid for far too long. I already have a project in mind once it's set up.

So, it was a very good Christmas and I loved being able to spend lots of time with so much of my family. I hope you all had a great holiday season as well. :) Next up, my birthday!!! Ok, that's still a few weeks away, but still.....