Dec 28, 2001 22:57
i haven't updated in a while cuz this computer we have at home is psychotic. seriously, i think it is possessed. the keyboard randomly stops typing and the only way to get it to go again (everything else works FINE) is to restart the computer, or very carefully unplug and re-plug in the keyboard to the main tower thing. i have to be really careful doing that cuz any movement of the wires makes the computer restart on it's own. i think the thing just wants to die and be put out of its misery. so anyway, if this gets posted and seems to end in a really odd way, like in the middle of a sentence or a word, you now know the cause.
Christmas was really great. alot better than i expected... i feel bad for saying that but. anyway. christmas eve taylor came over and we spent the evening together, then my family came home and we all opened gifts and things. it was really great. then christmas day karen, holly, and i went down to los lunas cuz our step brothers and step sisters were there at our grandparents. why? cuz my dad had to WORK ON CHRISTMAS if you can believe it, and he didn't want to have the other kids get to be with him and not us. so i guess that was ok, i wouldn't have really cared either way. but yeah, christmas day was nice, went on without any real tension between family. i was amazed at that; uncle jerry wasn't there of course (he's been slowly getting the surgeries...) but aunt gina was, with her boyfriend. everyone was cool about it, too, which i must give them all kudos for. aunt gina and uncle jerry's divorce hasn't been easy on anyone, especially their kids. kim is married so she and james were at his parents', but alysha came with gina which was really nice. so yeah, it was quite a day, but everyone seemed to be fine.
taylor's parents got me a gift certificate for barnes and noble. (KEYBOARD WENT PSYCHO HERE!) ugh. now it's caps-locking itself! weird thing. anyway so i got books today!! i love books. have i ever shared that? if i haven't, here you go: i love books. i don't even always read them... hahaha, but, i do mostly. the ones i got today i will, one is a read-thru-the-bible in a year, another is "the joyful Christian" by c.s. lewis, and the other is "all the women of the bible" by edith deen. all very kewl books.
speaking of books and c.s. lewis. the Lord of the Rings movie RAWKED!!! very kewl. most folks don't know that j.r.r. tolkien was a Christian, one of c.s. lewis' good friends even. i think one led the other to the Lord. so i laugh at the Christians who are all condemning of the movie and the books by j.r.r. tolkien. ok, they can slam harry potter all they want, i really don't care either way about all that. but don't dis on tolkien, darnit! be educated! anyway, i really loved the fellowship of the ring, it was way kewl. HATED the ending, well, i guess it was ok since it was suspenseful and left everything nice and open for the next movie. i am not happy about having to wait a year for it to come out, though! blarg. i'll just see this first one a million times till then.
dad LOVES j.r.r. tolkien. borderline obsessive here. his whole life he's loved the guy's work, so when they made the movie he was pretty ecstatic. some people who've read the books say the movie wasn't real accurate, so i'm gonna read them for myself to see.
we went out to see dad day before yesterday since he wasn't here for christmas. it was... interesting. i got wind from other family members that he has adopted the 4 kids, but he hasn't said anything to us about it. so i don't know. i didn't ask while we were there... no opportunity i guess. our time with dad was usually watching a movie with everyone else or something. things are so strange. even stranger, i don't hold resentment against dad or brenda or the kids at all. dude, they had it way worse than karen, holly, and i ever have. did i ever tell you that their dad beat them really bad (he broke brandy's leg when she was 2, and brenda had to have her spleen removed after one of his beatings), got thrown in jail for something or other, and then died shortly after he got out on parole. so... i'd say that my dad has really been a knight in shining armor for them. i can't help but feel though... like we "real" kids got replaced by the new family. they're with him more, they know him better, sometimes i think he likes them better. i'm sure it's not true, but... dad has always kinda been standoffish with us. things got really good between us and dad right before he got real serious with brenda. but... i think he's finally happy with life and things. even though his job pretty much consumes his life. not that he wants it to; he needs more employees to lessen his work schedule. *sigh* i wish i had words to really express how i feel about everything but i think if i did that right now i would just break down and cry, wishing that things were different... but they won't be, so i need to just accept things the way they are and be content.
gus, our bunny, has managed to eat half the tassles off the throw rug. what a weirdo. i've tried to take the stuff out of her mouth but i guess she's got a thing for yarn-like material. Lord only knows what it's done to her digestive system. :o)
i think mom is better now than she has been in years. she's been off of the bipolar meds for a while now, and is doing better than she ever was with them. and her walk with the Lord encourages me in mine and i love that.