Better T-Give Than To Receive
I just had the best T-Give I've ever had. I spent it in Atlanta with friends, and I won a cheap-as-free award for "Most Unexpectedly Good Dish" because I'm able to cook Pineapple Casserole well enough to make people like me after one bite.
I stayed up late, played a whole hell of a lot of multiplayer Marvel Ultimate Alliance, bought one of my friends 'God of War,' stayed up all night with another to get to Best Buy first thing Black Friday (fruitlessly), and drove a third to the airport for a rental car to save his romantic getaway weekend.
I got to spend about an hour with several couples of my friends who are moving to other states/sides of the country. A little sad, but not surprising.
And I wondered for the billionth time what I want to do with my degree in the long-run. The answer seems to be stalling at "Well, make me an offer, and I'll use it for that."
Other than that, there were board games, pie, Guitar Hero 2, pie, introducing the household to Arrested Development, pie, pie, pie, and the invention of the term 'Richmas' (the new and improved name for Black Friday). Also, we had too much pie.
As far as travel goes, I was surprised at how easy it was to drive over 850 miles round-trip (incuding rides given). It was definitely easier on the way back, having my own music to listen to, rather than having to suffer through South Carolina's radio stations (either Christian-sing-along or only-Christmas-songs-until-Christmas). I will say that next time I will definitely take the day off work and leave first thing in the morning rather then run into rush hour traffic around Charlotte.
I was also informed that I am the most pessimistic person my friends know. This observation was shortly followed by their amazed comment that I apparently think ahead at least 3 steps in every conversation. I'm not sure how the latter happens, but I completely agree with the former. I'm so pessimistic that I play devil's advocate to my pessimistic friends just to show them the sad fact that they most likely won't even get the satisfaction of being right.
Sigh. Thanks, Mom.
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I stayed up late, played a whole hell of a lot of multiplayer Marvel Ultimate Alliance, bought one of my friends 'God of War,' stayed up all night with another to get to Best Buy first thing Black Friday (fruitlessly), and drove a third to the airport for a rental car to save his romantic getaway weekend.
I got to spend about an hour with several couples of my friends who are moving to other states/sides of the country. A little sad, but not surprising.
And I wondered for the billionth time what I want to do with my degree in the long-run. The answer seems to be stalling at "Well, make me an offer, and I'll use it for that."
Other than that, there were board games, pie, Guitar Hero 2, pie, introducing the household to Arrested Development, pie, pie, pie, and the invention of the term 'Richmas' (the new and improved name for Black Friday). Also, we had too much pie.
As far as travel goes, I was surprised at how easy it was to drive over 850 miles round-trip (incuding rides given). It was definitely easier on the way back, having my own music to listen to, rather than having to suffer through South Carolina's radio stations (either Christian-sing-along or only-Christmas-songs-until-Christmas). I will say that next time I will definitely take the day off work and leave first thing in the morning rather then run into rush hour traffic around Charlotte.
I was also informed that I am the most pessimistic person my friends know. This observation was shortly followed by their amazed comment that I apparently think ahead at least 3 steps in every conversation. I'm not sure how the latter happens, but I completely agree with the former. I'm so pessimistic that I play devil's advocate to my pessimistic friends just to show them the sad fact that they most likely won't even get the satisfaction of being right.
Sigh. Thanks, Mom.
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