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Dec. 27th, 2006 08:09 amMerry Christmas, a few days late. Also, happy belated birthday to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
capedcrusader92, who has the same birthday as my mother - ie, Christmas eve.
Christmas was a rather muted affair this year - my brother and his girlfriend went to Alabama to visit her side of the family, so we had to mail them their presents. It was weird to mail presents, since that meant that I had to wrap stuff before Christmas eve, which (due to my procrastinatory nature) never happens. Kind of sad, really - I found a neat present for him, and then proceeded to forget to mail it. So he'll get it next year, which is okay, but it's really cute. Anyway, we also didn't go to Ohio, which faithful readers will know is our usual thing. Our dog Larry has diabetes and is getting old, so we didn't really want to risk his life to go visit Grandma for Christmas...
But that was okay. We had Christmas eve dinner here, and roast beef with Yorkshire pudding (apparently a collapsed form of popovers), and Mom's birthday, with a hastily made cake. Then, presents the following morning. Then, we drove to Acworth, NH (there's nothing there, so don't feel bad if you haven't heard of it) to visit my aunt, uncle, cousin, and their three dogs and to have Christmas day dinner. We had turkey and stuffing, and Latvian kringel and cranberry pudding with a name that I couldn't pronounce if you paid me to, much less spell. (I take it back, it's apparently called "debess manna". In Google we trust...) Anyway, the whole meal was really good.
So it was just me and the parents and the dogs with my Christmas tree and ornaments from college (which isn't all that pathetic, considering the tree is 6' and has lots of ornaments), and it was nice and chill. I got a few neat things, including the first two seasons of Buffy (because I'm tired of borrowing it from people), the first season of Rome, ridiculously awesome socks, the collected comics of Tove Jansson's Moomins, a small and svelte digital camera, a couple of books, POTC2. Also a fantastic dragon scroll and black coat from my aunt and uncle.
Now, three days of work, and then the weekend and New Year's, and then I get to fly back to California.
capedcrusader92, who has the same birthday as my mother - ie, Christmas eve.Christmas was a rather muted affair this year - my brother and his girlfriend went to Alabama to visit her side of the family, so we had to mail them their presents. It was weird to mail presents, since that meant that I had to wrap stuff before Christmas eve, which (due to my procrastinatory nature) never happens. Kind of sad, really - I found a neat present for him, and then proceeded to forget to mail it. So he'll get it next year, which is okay, but it's really cute. Anyway, we also didn't go to Ohio, which faithful readers will know is our usual thing. Our dog Larry has diabetes and is getting old, so we didn't really want to risk his life to go visit Grandma for Christmas...
But that was okay. We had Christmas eve dinner here, and roast beef with Yorkshire pudding (apparently a collapsed form of popovers), and Mom's birthday, with a hastily made cake. Then, presents the following morning. Then, we drove to Acworth, NH (there's nothing there, so don't feel bad if you haven't heard of it) to visit my aunt, uncle, cousin, and their three dogs and to have Christmas day dinner. We had turkey and stuffing, and Latvian kringel and cranberry pudding with a name that I couldn't pronounce if you paid me to, much less spell. (I take it back, it's apparently called "debess manna". In Google we trust...) Anyway, the whole meal was really good.
So it was just me and the parents and the dogs with my Christmas tree and ornaments from college (which isn't all that pathetic, considering the tree is 6' and has lots of ornaments), and it was nice and chill. I got a few neat things, including the first two seasons of Buffy (because I'm tired of borrowing it from people), the first season of Rome, ridiculously awesome socks, the collected comics of Tove Jansson's Moomins, a small and svelte digital camera, a couple of books, POTC2. Also a fantastic dragon scroll and black coat from my aunt and uncle.
Now, three days of work, and then the weekend and New Year's, and then I get to fly back to California.
