Happy Holidays!
Dec. 25th, 2009 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
candylandGreetings! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kickin' Kwanzaa, Cherished Cthulu Day, and...as I read in a satirical newspaper sometime long ago, Happy Atheist Children Get Presents Day? *dodges thrown things*
Welcome to the snowiest Christmas on record for our area! It started on Wednesday night, dumped a few inches on us then--bad enough that I wound up not having to go in for my evening shift. Continued Thursday afternoon/evening, and was bad enough that most of the churches in the area canceled Christmas Eve (and presumably Christmas Day) masses. I have pictures of the snowdrifts around my house, but I haven't uploaded them yet, since they were taken with my NEW DIGITAL CAMERA and I haven't gotten the software installed yet :D
Last night was Christmas Eve, and at my house we like to do different things for Christmas Eve dinner. We used to do appetizers. We did deli meats and chips a couple of years, and last year we made homemade soup. This year we did FONDUE! We'd never done it before! We got salmon, shrimp, scallops, and steak, and cut 'em all up and turned on our new fondue pot to heat up the oil. It was fun! We were at the table for probably an hour and a half (we each got two skewers, so we could only cook two pieces at a time), but it was great! We laughed and talked and just relaxed. Definite success!
We also open a couple of presents on Christmas Eve--Bug and I open our ones to each other, and then we always get new jammies. This year, mine were all stripey! *admires the PJ pants I may or may not have been wearing for well over twenty-four hours now* And I got new fuzzy socks, so I may once again be KITTY-FEET! (kaitodoushi and raerae639 will get that joke, no one else will XD), and my sister got me a DS game that consists of a hundred and one mini-games. You will never see me again.
Also, Mom thought it would be amusing to get my sister and I matching shirts. As my sister put it, "What are we, twelve?" Didn't stop us from getting a picturethat will only make it onto this LJ if I black out my face first because OMFG the camera hates me so very very much bawwww ;o;
Today was a true White Christmas, with snow on the ground and more falling. Got the traditional candy and little gifts in our stockings, and then we maneuvered our way out to the living room where our tree is. Got some clothes, two Torchwood books (glee!), the new Legend of Zelda game for the DS (triple glee!), a Wii Fit (even more glee!), the aforementioned digital camera (it's blue! BLUE, I TELLS YA!), aaaaaand a new mp3 player (MASSIVE DANCES OF HAPPY)! I asked for an eight gig. Got sixteen. My parents are amazing :D
Also got the traditional onslaught of DVDs for the family, including the new Star Trek movie, which a couple of people have told me I need to watchand possibly write things for. If all goes well on Monday, I'll be back at the keyboard and in full fanfic mode come oh-one-oh-one-one-oh :D
It's still a snowy mess out there, bad enough that my sister (who was supposed to work tonight) called in for the first time in six years. She said that the person she talked to said that four other people had done the same. I can't blame them--it's awful. I have pictures to be posted eventually--one has my dad and the snowblower in the shot for reference.
Best moments from family conversation during the opening of presents? When we were opening our stockings, I pulled out a little bag of wrapped candies. It was labeled Santa's Sack.
ME: Santa's Sack? ...but there's only one.
BUG: That's his left one, ya know.
ME: His right one was lost in a tragic reindeer accident.
.........and then my sister had the exact same candy in her stocking XDD The other one was while we were opening under-the-tree presents. Both Mom and Bug got an external hard-drive. Here was the commentary that accompanied those presents...
BUG: *to Mom* Is your hard-drive red?
MOM: Yup.
BUG: ...like your blood!
DAD: Well, that was a weird thing to say.
BUG: *opens her hard-drive* Hey, mine's black!
DAD: ...like your SOUL!
ILU, family ♥ I also told my Aunt Marie that my dad was out mowing the driveway.
Tomorrow I am supposed to go to work. We'll see what the roads have to say about that.
But l'anyhoodle, thus ends my Christmas babble. I hope everyone had a glorious holiday and is warm and safe and happy. Much love to all of you!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ *runs around and hugs every single person on my f-list*
Welcome to the snowiest Christmas on record for our area! It started on Wednesday night, dumped a few inches on us then--bad enough that I wound up not having to go in for my evening shift. Continued Thursday afternoon/evening, and was bad enough that most of the churches in the area canceled Christmas Eve (and presumably Christmas Day) masses. I have pictures of the snowdrifts around my house, but I haven't uploaded them yet, since they were taken with my NEW DIGITAL CAMERA and I haven't gotten the software installed yet :D
Last night was Christmas Eve, and at my house we like to do different things for Christmas Eve dinner. We used to do appetizers. We did deli meats and chips a couple of years, and last year we made homemade soup. This year we did FONDUE! We'd never done it before! We got salmon, shrimp, scallops, and steak, and cut 'em all up and turned on our new fondue pot to heat up the oil. It was fun! We were at the table for probably an hour and a half (we each got two skewers, so we could only cook two pieces at a time), but it was great! We laughed and talked and just relaxed. Definite success!
We also open a couple of presents on Christmas Eve--Bug and I open our ones to each other, and then we always get new jammies. This year, mine were all stripey! *admires the PJ pants I may or may not have been wearing for well over twenty-four hours now* And I got new fuzzy socks, so I may once again be KITTY-FEET! (
kaitodoushi and raerae639 will get that joke, no one else will XD), and my sister got me a DS game that consists of a hundred and one mini-games. You will never see me again.Also, Mom thought it would be amusing to get my sister and I matching shirts. As my sister put it, "What are we, twelve?" Didn't stop us from getting a picture
Today was a true White Christmas, with snow on the ground and more falling. Got the traditional candy and little gifts in our stockings, and then we maneuvered our way out to the living room where our tree is. Got some clothes, two Torchwood books (glee!), the new Legend of Zelda game for the DS (triple glee!), a Wii Fit (even more glee!), the aforementioned digital camera (it's blue! BLUE, I TELLS YA!), aaaaaand a new mp3 player (MASSIVE DANCES OF HAPPY)! I asked for an eight gig. Got sixteen. My parents are amazing :D
Also got the traditional onslaught of DVDs for the family, including the new Star Trek movie, which a couple of people have told me I need to watch
It's still a snowy mess out there, bad enough that my sister (who was supposed to work tonight) called in for the first time in six years. She said that the person she talked to said that four other people had done the same. I can't blame them--it's awful. I have pictures to be posted eventually--one has my dad and the snowblower in the shot for reference.
Best moments from family conversation during the opening of presents? When we were opening our stockings, I pulled out a little bag of wrapped candies. It was labeled Santa's Sack.
ME: Santa's Sack? ...but there's only one.
BUG: That's his left one, ya know.
ME: His right one was lost in a tragic reindeer accident.
.........and then my sister had the exact same candy in her stocking XDD The other one was while we were opening under-the-tree presents. Both Mom and Bug got an external hard-drive. Here was the commentary that accompanied those presents...
BUG: *to Mom* Is your hard-drive red?
MOM: Yup.
BUG: ...like your blood!
DAD: Well, that was a weird thing to say.
BUG: *opens her hard-drive* Hey, mine's black!
DAD: ...like your SOUL!
ILU, family ♥ I also told my Aunt Marie that my dad was out mowing the driveway.
Tomorrow I am supposed to go to work. We'll see what the roads have to say about that.
But l'anyhoodle, thus ends my Christmas babble. I hope everyone had a glorious holiday and is warm and safe and happy. Much love to all of you!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ *runs around and hugs every single person on my f-list*