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feeling: burned out
listening to: Family Guy
So much for my favorite holiday. For the first time, I never did find Christmas this year. But it kinda helps knowing I'm not the only one... seems like there may not have even been half as many decorated/lit homes and buildings around my hometown this year as in past years, and a lot of the relatives we visited in the past week said they just never got around to Christmas either. What went wrong this year?
The only thing I really enjoyed this year was hanging with Dumplin' and her brother at my dad's family's party... but theoretically, being that we're cousins, we could do that any time of the year, not just on the holidays. Plus, as the evening went on, even they seemed kinda... quiet, pensive, down, something like that. I hope I didn't rub off on them. -_- I guess seeing my nephew on Eve and Eve Eve was good too... but even he was a total bear when we saw him today. We're talking the most cheerful, ornery, good-natured 2 year old I've ever seen, spending Christmas day grouching and crying and screaming and throwing things around in disgust and refusing to even look at his presents, let alone open them. If that's not depressing, I don't know what is.
My parents spoiled me again this year, as did most of the rest of my family... my total Christmas haul: about $220, one of those 3-in-1 pocket digicams, 100 CD-Rs, some sort of tiny jewelry/trinket box, a crucifix necklace (the only jewelry this year - fortunate, because I don't wear jewelry), Snoopy Christmas T-shirt, some white shirt with a random cartoony pink bug on it, watercolors, a calendar, a stuffed white tiger in the same pose and style as the giant one I got a few years ago but about half the size, a little chibi version of the same white tiger along with an orange tiger and a leopard in the same style (the pantheon! *hugs Dumplin'*), a delicate-looking Chinese wall decor thingy, a mug that says Hero *glare*, an issue of Newtype with a promo DVD, a plain dark blue sweater, jeans in a size that might actually fit following all this skinnification, a [omitted because we got one for Dumplin' too but it hasn't come in yet], a Broken Miho poster, three different Whitman's candy samples with little Snoopy figures, this year's Snoopy Hallmark ornaments, Snoopy collectible chess and monopoly sets, Utena manga vol. 4, Utena Black Rose DVD box set, the Escaflowne movie (finally), the Love Hina Christmas special, Xena season 1 on DVD (yay parents :P)... and I think that's it. Dumplin', I didn't forget anything from Eve night, did I? >.> Oh, and grandma also gave me a little bowl of homemade honey mustard cause she asked for my opinion on it and I gave her a hearty thumbs up... heh
I could've slept pretty much through the afternoon today, but grandpa, Gaki, and Gakidaddy ended up coming by unannounced at, like, 10 a.m., even though grandma had told us the previous night that they probably wouldn't do so and they'd call if they decided they would. So I had to drag myself out of bed into their midst, and naturally Gakidaddy rode all over me for sleeping through half their visit, obnoxious irritating creature that he is. I swear, just being within throwing distance of him and/or his daughter makes me want to chew on drywall for a few hours.
So did I get everything I wanted? Yes and no. I didn't really want anything this year... but mom was demanding a list for weeks, so finally I threw one together that consisted of stuff I wouldn't mind having, but nothing I need or would give my right arm for or anything. Just ideas. However, there were a couple things I kind of expected - slim jewel cases, because I ran out and dad suggested it to half my relatives, and a PS2, because dad was talking about how he saw some on eBay for $118ish and he has a semi-obsessive habit of getting stuff from eBay... but I didn't get either of those. Meh. Jewel cases are cheap and I won't have much free time over these next 2 quarters for gaming anyway.
Christmas is over. Wa-freakin-hey. Now TV goes back to its regular schedule and I can sleep at night unhindered again.
...well, anyway, now TV goes back to its regular schedule.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 12/25/2003 11:56:00 PM
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