that I could never have you -- I knew that before you did
Well, I'm back from Connecticut and my (largely self-imposed) five-day exile from the internet. I don't know what it is about going home for the holidays, but somehow I can never seem to be bothered to go online at my parent's house. I could chalk it up to their maddeningly virus-prone and unreasonably slow computers, or to the fact that I enjoy my family's company and, while home, I feel have license to just hang around and watch movies and play with the dog. Its probably a combination of those things. If I missed any particularly startling developments on the internet while I was gone, please feel free to point them out to me.
I had a very good Christmas. From my perspective the whole thing happened rather suddenly. I guess I'm just used to being at home with my parents and having at least several weeks worth of build up. This year I drove to Connecticut only two days before the main event. I barely had time to get into a Christmas-y mood before it was time to prepare Christmas Eve dinner. Not that I was terribly involved this year. My family has established a tradition whereby the children cook for the parents on Christmas Eve, and I have for the most part snaked my way out of doing anything too involved by volunteering to prepare appetizers. This year I shifted those responsibilities almost entirely onto my baby sister, as I was busy wrangling some last-minute gift preparations (and accordingly running around like a chicken with its head cut off.)
Christmas wasn't too exciting gift-wise. I got a lot of clothes, which I needed and had asked for. But I didn't really get an exciting new toy for Christmas, which made me feel depressingly grown-up. Consequently I've found myself pricing new cell phones online. A new phone would be suitably gadget-like, at least enough to excite me briefly, and thus scratch that particular itch. Anyone care to weigh in on the Samsung vs. Sanyo debate? I have an LG that I've been happy with in the past, but their new phones don't seem to be comparably priced -- less bang for your buck, as it were. I'm currently thinking about a Sanyo, but mostly because I can get Sprint (yes, yes, I know I'm an idiot to continue using Sprint, that's a given) to basically buy me one for free.
After the unwrapping of presents Christmas morning my family didn't actually have to go anywhere for the first time in recent memory. Usually the grandparents are staying with us, and so we obligingly drive them to a massive family gathering. This year my grandmother wasn't feeling up to any overnight stays away from home, so the massive family gathering was held on the 26th in Needham, an easy day trip from Cape Cod where my grandparents reside. As a result my nuclear family mostly didn't even change out of their pajamas on Christmas day. We bid a sad farewell to my eldest sister and brother-in-law, who were off to visit his family, and then just lounged around and watched Love Actually, a Christmas movie even my father begrudgingly enjoys.
(Side note: serious congratulations to dippy423, the first person to really use my Love Actually inspired At Christmas You Tell The Truth pledge against me. She totally just stared me down the other night and asked me something point blank, thus necessitating that I say something I had otherwise decided against saying.)
I can hardly believe its Wednesday already; it feels like Monday, because this is my first day in the office this week. I'm psyched I only have to work three days this week, and four days next week. I'm feeling very refreshed emotionally. Distressingly I'm not doing quite as well physically; I got a lot of much-needed sleep and also a teeth-cleaning during my five day mini-break, but I also seem to have picked up a cold somewhere along the way. I blame thablueguy. Thus far its nothing too bad -- just a lot of irritating post-nasal drip and related symptoms. Here's hoping it gets better quickly, rather than progressing into something more inconvenient.
I had a very good Christmas. From my perspective the whole thing happened rather suddenly. I guess I'm just used to being at home with my parents and having at least several weeks worth of build up. This year I drove to Connecticut only two days before the main event. I barely had time to get into a Christmas-y mood before it was time to prepare Christmas Eve dinner. Not that I was terribly involved this year. My family has established a tradition whereby the children cook for the parents on Christmas Eve, and I have for the most part snaked my way out of doing anything too involved by volunteering to prepare appetizers. This year I shifted those responsibilities almost entirely onto my baby sister, as I was busy wrangling some last-minute gift preparations (and accordingly running around like a chicken with its head cut off.)
Christmas wasn't too exciting gift-wise. I got a lot of clothes, which I needed and had asked for. But I didn't really get an exciting new toy for Christmas, which made me feel depressingly grown-up. Consequently I've found myself pricing new cell phones online. A new phone would be suitably gadget-like, at least enough to excite me briefly, and thus scratch that particular itch. Anyone care to weigh in on the Samsung vs. Sanyo debate? I have an LG that I've been happy with in the past, but their new phones don't seem to be comparably priced -- less bang for your buck, as it were. I'm currently thinking about a Sanyo, but mostly because I can get Sprint (yes, yes, I know I'm an idiot to continue using Sprint, that's a given) to basically buy me one for free.
After the unwrapping of presents Christmas morning my family didn't actually have to go anywhere for the first time in recent memory. Usually the grandparents are staying with us, and so we obligingly drive them to a massive family gathering. This year my grandmother wasn't feeling up to any overnight stays away from home, so the massive family gathering was held on the 26th in Needham, an easy day trip from Cape Cod where my grandparents reside. As a result my nuclear family mostly didn't even change out of their pajamas on Christmas day. We bid a sad farewell to my eldest sister and brother-in-law, who were off to visit his family, and then just lounged around and watched Love Actually, a Christmas movie even my father begrudgingly enjoys.
(Side note: serious congratulations to dippy423, the first person to really use my Love Actually inspired At Christmas You Tell The Truth pledge against me. She totally just stared me down the other night and asked me something point blank, thus necessitating that I say something I had otherwise decided against saying.)
I can hardly believe its Wednesday already; it feels like Monday, because this is my first day in the office this week. I'm psyched I only have to work three days this week, and four days next week. I'm feeling very refreshed emotionally. Distressingly I'm not doing quite as well physically; I got a lot of much-needed sleep and also a teeth-cleaning during my five day mini-break, but I also seem to have picked up a cold somewhere along the way. I blame thablueguy. Thus far its nothing too bad -- just a lot of irritating post-nasal drip and related symptoms. Here's hoping it gets better quickly, rather than progressing into something more inconvenient.