Christmas is over in 15 minutes...
My Christmas
By Andrea Kirwan
Today I awoke and it was Christmas day....hooray, hooray!!! I ate sugar, because it is Christmas today! I had a cookie for breakfast. A piece of cookie from the cookie cake that Alison brought us. I saved it for two days. Will-power people, will-power. I had a cup of italian roast mixed with splenda, half & half, and fat-free hot chocolate. It was tasty.
I arrived at the Dingler's house after prying my cat off of my leg. His teeth were embedded in my calves and he was foaming at the mouth. Wilson REALLY acts out on Christmas you know....because it's Jesus' birthday. Once inside the Dingler's/Shearer's I am immediately in an alternate universe that consists of nothing but noise and alot of good food. I gave Katie's aunt and maw maw the same thing I give them every year...starbucks coffee. I swear this is the last year. Her aunt got me aromatherapy B&B works things, and her maw maw gave me $20. I find this to be extremely nice. They don't have to give me ANYTHING!!!! I am not even related in the true sense. That was too kind....but it did give me the warm fuzzies.
After consuming many plates of sweets and several cups of Kona coffee (why doesn't starbucks have that?) I felt like I was going to pass out. Then I realized it probably didn't have to do with how much I had been eating, but really is due to the fact that out of nowhere I had a gallon of snot suddenly impacted in my cavaties....nasal that is. Apparently the sickness that has been festering in my aching body and in my chest/throat, has now migrated upward into my cranial sinuses. A pity, such a pity to feel as such on Christmas.
Later on, I washed my dinner down with some more cookies and a bite of pie. Me and Katie's entire family, including her parents and grandmother, all squeezed on the sofa and watched Searching For Bobby Fischer. What a great movie...
I am now home and relieved to find that my house did not burn down while I was away. At the end of the night I suddenly had a sinking feeling that I had left a candle burning. Of all the things I have ruined in my life....my parents would think burning down the house was DEFINITELY the worse. This would be NOTHING compared to the time I climbed into the car at the age of 8 and put it in reverse. NOTE TO SELF: andrea, you cannot stop a moving vehicle with your own hands...even at the age of 22.
Now I am home and blowing my nose which is currently raw and chapped. I am going to go read a book called Christ in You, that Christy got for me and eat one last SWEET before it's back to the beach. I seriously feel as though I have gained 20 pounds today.
And there it is......MY CHRISTMAS. I hope yours was well and full of JOY!!!!!