Christmas 2008
Where did December go? How is Christmas already here and gone? 5 days until a whole new year.
This year was a pretty good Christmas. Didn't get to go home, but I spent it with friends and still had a great time.
I did most of my Christmas shopping early since I had to mail my parents their presents. Shopped for their presents first and shipped off the package last week. Finished the last of my shopping by Saturday so I could take my time wrapping everything (which is my favorite part). Actually, I think it took more time for me to find boxes for everything than it did to wrap them. Luckily I have a whole stash of boxes in my storage closet outside.
Had Wednesday off from work so I slept in and relaxed most of the day. Spent the evening hanging out at Simon and George's house. Kathy and Michelle came over, and two of Simon's friends. We watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. My first time seeing it, and it was hilarious. I'm sad that it took me this long to see it. Hung out for a while then went back home and picked up all the presents and headed to Yeny's place around 1:30am. Helped Yeny and KC put together photo frames and wrap presents for the morning. Finally went to bed around 4:30am, and we got up around 8:30am.
Yeny, KC and I headed off to KC's parents' house in Ocoee for a few hours, then we all went to Groveland to his grandparents' house for Christmas with the extended family. He has three cousins that are all around our age, and us "young'uns" hung out together most of the day. Everyone opened presents, then it was time for the big meal, which had some awesome food as always. The "old people" sat at the formal dining room table and us "kids" ate at the kitchen table. A few people napped after lunch... most of us sat around the living room and the porch half-asleep.
Eventually we cleared the tables and got some people together to play Apples to Apples, which i had recently aquired. Such a fun game! But playing with 10 people takes for-ever, especially if the older people don't get the idea right away. But it was still a lot of fun. We headed back to the apartment around 8pm and opened the last of the presents. I gave KC the classic edition of the board game Risk, which we played until I finally was half-passed out at the table by 2am. Finally went home and passed out in my bed.
Didn't get many presents this year, but I wasn't asking for or expecting very many anyway. My best present is a new couch and love seat for my living room from my parents. I will have to go pick them out soon. I can't wait to get rid of my old, itchy, lumpy floral couches!
Work today was pretty slow in the morning, and got really busy around mid-day, then slacked off again by the end of the night. All my customers were in much better moods than the ones I had the day after Thanksgiving, so that was good. Anyway, it's late and I have slept about 12 hours in the last 3 days so I'm off to bed. Hope everyone else had a great holiday as well, even if they just spent the holiday eating Chinese food and playing video games ;)
This year was a pretty good Christmas. Didn't get to go home, but I spent it with friends and still had a great time.
I did most of my Christmas shopping early since I had to mail my parents their presents. Shopped for their presents first and shipped off the package last week. Finished the last of my shopping by Saturday so I could take my time wrapping everything (which is my favorite part). Actually, I think it took more time for me to find boxes for everything than it did to wrap them. Luckily I have a whole stash of boxes in my storage closet outside.
Had Wednesday off from work so I slept in and relaxed most of the day. Spent the evening hanging out at Simon and George's house. Kathy and Michelle came over, and two of Simon's friends. We watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. My first time seeing it, and it was hilarious. I'm sad that it took me this long to see it. Hung out for a while then went back home and picked up all the presents and headed to Yeny's place around 1:30am. Helped Yeny and KC put together photo frames and wrap presents for the morning. Finally went to bed around 4:30am, and we got up around 8:30am.
Yeny, KC and I headed off to KC's parents' house in Ocoee for a few hours, then we all went to Groveland to his grandparents' house for Christmas with the extended family. He has three cousins that are all around our age, and us "young'uns" hung out together most of the day. Everyone opened presents, then it was time for the big meal, which had some awesome food as always. The "old people" sat at the formal dining room table and us "kids" ate at the kitchen table. A few people napped after lunch... most of us sat around the living room and the porch half-asleep.
Eventually we cleared the tables and got some people together to play Apples to Apples, which i had recently aquired. Such a fun game! But playing with 10 people takes for-ever, especially if the older people don't get the idea right away. But it was still a lot of fun. We headed back to the apartment around 8pm and opened the last of the presents. I gave KC the classic edition of the board game Risk, which we played until I finally was half-passed out at the table by 2am. Finally went home and passed out in my bed.
Didn't get many presents this year, but I wasn't asking for or expecting very many anyway. My best present is a new couch and love seat for my living room from my parents. I will have to go pick them out soon. I can't wait to get rid of my old, itchy, lumpy floral couches!
Work today was pretty slow in the morning, and got really busy around mid-day, then slacked off again by the end of the night. All my customers were in much better moods than the ones I had the day after Thanksgiving, so that was good. Anyway, it's late and I have slept about 12 hours in the last 3 days so I'm off to bed. Hope everyone else had a great holiday as well, even if they just spent the holiday eating Chinese food and playing video games ;)