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It's almost Christmas! Yay!
I spent most of the day in the kitchen making the cream cheese braids that we pass out (and eat!) every Christmas and doing stuff for dinner.
Allison's birthday is tomorrow, but we had her party tonight as opposed to the usual Christmas eve afternoon thing, and we're all disoriented now and keep thinking tomorrow is Christmas. I can't believe she'll be 20 in 2 hours. I already gave her her present-an iTrip. She was happy about it, but I'm going to have to teach her to put music on her iPod that she got last year first. But anyway, the new thing at family gatherings is trying to get me to drink, so one of the first things my aunt Mary Lou did when she got here was to inform me that my aunt Jeanine is bringing mimosas on Monday. I was like, "Oh? Maybe I'll have one..." Then, as soon as someone else walked in the room, she's all, "Sarah's going to have a mimosa at Christmas!" thoroughly embarrassing her own daughter. Ha! Lord. It's not that big a deal, but I guess it is since I'm the only legal "child" in the family, plus my family is just silly and makes a big deal out of everything. But hey, mimosas are good.
Oh yeah! We had some Lovely water damage for breakfast! We've had some plumbing issues, (pleasant, right?) and water was backing up behind our washing machine. So my dad, Mr. Fix-It, who really does know what he's doing most of the time, listened to his dad who told him to pour ACID!! down some pipe to clear it...I don't know what that did, but this morning my dad and Papa (his dad) were going to go to Sam's -and the two of them doing something like that together is completely random- and right before they were going to leave, my dad went downstairs and there was water all over the carpet in front of the bathroom and laundry room and inside both. Of course Papa heads down there ,and they have a nice exchange (by which I mean two simultaneous lectures) concerning the EXACT cause of this, what should be done, blah blah blah. That was fun and more drawn out than I care to write about, but people were called, and things were fixed and didn't cost a million dollars, so we can run water and what not. Yeah, that would have been a bummer.
I spent most of the day in the kitchen making the cream cheese braids that we pass out (and eat!) every Christmas and doing stuff for dinner.
Allison's birthday is tomorrow, but we had her party tonight as opposed to the usual Christmas eve afternoon thing, and we're all disoriented now and keep thinking tomorrow is Christmas. I can't believe she'll be 20 in 2 hours. I already gave her her present-an iTrip. She was happy about it, but I'm going to have to teach her to put music on her iPod that she got last year first. But anyway, the new thing at family gatherings is trying to get me to drink, so one of the first things my aunt Mary Lou did when she got here was to inform me that my aunt Jeanine is bringing mimosas on Monday. I was like, "Oh? Maybe I'll have one..." Then, as soon as someone else walked in the room, she's all, "Sarah's going to have a mimosa at Christmas!" thoroughly embarrassing her own daughter. Ha! Lord. It's not that big a deal, but I guess it is since I'm the only legal "child" in the family, plus my family is just silly and makes a big deal out of everything. But hey, mimosas are good.
Oh yeah! We had some Lovely water damage for breakfast! We've had some plumbing issues, (pleasant, right?) and water was backing up behind our washing machine. So my dad, Mr. Fix-It, who really does know what he's doing most of the time, listened to his dad who told him to pour ACID!! down some pipe to clear it...I don't know what that did, but this morning my dad and Papa (his dad) were going to go to Sam's -and the two of them doing something like that together is completely random- and right before they were going to leave, my dad went downstairs and there was water all over the carpet in front of the bathroom and laundry room and inside both. Of course Papa heads down there ,and they have a nice exchange (by which I mean two simultaneous lectures) concerning the EXACT cause of this, what should be done, blah blah blah. That was fun and more drawn out than I care to write about, but people were called, and things were fixed and didn't cost a million dollars, so we can run water and what not. Yeah, that would have been a bummer.