Comments | babyofthegroup: christmas come early

babyofthegroup

christmas come early

Dec 21, 2006 14:02

First: does MTV actually play music videos anymore? I mean, Thing2 (the baby brother) has been watching it for hours, and all I've seen is mindless "reality" television catering to his "dude, that was *sweet*" demographic. I guess they figured that music was too divisive ( Read more... )

and i'm the only one, my favorite work of art, the home front

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evilprettykitty December 21 2006, 19:14:30 UTC

Early in the morning, MTV plays videos...like 5 am. That's really the onlly time I watch it.

even though we are all aldults, we still open Christmas present in our PJs. My sister and her man even drive over in theirs.

babyofthegroup December 21 2006, 20:23:22 UTC

Wow. Either you get up really early for work, or you've been having insomnia. I don't think I've seen 5am in... years.

Man, I will be opening Christmas gifts in pajamas for *years*. Mostly because they're so comfortable, but still. ♥

evilprettykitty December 22 2006, 14:15:52 UTC

I get for work at 5, and am often up earlier cause I suck.

babyofthegroup December 22 2006, 17:20:18 UTC

Eek! I don't know if I could deal with getting to work at 5. Do they at least let you leave at a reasonable time?

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clumsygyrl December 21 2006, 19:17:04 UTC

Sixth: Tell me interesting and/or crazy things about your family at Christmas, either this year or in years past!

...the craziest thing? i ruined my mother's christmas party in 1979. by being born. haha.

hi! i am really lame at saying hi to people on lj. but uhm. yes. HI!

babyofthegroup December 21 2006, 20:25:35 UTC

Ahahahaha. AWESOME. My parents pretty much gave up going to parties for the... nine years between when I was born and when my baby brother was potty-trained.

hi!

clumsygyrl December 21 2006, 20:44:15 UTC

my mother has given up on nice things. between me [clumsy and accident prone], my brother [who tends to forget lots of dates, parties, etc.], and the dog [who is worse than i am.], she's figured it saves her money in the long run just to have the parties at other people's houses.

babyofthegroup December 22 2006, 17:41:54 UTC

Hee. I suspect that's what my parents did in recent years, given that the dog (before he died) was in all kinds of weird health and my brothers both played sports and thus left their athletic crap all over the house.

katlike December 21 2006, 19:21:14 UTC

THIS REMINDS ME.

Did I send you a promo shoot for Step Up? I seem to think I did, or that maybe you already had 'em.

babyofthegroup December 21 2006, 20:26:35 UTC

Um? I don't have it in my email. Unless it's in my Channing gallery, I don't have it.

And I think it goes without saying that I'd really LOVE it, so. ♥

phaballa December 21 2006, 19:28:37 UTC

MTV does not play videos. MTV Hits, however, plays ONLY videos, and I want it, bad. Instead we have MTV2, which also sucks too much to play videos, except late at night when it plays Headbanger's Ball. And then it's not new videos. Grrrr. Arrrgh.

My family is almost as insane as I am. We do weird shit on Christmas. When my grandmother was alive, we had this whole tradition of singing carols while she played the piano, reading the part about Mary and the manger from the bible, reading Night Before Christmas, and opening presents.

Now that she's dead, we can drink at family get togethers. She was an alcoholic, so we were booze-deprived before then. So now we mostly play euchre and talk trash and get drunk, and my uncles play the "who has the bigger dick" game using computers as metaphores.

babyofthegroup December 21 2006, 20:28:15 UTC

See, the point is moot for me, given that I have no cable at my apartment, but I was just surprised that a network that bills itself as "music" television had no music. ::hands::

Ahhh, family. :D

magickly December 21 2006, 19:35:57 UTC

Every single time you talk about Channing, my first thought is that you must be talking about Stockard Channing.

AHAHHA at your little brother maybe getting engaged. I would die if my little brother were getting engaged, mostly because he has, um, interesting taste in women.

You know the feast of St. Nicholas, the version where the kids put out their shoes at night on December 5th and I guess St. Nicholas puts gifts in their shoes? Before we moved, my mother played St. Nicholas for the neighbor kids across the street (it was arranged beforehand between her and the kids' mother) for something like 10 years. She'd go across the street and to their back porch and put the gifts there that the kids' mom had passed off to her earlier in the week, ring the jingle bells decoration that she'd taken off our side door and carried with her, and then run across the street back to our house while the kids would rush out to the back porch to see if they could see St. Nicholas. The neighbor kids never guessed and never caught her, and to this ( ... )

babyofthegroup December 21 2006, 20:31:23 UTC

*snerk* That would be funny, wouldn't it? I mean, I still think it's a funny name, but the hotass distracts me :D

Oh god, he'd BETTER NOT get engaged, because then I will have to use my Mad Skillz and run a background check on the girl to make sure she's not insane. He's far, far too young to be engaged, WTF.

Your mom = awesome. My mom still insists on hiding a gift apiece for me and my brothers and leaving 'clues' like "look under a flowerpot in the dining room" in a trail until we find our presents in, like, the freezer or the attic.