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Saturday, December 27, 2003
Christmas... Merry Christmas! Two days late... As I assume is the case for most people, the holidays have been a little crazy for me. All the added stresses of how you're going to get home, for how long, what gifts you're going to get for whom, who you'll have time to see, how many "Merry Christmas" phone calls you can make ON Christmas, etc., etc., etc. plagued me for the last week. Actually, its kind of funny, because Christmas really wasn't even on my radar until the weekend before when I went to a friend's party. One of the guests had kids who go between two parents for the holidays and so they were exchanging gifts THAT weekend because it was the last time they'd see eachother before the holidays. And I remember hearing this, my stomach jumping into my throat, and thinking, "Holy shit, it's almost Christmas!" I hadn't done a lick of shopping and I hadn't even figured out when I was going home. I had five days and counting. Shopping this year was really funny. The only time I had was during the evenings, and so I had coordinated with a friend to go with her. We got to the store an hour before they closed... spent the entire hour in the store and finished almost all my shopping. The cart was literally overflowing with stuff for friends and family and my new apartment. :-) We got to the counter and they ran my debit card only to find out that their card machines had gone down. And me without cash. All that shopping... hurrying, and I had to leave an entire cartful of stuff at the counter to come back for the next day. I just felt so UN-accomplished. I didn't have anything to take home for my whole night of marathon shopping! Then we swung over to Target to get a secret santa gift (it was the only thing I NEEDED before the next day)... I bought this cool picture frame... only to get it home and start wrapping it... and realized it was busted. And I definitely would have no time the next day to return it and/or get something else. I ended up not participating in the secret santa extravaganza. Ugh. My holiday spirit was starting to fade. But I DID have a christmas tree this year. Lauren IM'd me asking if my apartment was unlocked. Of course this strange question had me a little freaked out. I said, "No, it's definitely locked." She asked a few more strange questions about the location of my couch and if we could go hang out at my place... she NEVER just asks to hang out at my place so I thought this odd. But I agreed, she picked me up from the cafe... and she surprised me with a christmas tree. Well... a half of a christmas tree. Seems her neighbor had bought a tree that was too big... had cut off the top and donated the bottom half of it to her out of the kindness of his heart. So we literally put up the ass-end of a christmas tree in my living room. She even brought ornaments and a christmas album (which I quickly switched for my favorite xmas album, RuPaul's HO HO HO with such classics as "RuPaul the Red-Nosed Drag Queen" and "All I Want For Christmas is Liposuction."). My favorite was when Lauren took a few ornaments of what I thought were boats out of the bag and started laughing hysterically. She said, "I never quite appreciated these ornaments until I hung them on YOUR tree." The boats were actually "Ferries" which said, "Washington State Ferries" in bold white letters on the side. We both had a good laugh at that pun. I went home to Rochester to see my mom, my brother and his girlfriend and my two nephews... Jason who is a little over 3 now, and Jordan who is just 3 months. What a great time I had with all of them! Jordan was tough to play with being so little and wanting to sleep all the time, but I got to spend all kinds of quality time with Jason. He kept calling to me, wouldn't let me out of his sight. If I walked out of the room I'd hear him yell, "Where is Shane!?" And then I'd peek back into the room and say, "Right Here Buddy." And he'd run up to me and say, "OK!" It was such a treat Christmas morning when he was unwrapping gifts, I got him some old-school favorites of mine... lincoln logs, a ball and glove, and letter blocks... as soon as he opened them he wanted to play and passed on opening the rest of his gifts. I was so glad that he didn't put them aside in favor of the noise-making plastic gifts everyone else got him. There's hope for him yet. :-) And then I did some after-Christmas shopping with Cheri and her momat Eastview Mall. What a trip that was... shopping, punctuated by random stops to eat (Yummy chinese at P.F. Chang's for lunch and Glenwood Pines on the way home) and play games (Skee-Ball, pinball, and some arcade version of bowling). Cheri and her mom are very competitive. Playing games with them went something like this, one game... followed by Cheri's mom saying that she wanted to play another cause one wasn't enough... and if someone different won the second game then you had to play a playoff round for best two out of three. :-) Too much fun. :-) I also saw Mona Lisa Smile somewhere in there which I really liked and I'll write more about later... I plan on having a pretty low-key weekend... Until I get to blog some more... I hope your holidays are fantastic!! | private feedback | |
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