It Came Upon A Doobie Brother
Click to viewOkay, I really like this song.
I'm going to start by saying how it's been a while. Like a really long while. Like dial up long.
My bad?
So yeah, a quickie unfortunately only b/c you know, I'm lazy and it is still Christmas. Right now mom is baking cookies for Enterprise, the car rental place, and she's watching her Filipino soaps. Dad is conked out on the bed next to me, Kuya is still on the floor in my room, and I'm in the living room watching on the small TV making out these tiny b-ball players (esp. my Orlando team) run back and forth. Good times.
I took vid and a couple of pics but I ended up giving them both to Kuya and dad respectively when it was my turn to open. This time, mom didn't immediately go into the "I hate Christmas" depression speech. She just nodded off, which sadly is the better option in this case. Dad got a couple of cards, a gift card to Outback Steakhouse, and a basket from his work mates and his vendors. Awesomeness. The basket has a Lindt chocolate box and that was my dibs.
Oh yeah.
Mom also bought us prezzies which was unusual since she has no income or savings. Apparently she opened Lola's card early and had some extra money. She bought dad cologne (for when he goes to work?) and some chocolate (for when he goes to work). Kuya has a new watch, which better work and not beep incessantly like his last one, and a Simpsons PJ's set. She also bought me a new watch (it's totally orange and HUGE...<3 it), 6 pairs of white socks (mainly b/c she knows most of my socks have holes), a pair of sleep pants, and a goldenrod shirt. Boos.
Me? Typically, I would have bought everyone a little something but I got nothing. I know what they all want and frankly Kuya's is the easiest and the cheapest to buy. I'm hoping for a job and I'll just make up for it on their birthdays.
Kuya and me also received $20 each from Lola and, in my card, a "finish school soon" message b/c she thinks I'm wasting time and such. Mom called her earlier and I did my usual greeting:
me: Hi Lola! Merry Christmas!
Lola: ...who is this?
me: -_-+ It's Nina.
Lola: Oh, yeah, Merry Christmas. I'm cooking right now.
me: Oh. Okay.
Lola: Yeah, your Ninong Deo is coming.
me: Okay.
Lola: So did you open your card yet?
me: Ah, actually we haven't opened presents yet.
Lola: Why not? It's Christmas!
me and Lola: ...
Lola: Is your mom there? I want to talk to her.
And that was as Hallmarky as it could get. When Kuya spoke with her, there was an actual conversation and an added, "I love you." Gah. W/e.
We also called Lola Nanay, our cousins and Popye but his was yesterday. Funny enough, he told me to enter into film competitions and that when I had a story, to come to the Philippines and "shoot the Filipinos".
LOL
Love him.
Oh! As for me, awesomeness from the SHU crew per usual.
Maria: Thanks for the socks. The awesome PURPLE socks. And for the container they came in as well. Also, B&N gift card, mucho love. Incredibly so. I'm pretty sure I peed a lil. The card? So sweet, thanks Maria! Last but not least, the Skull Candy ear clips, I love how you guys are so prepared for me to lose/destroy a pair.
Alyssa: The glittery card and the Target gift card. I'll endure the angry, so angry red to feed into my need to buy stuff.
Jenna: Thanks for being the first card I received! *prize music*
Steph, Tarra, and Kev: Thanks for the frame. Seriously. I haven't set it up yet b/c well, it's still in it's adorable shiny stage, and I don't want to put it in it's "uh, should it be smoking" phase.
Steph: Gee, where to begin. I love the apologetic note about the bra hooks on the box itself. And the copious amount of tape. Thanks for sending me parts of your tree. I almost felt threatened. Like you would send me more pieces of it if I didn't do something. Let's see, awesome Hello Kitty pens and diary/sticker set (all in purple!), purple Happy Bunny slippers which I am currently wearing, a purple tissue long sleeved shirt, a blinky snowman, a picture snow globe, the purple coin purse (with money!), the towels, the lotions, the 4GB SD card (0_0 so sweet), the choco chip cookies, the orange toffee chocolate, the coffee packet (my dad called dibs on it), the gingerbread men floating candles, the pic/music CD, the Kinkade card, the memory hanger (where all memories go to die...or something), odd little frame which has no recordable playing thingy so it's a big fat liar, and the random Norwalk Nicaraguan charity thingy (okay, I'l admit I'm a little confused with that one) but they're all great!
Thanks you guys really for making this year (at least halfway through it and so on) a whole heck of a lot better for me. You guys rock!
Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year. ~P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners
[I]t is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain "have fun." Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people around the earth thirst for its refreshment as the desert traveller for the oasis. ~D.D. Monroe