I'm baaaack!
Dear LJ!
I have a feeling this is going to be an interesting year! I might as well document the whole thing. Well since this is my first entry for the year. I might as well catchup from Xmas. OK, first things first. I couldn't leave the state for christmas. I swear those charges were bogus! Just kidding! My COMPUSA job won't let me vacation during the holidays. "They need me!" Yeah right....anyway. So la familia decides instead of doing the California thing with Janet and John (sister and hubby), or New-Orleans thing with Steve (bro), or (my choice) the NYC thing with la madre, they are all comming down to b-more for a second year in a row... Now if you don't know mi familia, You DO NOT want to host for 2 years in a row. With that being said, I sent out a disclaimer before the whole fiasco, 'cause damn if I'm gonna cater to 5 hungry Jatos, 1 or should i say two brigenshaws and 2 mattthews. So by the time #$%^ hit the fan, Moms, Janet and Gladys did all the hosting, planning, entertainment, etc. I did most of my shopping on the 24th. Don't hate! It's a Jato tradition! I find out moms came into town and went straight to the mall which is normal! Only we were both in the same mall for hours and didn't realize it till the next day. That would have been so funny if we ran into each other trying to "covert-shop". I had so many bags I could barely carry them and she must have made quite a few trips considering her gift-giving list was second only to Janet and John combined. but thats another story. So we were going to go pickup John, Janet and steve whos flights didn't land till almost midnight, but they steve would wait 30mins till janet and john got there then drive a rental back to the crib. These @#$% show up at nearly 2.am., all jetlagged and shtuff waking me up, demanding food, entertainment and conversation. DID I NOT PUT OUT A DISCLAIMER! Well good thing moms had cooked up a meal for them earlier and had me pickup some wine. Oh let me not get started on the wine. First off because John is a californian, last year he dissed my wine selection so I had to rep B-more to da fullest. So I top-shelfed the wine collection... Ok maybe not top, but mid-shelved it. Still close to $100 in wine alone is a budget. By now i'm up and all that, so we get the talking, eating and drinking and before we know it, its Christmas day and we haven't slept. Now when you have more than 5 guests, bathroom time is going to me an issue, but like I sez, I lives here so I proceeded to take me a loooong, soothing, relaxing, out-of-body experience hour bath. Damn near fell asleep in there. I had barely finished wrapping gifts in the basement when the the lady-of-my-life walked in. Then all hell broke loose...
I have a feeling this is going to be an interesting year! I might as well document the whole thing. Well since this is my first entry for the year. I might as well catchup from Xmas. OK, first things first. I couldn't leave the state for christmas. I swear those charges were bogus! Just kidding! My COMPUSA job won't let me vacation during the holidays. "They need me!" Yeah right....anyway. So la familia decides instead of doing the California thing with Janet and John (sister and hubby), or New-Orleans thing with Steve (bro), or (my choice) the NYC thing with la madre, they are all comming down to b-more for a second year in a row... Now if you don't know mi familia, You DO NOT want to host for 2 years in a row. With that being said, I sent out a disclaimer before the whole fiasco, 'cause damn if I'm gonna cater to 5 hungry Jatos, 1 or should i say two brigenshaws and 2 mattthews. So by the time #$%^ hit the fan, Moms, Janet and Gladys did all the hosting, planning, entertainment, etc. I did most of my shopping on the 24th. Don't hate! It's a Jato tradition! I find out moms came into town and went straight to the mall which is normal! Only we were both in the same mall for hours and didn't realize it till the next day. That would have been so funny if we ran into each other trying to "covert-shop". I had so many bags I could barely carry them and she must have made quite a few trips considering her gift-giving list was second only to Janet and John combined. but thats another story. So we were going to go pickup John, Janet and steve whos flights didn't land till almost midnight, but they steve would wait 30mins till janet and john got there then drive a rental back to the crib. These @#$% show up at nearly 2.am., all jetlagged and shtuff waking me up, demanding food, entertainment and conversation. DID I NOT PUT OUT A DISCLAIMER! Well good thing moms had cooked up a meal for them earlier and had me pickup some wine. Oh let me not get started on the wine. First off because John is a californian, last year he dissed my wine selection so I had to rep B-more to da fullest. So I top-shelfed the wine collection... Ok maybe not top, but mid-shelved it. Still close to $100 in wine alone is a budget. By now i'm up and all that, so we get the talking, eating and drinking and before we know it, its Christmas day and we haven't slept. Now when you have more than 5 guests, bathroom time is going to me an issue, but like I sez, I lives here so I proceeded to take me a loooong, soothing, relaxing, out-of-body experience hour bath. Damn near fell asleep in there. I had barely finished wrapping gifts in the basement when the the lady-of-my-life walked in. Then all hell broke loose...