The Holiday Update
My Christmas went well, in the sense that I got everything I wanted ^^
I got my Snakecharm book, my Megatokyo book, my Guilty Pleasures book, my Mira, Mirror book, etc...I asked for a lot of books this year. I also got all four CDs I wanted: Avril Lavigne, Greenday, Lost Prophets, and Finger Eleven. My cousin Jana also let me copy her new Nickelback CD. And I got some of the DVDs I wanted too...Mean Girls, Love Actually, and Gargoyles: Season One!!! WH007!!! I've already watched the Gargoyles DVD....my gods, I forgot exactly just how enjoyable that show could be.
Some stuff I didn't ask for but am loving all the same is a new set a pajamas, a T-shirt from Tommy's, my fav local restaurant, and a board game called Othello.
Basically the past few days have been a repetitive process of me getting dragged over to Grandma's, because apparantly our relatives can't just be there by themselves. I've been reading most of the time I've over there, because me and my cousins doon't have much in common. I've finished some of my new books and some of my library books, and my English reading as well. I've been playing Othello with my relatives when forced into interaction.
Aunt Judy and Uncle Don arrived as planned the other night. Grandma, of course, did not seem very surprised. Dad did his best to let Uncle Don know he was mad at him without actually being uncivil in front of the others.
I've gone to see Series of Unfortunate Events with Jana and Uncle Dale, with minimal disappointment. It was still a good movie though...books are much better, though. I also went to the Art Museum with Mom and Aunt Judy. They had a display of statues and stuff from the court of Burgandy, and also a small exhibition of Japanese screens.
We looked at that and then quickly showed Aunt Judy some of our more famous paintings (versus walking through the whole museum, because that could take awhile). We've got a Monet, some Van Gogh, a couple Picasso...a lot of older art too (I remember when I was a kid and didn't know how to recognize the more famous styles by sight, and I thought our museum didn't have any of the "famous" artists in it...I was plesantly surprised when I became old enough to know better).
We also went through our modern art wing, which I'm not a big fan of...we've got a Jackson Pollack and an Andy Warhol, but most of our modern stuff is of the more "minimalistic" approach, ie big red canvas with three diffrent colored dots crammed into one corner, which is somehow supposed to represent emotional turmoil. Or something. One of our pieces is literally just a big canvas painted eggshell white with really thin blue lines sketched across. It's supposed to have something to do with an approach to space and our environment. Everyone I've talked too (myself included) thinks it just looks like you blew some graphpaper up a squillion times.
I've also been working on my Van Helsing fic...I think I'll be able to finish it before school starts again. I've only got like two scenes left to write, at least.
Today I'll probably work on the two papers I need to do. Maybe one today and the other tomorrow? I'm getting dragged back over to Grandma's for the dinner (the North Carolina relatives left yesterday but the Arizona ones are still here) tonight, but I should have some time tomorrow before my New Year's sleepover...
I got my Snakecharm book, my Megatokyo book, my Guilty Pleasures book, my Mira, Mirror book, etc...I asked for a lot of books this year. I also got all four CDs I wanted: Avril Lavigne, Greenday, Lost Prophets, and Finger Eleven. My cousin Jana also let me copy her new Nickelback CD. And I got some of the DVDs I wanted too...Mean Girls, Love Actually, and Gargoyles: Season One!!! WH007!!! I've already watched the Gargoyles DVD....my gods, I forgot exactly just how enjoyable that show could be.
Some stuff I didn't ask for but am loving all the same is a new set a pajamas, a T-shirt from Tommy's, my fav local restaurant, and a board game called Othello.
Basically the past few days have been a repetitive process of me getting dragged over to Grandma's, because apparantly our relatives can't just be there by themselves. I've been reading most of the time I've over there, because me and my cousins doon't have much in common. I've finished some of my new books and some of my library books, and my English reading as well. I've been playing Othello with my relatives when forced into interaction.
Aunt Judy and Uncle Don arrived as planned the other night. Grandma, of course, did not seem very surprised. Dad did his best to let Uncle Don know he was mad at him without actually being uncivil in front of the others.
I've gone to see Series of Unfortunate Events with Jana and Uncle Dale, with minimal disappointment. It was still a good movie though...books are much better, though. I also went to the Art Museum with Mom and Aunt Judy. They had a display of statues and stuff from the court of Burgandy, and also a small exhibition of Japanese screens.
We looked at that and then quickly showed Aunt Judy some of our more famous paintings (versus walking through the whole museum, because that could take awhile). We've got a Monet, some Van Gogh, a couple Picasso...a lot of older art too (I remember when I was a kid and didn't know how to recognize the more famous styles by sight, and I thought our museum didn't have any of the "famous" artists in it...I was plesantly surprised when I became old enough to know better).
We also went through our modern art wing, which I'm not a big fan of...we've got a Jackson Pollack and an Andy Warhol, but most of our modern stuff is of the more "minimalistic" approach, ie big red canvas with three diffrent colored dots crammed into one corner, which is somehow supposed to represent emotional turmoil. Or something. One of our pieces is literally just a big canvas painted eggshell white with really thin blue lines sketched across. It's supposed to have something to do with an approach to space and our environment. Everyone I've talked too (myself included) thinks it just looks like you blew some graphpaper up a squillion times.
I've also been working on my Van Helsing fic...I think I'll be able to finish it before school starts again. I've only got like two scenes left to write, at least.
Today I'll probably work on the two papers I need to do. Maybe one today and the other tomorrow? I'm getting dragged back over to Grandma's for the dinner (the North Carolina relatives left yesterday but the Arizona ones are still here) tonight, but I should have some time tomorrow before my New Year's sleepover...