out with the old, in with the less old.
i suppose it's about that time again. time to update myself on what's happened in my life during the past few weeks so i don't forget. what with my mind slowly sinking into age induced mush and all. and so:
my best friend from high school flew into LA from Uganda to spend christmas with her fam. "Uganda! As in Africa?" you might ask. to which i'd answer "Why yes, the very same!" she's out there teaching and working with AIDS education, she's amazing. it was great to see her. i had breakfast with her and my other best friend from highschool, who, as it turns out, has lived about three blocks away from me ever since i moved to the city, OVER A YEAR AGO. funny how it took someone flying in from Uganda for us to have breakfast. so that was awesome. it's such an awesome feeling to not see someone for over a year and then to be able to talk to them like no time has passed at all.
then i went home for christmas. i had a great time. i ate like i had been dying of hunger all year long. i flew out of LAX, which is something i plan on doing NEVER EVER AGAIN FOR AS LONG AS I SHALL LIVE. words cannot express how craptacular that airport is. nobody knows where they're going or what they are supposed to be doing. it was a great laugh. thank god i had my tunes with me.
got home safely. hung out with the rents, had a blast with my brothers. then again, i wasn't expecting any different. i always have fun with my family. NM was colder than i ever remember. i think we got down to 3 or 4 degrees, which for some folks isn't that cold. but i felt like my bones where frozen solid and if i moved too fast they would shatter into a thousand icey shards, kinda like that guy on terminator 2, the one made out of liquid metal. but i digress.
i got to hang out with vaness for the first time in about six months. i miss her. we always have so much fun. christmas morning rocked, as it always does. just after "santa" makes his exit, my brothers and i creep into the living room and tentatively pick through what will soon be the carnage. it's probably the most exciting part of my whole year and we all start giggling like little school girls and then we wake up my parents. they moan and groan as if they just went to sleep! usually we're like, "um... why are you guys so tired?!" usually we have the big extended family get together a few days before christmas, but seeing as how alot of us grandkids now live out of state, christmas day was the only day we could all work out for this year. i love my family. very very much. but there is no time like christmas for you to truly realize just how strange they all are. strange in a comical way. and in certain instances they are strange in a sad and slightly depressing way. so yeah... the next day it was off to the airport so that my little bro and i could fly away. whilst there, my parents, my brothers and i cried like sissy's. especially my brothers. silly girls (sniff sniff) it's a good thing i'm around with my machismo to even things out... did i mention that we're insanely close? cause we are. and then i flew back to the lovely land of LA. so that was christmas. the most wonderful time of the year.
and then...
the new year was actually pretty mellow for me. i got off of work at about 5:30 and went home and chilled. got gussied up and hung out with some new buds for a while and had a pretty good time. went to the guys house where they were throwing a celebration and hung out with all my old buddies. rang in the new year pretty damn drunk. macmomma and i went to go get food, but all of our 24hour joints were closed for the holiday. how DARE they think of their employees and not their customers needs!! so we ended up actually driving back to our apartment and eating some of our food and then driving back to the guys house and celebrating for a while longer. had you been in the car, you would have burst something, we were laughing so hard. we both were happy to have broken personal streaks of drama filled new years moments. it was great. and that was new years.
so those were the holidays of 2004-2005. coming up next, our heroine gets herself in trouble for her perpetual tardiness and famecity gets herself a birthday! stay tuned.
my best friend from high school flew into LA from Uganda to spend christmas with her fam. "Uganda! As in Africa?" you might ask. to which i'd answer "Why yes, the very same!" she's out there teaching and working with AIDS education, she's amazing. it was great to see her. i had breakfast with her and my other best friend from highschool, who, as it turns out, has lived about three blocks away from me ever since i moved to the city, OVER A YEAR AGO. funny how it took someone flying in from Uganda for us to have breakfast. so that was awesome. it's such an awesome feeling to not see someone for over a year and then to be able to talk to them like no time has passed at all.
then i went home for christmas. i had a great time. i ate like i had been dying of hunger all year long. i flew out of LAX, which is something i plan on doing NEVER EVER AGAIN FOR AS LONG AS I SHALL LIVE. words cannot express how craptacular that airport is. nobody knows where they're going or what they are supposed to be doing. it was a great laugh. thank god i had my tunes with me.
got home safely. hung out with the rents, had a blast with my brothers. then again, i wasn't expecting any different. i always have fun with my family. NM was colder than i ever remember. i think we got down to 3 or 4 degrees, which for some folks isn't that cold. but i felt like my bones where frozen solid and if i moved too fast they would shatter into a thousand icey shards, kinda like that guy on terminator 2, the one made out of liquid metal. but i digress.
i got to hang out with vaness for the first time in about six months. i miss her. we always have so much fun. christmas morning rocked, as it always does. just after "santa" makes his exit, my brothers and i creep into the living room and tentatively pick through what will soon be the carnage. it's probably the most exciting part of my whole year and we all start giggling like little school girls and then we wake up my parents. they moan and groan as if they just went to sleep! usually we're like, "um... why are you guys so tired?!" usually we have the big extended family get together a few days before christmas, but seeing as how alot of us grandkids now live out of state, christmas day was the only day we could all work out for this year. i love my family. very very much. but there is no time like christmas for you to truly realize just how strange they all are. strange in a comical way. and in certain instances they are strange in a sad and slightly depressing way. so yeah... the next day it was off to the airport so that my little bro and i could fly away. whilst there, my parents, my brothers and i cried like sissy's. especially my brothers. silly girls (sniff sniff) it's a good thing i'm around with my machismo to even things out... did i mention that we're insanely close? cause we are. and then i flew back to the lovely land of LA. so that was christmas. the most wonderful time of the year.
and then...
the new year was actually pretty mellow for me. i got off of work at about 5:30 and went home and chilled. got gussied up and hung out with some new buds for a while and had a pretty good time. went to the guys house where they were throwing a celebration and hung out with all my old buddies. rang in the new year pretty damn drunk. macmomma and i went to go get food, but all of our 24hour joints were closed for the holiday. how DARE they think of their employees and not their customers needs!! so we ended up actually driving back to our apartment and eating some of our food and then driving back to the guys house and celebrating for a while longer. had you been in the car, you would have burst something, we were laughing so hard. we both were happy to have broken personal streaks of drama filled new years moments. it was great. and that was new years.
so those were the holidays of 2004-2005. coming up next, our heroine gets herself in trouble for her perpetual tardiness and famecity gets herself a birthday! stay tuned.